small business owners, white guys who never felt empathy before doing mushrooms then insist they've reached enlightenment and that everyone needs to do mushrooms, veterans.
i want them to do the mushrooms, its good for them, i just want them to stop insisting that we all need to do mushrooms too. I love shrooms, I did not need them to realize that other people are just like me and have feeling just like I do. I realized that at like 11, pretty sure most not cis het white people do as well. they just need to proselytized to people who aren't me I guess.
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.
im glad its helped you in that way. It helps me be less anxious about things that dont really matter that much. like why do i care if my father disapproves of me? i disapprove of him!
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 agree completely
Hey! ReadFanon did you know that we are in fact reading Fanon for the next few weeks over on the theory comm? Could be fun to check out, maybe share some thoughts. no pressure
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.
yeah no problem, and nooo pressure, we even have this detailed summary you can use to follow along if your brain is too fried to read the book. its like sparknotes. and yeah ive been the the old spanish civil war kick myself, I used to have a friend whos grandpa was an anarchist who fought in the civil war.
so cool. Idk maybe, we dont really talk much anymore. we were gonna make adgitprop together but we kinda just stopped talking. im really bad at maintaining friendships.
small business owners, white guys who never felt empathy before doing mushrooms then insist they've reached enlightenment and that everyone needs to do mushrooms, veterans.
Imo these dudes are doing podcast / tech bro damage control. Critical support.
i want them to do the mushrooms, its good for them, i just want them to stop insisting that we all need to do mushrooms too. I love shrooms, I did not need them to realize that other people are just like me and have feeling just like I do. I realized that at like 11, pretty sure most not cis het white people do as well. they just need to proselytized to people who aren't me I guess.
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.
im glad its helped you in that way. It helps me be less anxious about things that dont really matter that much. like why do i care if my father disapproves of me? i disapprove of him!
I'm so glad you got there. That dude sounds like he doesn't know what he's talking about, you seem legit.
thanks!
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
The "JUST DO DMT BROOOOOO DONT BE A (misogynustic slur here) BROOOOOOOOOO" Roganites are terrible.
This is so specific yet I know exactly who you're talking about lmao
there one at most house parties (if its a good house party)
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 agree completely Hey! ReadFanon did you know that we are in fact reading Fanon for the next few weeks over on the theory comm? Could be fun to check out, maybe share some thoughts. no pressure
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.
yeah no problem, and nooo pressure, we even have this detailed summary you can use to follow along if your brain is too fried to read the book. its like sparknotes. and yeah ive been the the old spanish civil war kick myself, I used to have a friend whos grandpa was an anarchist who fought in the civil war.
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?
so cool. Idk maybe, we dont really talk much anymore. we were gonna make adgitprop together but we kinda just stopped talking. im really bad at maintaining friendships.