I'm gonna be real, LSD helped me empathize, but not because I realized other people are just like me. I knew that.
It was because it helped me think in different ways, where I was recognizing different patterns than usual, and became more interested in plants, bugs, that kind of stuff.
It gave me a wider pool of experiences to draw on when empathizing. Now, when someone is stoked about a pretty plant or a bird or something instead of imagining what it would be like to be excited about it and empathizing from there, I can take a shortcut and draw straight from my experience being excited about that kind of stuff.
Yeah I mean I don't think most people mean they unlocked empathy or something. You can know something your whole life but experience that feeling in a new way. Like if someone was in a near death incident and they said something to me like they feel really alive, I wouldn't be like "no duh."
Anyways I get a lot of people online who talk about psychedelics are rogan listeners so yeah not a fan of those
Weird how invested people get once they've "reached a higher plane" and experienced ego death, now they go around preaching to everyone how they need to experience ego death and "get on their level" and act with a smug sense of superiority and condescension towards anyone who isn't "open minded enough to see past their ego" and shit.
Maybe they did experience ego death, briefly, but they always seem to invest huge amounts of ego into this experience after the fact.
I spotted that you're reading Fanon. I've actually been meaning to re-read The Wretched of The Earth but it's hard to scrape together the brainpower to focus on reading at the moment and when I have had the wherewithal I've mostly been doing deep dives into the Spanish Civil War but I really should give TWotE another crack.
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Imo these dudes are doing podcast / tech bro damage control. Critical support.
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I'm gonna be real, LSD helped me empathize, but not because I realized other people are just like me. I knew that.
It was because it helped me think in different ways, where I was recognizing different patterns than usual, and became more interested in plants, bugs, that kind of stuff.
It gave me a wider pool of experiences to draw on when empathizing. Now, when someone is stoked about a pretty plant or a bird or something instead of imagining what it would be like to be excited about it and empathizing from there, I can take a shortcut and draw straight from my experience being excited about that kind of stuff.
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I'm so glad you got there. That dude sounds like he doesn't know what he's talking about, you seem legit.
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Yeah I mean I don't think most people mean they unlocked empathy or something. You can know something your whole life but experience that feeling in a new way. Like if someone was in a near death incident and they said something to me like they feel really alive, I wouldn't be like "no duh."
Anyways I get a lot of people online who talk about psychedelics are rogan listeners so yeah not a fan of those
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This is so specific yet I know exactly who you're talking about lmao
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Weird how invested people get once they've "reached a higher plane" and experienced ego death, now they go around preaching to everyone how they need to experience ego death and "get on their level" and act with a smug sense of superiority and condescension towards anyone who isn't "open minded enough to see past their ego" and shit.
Maybe they did experience ego death, briefly, but they always seem to invest huge amounts of ego into this experience after the fact.
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Thanks for the heads up!
I spotted that you're reading Fanon. I've actually been meaning to re-read The Wretched of The Earth but it's hard to scrape together the brainpower to focus on reading at the moment and when I have had the wherewithal I've mostly been doing deep dives into the Spanish Civil War but I really should give TWotE another crack.
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Awesome, thanks!
That's wild! There's a documentary filled with interviews from people who lived in the Spanish Republic - I wonder if your friend's grandpa knew anyone who featured in it?
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