Carl-Richard

Yup, nihilism from psychedelic trips is simply the inability to distinguish relative from absolute. It's a weakness of intellect. "Yeah nothing matters", so what you going to do now? Lay down and die? No, you keep on living in the dream.

How do you choose whether you go left or right on the street?

Why fish eggs expensive but chicken eggs not? 🤔

Say there is a reality beyond language, but it can't be spoken of. And because it can't be spoken of, you can't present it as a perspective that differs from any other perspective, so therefore it is not a perspective and it is absolute.

I thought you would mention a flamethrower but ok.

Being is baseline, absolute truth. Meaning is what you do with it. Many people sometimes conflate meaning (relative truth) with absolute truth. "It makes sense". That's meaning. Conceptual truth, factual truth, analytic truth, is at first post meaning made up in your head. It might reflect an underlying structure that can be postulated to be outside your head, but that is also meaning in so far it is not simply being. The thing postulated to be outside your head, for it to be being, must also include the inside of your head, and everything that can possibly exist.

Depends on what you want. If letting go is what you want, it's definitely ideal.

An organism that can't move (by its own accord) is by definition ill. Humans just have a projected mental space of this dynamic called depression. If you get hurt and for example break a limb, you will experience a form of depression, because you can't move like you used to. And when you move and it causes pain, that restricts the movement and keeps you in a state of low mood and low energy to avoid that pain. Pain, low mood, low energy, depression, they are all a part of the same system. And of course, when ill or hurt, the body wants to stay still so it can heal (there is an evolutionary pressure for that), so that also feeds into the system above, increasing pain sensitivity, pain from fever, pain from inflammation (inflammation is an immune signal), etc. Notice also in depression, it's not just your body that slows down in its movement, it's your mind. Your cognitive abilities, your working memory, your IQ, your ability to see connections, tanks. Notice also when you're truly sick, especially with the flu, you can notice your "circle of concern" diminishes severely (every goal you have that is not about staying put and healing gets distinctly removed from your mind). It's like you could be working on the most exciting and meaningful project and then you get the flu and suddenly you forget all about it (I've experienced this and it's quite palpable). And of course, meaning and excitement are dopaminergically mediated, and dopamine is the neurochemical of movement (cognitive and physically).

No.

The only woman I've talked spirituality to in real life is my mom lol (maybe it's genetic after all). But I don't exactly push the conversation often either (I don't go around expecting people to be interested in it). And I don't exactly talk to many women either I have talked to like 2-3 guys who know what awakening and/or meditation (and the various states that are possible) is. But I can understand your position. It would be very nice to have someone on that level. Talking to my mom about my experiences (and she being open and actually understanding) was one the most beautiful experiences I've had, it brought me right back into that mind space. Actually, there was one girl at a party once where we had this intense conversation where I managed to drop so many non-dual hints in the normal conversation like "but everything is connected to everything else anyway, so" and she was like "yeeessss, everything is connected to everything else 🤯". And ironically, we were in a way connected after that because she started going to the same gym as me in another town.

I pocket called my mom while on MDMA. The rest of the story is a secret

Watching trippy visuals on a blurry 240p YouTube video through a small laptop computer monitor when tripping can only be described as going to a gas station ice cream truck when you're in Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. Or having sex with a plastic grocery bag as a condom. Idk.

No melancholic music enjoyers? Opeth - Damnation album, King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King album, most of Radiohead's - OK Computer album, every Porcupine Tree album, most of Pink Floyd's - Meddle album (only prog rock albums apparently). Nothing like sitting in the back of a car when it's raining and listening to that on headphones and looking out the window. Or crawling under the bed sheets when falling asleep.

Decapitated somehow manages to play technical death metal but without sounding robotic like many other such bands do and while having catchy, heavy and groovy riffs and incredibly heavy sound production. It's really neat:

You're being ironically quite religious in your approach to this discussion. I think it would be interesting to know why the DSM-5 or ICD-11 don't want to label it as an addiction (yet). Besides, what do you do when somebody like Dr. K makes a video explaining what addiction is as a general phenomena? Would you be like "hey, slow down there, are you not going to list the entire addiction category in the DSM-5 there, Mr. Harvard-trained medical doctor?". I don't think so. Huh The porn industry? Where there is money there is lobbying.

Too hard music, don't let me bring up the band names about human anatomy.

Is L-tryptophan bad? Is 5-HTP bad? Is fluoxetine bad? Is MDMA bad? It's all a spectrum. If eating too much turkey makes you have serotonin syndrome, then maybe L-tryptophan is bad.

What are their arguments? Or is it simply "not enough evidence to conclude, so we side with the lobbyists until we're obviously behind all other classification systems"? ICD-11 has "gaming disorder" as a form of addiction. Classification systems are generally slow at recognizing new disorders/addictions. Gambling addiction (not gaming) only became recognized in 2013 in DSM-5 and in 2019 in ICD-11. Whether you want to go by general definitions or by specific definitions from slow-moving institutional entities, it's up to you. And at the end of the day, some can engage in a behavior that can lead to an institutionally recognized addiction and not be addicted while others can't (e.g. hardcore drugs). And it would not be unwise to expect the opposite can be true (i.e. you can be addicted to something that is not institutionally recognized to cause addiction). It's always an individual thing.

You just haven't heard local Norwegian rappers from Ørsta/Volda rapping about fjords and the beautiful mountains and biking on acid.

Conspiracy theorists are taking a huge blow after the evolution of AI generated images and videos. They actually have to doubt everything they see, and therefore their narratives weaken. A good example is claims of cloning.

Essentially self-determination theory and its neurological and psychological correlates. As feelings of control decrease, the neurology associated with control also weakens (and systems assessing goal discrepancies, i.e. anxiety, worry, rumination, which positive side is creativity, become hyperactivated).

I might have slightly misremembered the data. There is data that says most convicted child molesters are not pedophiles, they are simply sociopaths on a power trip (which is actually consistent with some of @Cred's reasoning). But are most pedophiles child molesters (convicted or unconvicted)? Maybe harder to pinpoint. But even there, the data seems to indicate that most pedophiles are not child molesters (but again, harder to pinpoint). I think I remember reading some statistics in a psych book about this but I would have to dig to find it.

1. You're describing having a moral perspective on pedophilia, not merely being sexually attracted to children. It's hard to pin down the data exactly, but the data says probably most pedophilies don't act it out, probably because they know it's not morally or socially acceptable. 2. You're describing being in a relationship with a child as pedophilia, not merely being attracted to them sexually. This is like saying you're gay if you want to marry men but not sleep with them on a one night stand. In other words, most pedophiles are not amoral sociopaths, and most pedophiles are probably not in a relationship with a child (i.e. child molesters). You had bad luck running into this forum with all the (ex-) Mr. Girl fans. We know pedophilia inside and out 🙂 (but we're not pedophiles 🙂 ... but it's a spectrum anyway 🙂). You would actually benefit from watching Mr. Girl's discussions with Destiny from back in the day where they discuss psychology, relationships, mental illnesses, etc. I think it would get you to question your DSM-5-heavy framework. Mr. Girl is actually a genius (or that was at least my impression 5 or so years ago, and granted he has a mountainous "self", which is subtle but still massive when you spot it). Also, a curious clash of worlds: Mr. Girl was one of the most vocal public people around Dr. K's therapeutic misconduct and reported him to the Massachusetts medical board along with a few other people, and eventually, Dr. K got a reprimand on his license.

Perseverance is the #1 Stage Red virtue (probably hyperbole, but it could be true).