How dare you call an individual, who set himself on fire repeatedly, a degenerate and unmature.
(instead of respecting his religious freedom)
Stupidity is seriously underrated, everybody says it's bad but it gives me frequent moments of joy. In fact I have purposely dumbed myself down to be in harmony with my surroundings. Now it feels much better. Before it was all shock and horror, always asking myself what these idiots were doing.
Even Shrooms can **** you up badly. Like you said, don't do it alone. One of my long time friends from high school took 150 mushrooms on his own, well with his mum in the house unaware of what he was doing. Things got freaky at the Peak of his trip and he went berserk and in the chaos and confusion he tried to stab his mum with a pair of scissors, the police were called and he was taken to hospital. Incredibly he wasn't detained under the mental health act ( involuntary hospital admission ) and was let go the next day, he was pretty strange for awhile after that night, apparently that event has had a lasting impact on him, he writes incredibly complex and very sinister pieces of music, definitely not smoking music!
Gordon.
Yes, we were all young and stupid once. Life IS a learning process. Maybe letting Fat Cat lick the mirror after all the blow heads have pretty much vacuumed it clean wasn't the greatest idea, but he enjoyed it and lived a long happy life.
In the 70's when all this happened, I was viewed as one of the more conservative druggies in my circle of friends. We all tried new things to see what worked for us. I would never go near a needle, or try anything that others hadn't done several times while I was around. Did some of my friends "F" themselves up?
Yes, but who can say that they don't know someone who has done terrible or stupid things to themselves. Some of the dumbest involved money, like gambling or say betting your ENTIRE retirement fund on a "sure thing." I knew a well respected boss at work, who took an early buyout, left his wife, and ran off with a young girl. About a year later we saw an article in the newspaper.....he was destitute and living under a bridge in Miami, he had been mugged and killed for his shoes! No drugs involved that we knew of.
As I said life is a learning process, and other than the hand full of Oxy's given to me by a doctor after a cancer surgery, I haven't done ANY drugs in over 20 years, I just don't desire to do that any more. Some of my friends still smoke weed, and others go further than that. We all chose what's right for ourselves.
Looking back now I can see that the stress factory we all worked in consumed more than its share of people. The suicide rate, heart attack rate, and divorce rate was WAY above the average for south Florida. Yes, some of my druggie friends suffered the same fate, but our stress rate factor was not as high as the corporate climbers. I had two bosses who gave their lives to that place, then died shortly after retiring. One lasted 3 weeks, the other 5 months.
I decided at an early age to enjoy my life rather than be like them. When I got stuck into a job function that I didn't like, I made the best of it until I could find another within the company, even if it involved a pay cut. Over all I liked my work. I managed to get two college degrees on their dime.
Did I make the right choices in the last 45 years? I don't know, but I don't regret ANY of them. I lasted 41 years in that place. The average career length there varied from 5 to 10 years during that time. When I chose to retire, I was #7 on the old timers (seniority) list. Did you, or are you, doing any better?
I know of no indication that he wasn't.
Cannabis at that time was legal and in plentiful supply as a byproduct of the rope industry which was essential to build the british empire.
They say that even George Washington enjoyed getting high based on the fact that somewhere in his writings he mentioned that he ordered his slaves to separate male from female plants. Something that is not needed for rope production and only makes sense if you want to get stoned.
On another note many years ago I was at an exhibition of old chinese silk paintings. They painted on scrolls one of which showed the procession of an emperor in minute detail. The whole thing was 24m in length and about 1m in height. Another one was entitled 'Important Plants from beyond the Wall'.
The very first one was Cannabis. Again in incredible detail with the whole plant and detailed depictions of leaf, male and female flowers.
Gentleman let`s see & hear what Dr. L .Ron Bumquist has to say on this subject ! :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObbLapUaZd4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObbLapUaZd4
Well, we all know what the good doctor does in his spare time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr0OXWAFAAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr0OXWAFAAY
Yeah, stuff like that really makes you think about what your real priorities are in life. Its very unhealthy to have a life lacking joy and humour, but that is the life that the "winners" choose, so often. Perhaps they realize too late. You do hear these occasional stories about high flyers who have serious accidents and have those "near death experiences" Im not sure what to make of these events, but nearly all of these type of people totally changed their priorities, following these events.
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The other day I done something that I haven't done in years, I compiled a mix tape. I mentioned here last week, I think, that my 6 year old daughter and I had been sorting through old belongings of mine during a tidy up session. We came across an old Walkman style personal cassette player, She had never seen anything like this before and was fascinated with it.
I decided to make up a tape for her with all the pop crap that she likes to listen to. Talking about massive compression on pop music, the VU meters on my tape deck hardly shifted from the same spot accept at the beginnings and ends of the songs. Sadly she seems to have knackered ( British colloquial for broken ) the tape player, I will see if I can salvage it or the other one that we found at the same time, which hasn't worked at all since we found it.
Gordon.
That is hilarious, I've never actually watched that movie, though have been strongly recommended to see it.
L Ron Bumquist! 😀😀😀
I lived in the same house for 37 of the 41 years that I worked in the Motorola plant. We started sorting through it all several years ago when we figured out that retirement would be sneaking up on us, and we would be leaving south Florida. We didn't want to move stuff that we would never use. You learn about this when your parents pass on and you have to clean out their house. My daughter doesn't know an ohm from a gigawatt, so we didn't want to leave her with 200,000 vacuum tubes......now I'm down to about 5,000.
It is hard to imagine all the stuff that you collect without realizing it. I found a brand new Motorola CB radio still in the box that I had purchased in the Employee store for my 70's style van. It had never been installed, so I sold it at a hamfest.
I had quite a collection of 70's vintage stereo equipment. I gave it all to a fellow employee who fixed and collected that stuff. There were two Nakamichi cassette decks, and several Walkman style portables. I did keep my old Discman, and it still works. It has a line output, runs on batteries and is good for quick testing amps in the field.
Someone here posted a link to a Youtube rant by an elderly gentleman in his 90's who still takes 100 mile walks. His two important points are to get some form of exercise every day, and to find something that you LIKE to do (not have to do) and do it every day. This is important, and I agree 100%.
Absolutely the best advice, the best way to keep your body alive is to keep giving it reasons to be alive!
My eldest daughter is nearly 12, she is very bright and could easily have grasped some of the basics of electronics by now, however my attempts have largely fallen on deaf ears. The little one though, only 6, shows a lot more interest in my electronics activities. I need to commit to spending more time with her to develop this interest, a good pass time for rainy school breaks!
Yes, doing something that you like every day is a good one. Another is, though more challenging, to try something that you find difficult, everyday. Though I'm not suggesting this would promote longevity, it will broaden the mind and bolster self worth.
Gordon.
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Yeah I suppose so, but it's all about moderation. One of the lads at my sixth form college took a LOT of acid upstairs at a house party and then walked down the stairs while pleasuring himself to be then confronted by the host's mother who he then proceeded to punch in the face. He was of course thrown out onto the street after that! No word of a lie 😛 .
Yes, people do stupid things and learn from them, but it's this nascent pride, almost, that comes across when they talk about it that annoys me.
The key is moderation. If you want to take more of a hallucinogen than you can safely handle on your own, then get a good friend who won't mess around with you to look after you. But that's not an excuse to take catastrophically excessive amounts of any drug.
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Yeah, that's great, get them interested while they are young, me/sure many others wish we had the opportunity for that looking back..didn't really get into it all till way later teens/early 20s.
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