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Harbal wrote: ↑Fri Jul 22, 2022 5:58 pm I’m sick of staying in, but there’s nowhere I want to go, and I crave human company, but there is no one I want to be with. It is a perplexing predicament. Do any of the great philosophers have the answer to it?

No, I thought not.

Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Jul 22, 2022 8:32 pm Hey Harby, don't you know, that on days like these which is probably everyday, you really should be ....

vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 22, 2022 9:18 pm People don't understand that so-called 'loners' also crave human company--it's just a very specific kind of human company.

vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 22, 2022 9:18 pm I'm intending to go foraging for the first time today, on my own.

Harbal wrote: ↑Fri Jul 22, 2022 9:43 pm

vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 22, 2022 9:18 pm People don't understand that so-called 'loners' also crave human company--it's just a very specific kind of human company.

That's exactly it. I did join something not long back. It was only an hour and a half, twice per month, with six or seven other people. I only went three times and it was absolutely ghastly. There was nothing wrong with the people, but I just couldn't bear being with them. They were probably as relieved as me when I stopped going.

vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 22, 2022 9:18 pm I'm intending to go foraging for the first time today, on my own.

Don't eat anything you're not sure about.

promethean75 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 23, 2022 12:52 am psilocybin indeed. i think the muscaria has intoxicating properties but has to be prepared somehow... but i ain't sure.

i have quite a history with psilocybin tho. my first experience involved splitting a quarter (four grams each) and driving a toyota Corolla at night through lightly falling snow for ten miles while listening to Yes's Fragile. we had to pick homeboy up, that's why i wuz drivin. it was so incredibly magical man with the snow in the headlights and the music and neither zonk nor myself could stop laughing it was so wonderful. it was like a serotonin dopamine overload. my whole amygdala was saturated with it. it was totally dreamlike, especially the effects of the snow flakes and headlights. i wuzzint at all impaired tho. I was high as fuck but my motor skill judgements weren't distorted. Shrooms have chemicals with molecular similarities to synthetic speed and methamphetamine if I remember reading correctly. You don't get sloppy on shrooms.

Harbal wrote: ↑Fri Jul 22, 2022 5:58 pm I’m sick of staying in, but there’s nowhere I want to go, and I crave human company, but there is no one I want to be with. It is a perplexing predicament. Do any of the great philosophers have the answer to it?

No, I thought not.

attofishpi wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 5:38 pm
I remember a scene in some film from the 80s where there some bloke was chatting through a small device in his hand (like todays mobiles) with video, and I thought to myself as if that's gonna be possible in my lifetime...well, we got that and a lot more - I love tech.

Harbal wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 9:03 am

attofishpi wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 5:38 pm
I remember a scene in some film from the 80s where there some bloke was chatting through a small device in his hand (like todays mobiles) with video, and I thought to myself as if that's gonna be possible in my lifetime...well, we got that and a lot more - I love tech.

Do you think the day will ever come when we can say, "beam me to isle 2 at Tesco, Alexa, I've run out of bread?".

attofishpi wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 5:38 pm I like being alone, just me and my dog..and I like the quiet time to get on with my stuff without constant interuption.