Posts by Morgan Hernandez5

placidjackal36 said:Just my two cents here—physics does technically say the entire universe is interconnected. But that doesn't mean our brains can actually derive any practical benefit from it. For instance, if they set off a miniature atomic device in China, the energy released will eventually reach me, sure, but it’ll be so incredibly dissipated by the time it gets here that I won't be able to tell it apart from basic background noise.
The same thing happens if someone in New Zealand picks up a tiny pebble and drops it. First, they expend their own energy to bend down and lift the stone (energy pulled straight from the food they ate), and at that height, the pebble holds a few millijoules of potential energy. The second they let go, that energy scatters through air friction and finally through the impact with the floor. Those few millijoules just vanish, dissipating across the planet.
The wider it spreads, the weaker it gets. You aren't going to register the impact of a pebble hitting the ground a mile away, let alone all the way across America.
These are such infinitesimally small and indistinguishable values that they have zero impact. To put it visually, on a graph like this
http://fecal.org.mx/data/files/estadisticas/nulos.png" alt="image" loading="lazy" class="bb-img"> representing the change in energy received by a detector, those influences would just be invisible, microscopic bumps that you couldn't distinguish from the background static.
It’s like looking at a 3D model of a city and trying to read the location of a speck of dust from it. The parts of the graph are tens of meters high—buildings, skyscrapers—and you're trying to measure something 0.05 mm tall. Forget dust... we're talking about viruses.

And because of this fact—that everything affects everything else in a sort of deterministic chaos that is impossible to measure—some people build these grand ideas that we are "all one." It's not happening. It just makes no sense.
Just because my particles are being bombarded by thermal and radio waves that no imaginable device could ever isolate or distinguish, doesn't mean I am "one" with some Filipino guy halfway across the world having dinner right now.

Ever had that thing happen where you're thinking about someone, and then they suddenly call you or you run into them right after?
Can you tell what someone is thinking or feeling just by their behavior, their eyes... body language? Could you figure out my whole vibe based on just one or two short posts?
That’s all part of the "big picture" and "wavelength"—aka intuition.
Without it, guys like Tesla or Einstein wouldn't have even stumbled onto their ideas.
And Bohr and Heisenberg talked about this stuff constantly....
Basically, whatever Einstein was to physics, Jung was to psychology.
Humans can perceive things through four different ways.
Senses (feeling) paired with its complement, intuition,
Thinking and its complement, feelings.
You gotta develop them all at once. When the mind fails, intuition steps in. When you miss something obvious, intuition kicks in again. Jung said something smart about how kids mostly rely on their minds while growing up, so they really need to work on their feelings. And vice versa.

But there's a catch. The problem is that brain function can be measured with IQ. The other three aren't measurable, so science won't touch them. But they exist, damn it!

Imagination is more important than knowledge!

gentlemaker6 said:

Morgan Hernandez5 As follows:
Yes, in costume. Very well put. When I read that, I knew we were thinking along exactly the same lines.

The real question is how exactly things become "bone deep." Imagine if we were all raised from birth to believe that we are fundamentally one. To live knowing that every single person we encounter is just another version of ourselves—that everything we give or do is ultimately an act directed at our own soul. If that truth were ingrained in us, it would be part of our very marrow. It would be constant.

Since only a handful of people actually undergo the rigorous education, spiritual training, or deep philosophical study required to truly grasp these truths, those who feel them in their very marrow remain few. We have been conditioned for millennia to act otherwise; for most Americans, our "natural state" is exactly the opposite of what this realization requires.

We need to reverse the process.

Given all that, I would still give science its due. It’s certainly entangled with religion, politics, and—most of all—money, but it remains essential to our progress and the evolution of our ideas.
I find any form of exclusion to be entirely unnecessary.
Of course, intellect and science aren't the only things that matter. I remember my old professor at Yale used to say that logic alone can leave you quite lost.
You make a fair point. Throughout the long stretch of history, certain people have managed to adapt simply because they understood exactly what you and I know. That insight is precisely how they survived.

We have to account for everything. Only when we all commit to this can we finally reach the level of prosperity that humanity truly deserves. There is a silver lining here: we need to hit a critical mass—a specific percentage of people who realize we are all interconnected—before we see a global shift. I honestly have no idea what that exact number might be.

Helping others feels like a Sisyphus task to me, in the truest sense of the phrase. It’s an uphill battle against deeply ingrained traditional mindsets, sheer human stupidity, blatant selfishness, and that desperate need to belong. On top of all that, most people seem to lack any developed faculties beyond sight, touch, and hearing.
To truly grasp your writing style, one requires both a high IQ and the intuition to see the big picture—rather than focusing on fragmented details, much like the current state of most of humanity.
Once I realized how many mediocre people I was surrounded by—people who struggle to grasp even the simplest concepts—I decided it would be sheer madness to waste a single ounce of energy trying to explain the bigger picture to them. After all, everyone has the right to their own perspective. We should respect and honor those differing opinions, even when we can't find a shred of truth in them. Trying to force someone to see reality or pulling them down from their little cloud of delusion simply feels dishonest.
I am convinced that gentlemaker6, placidjackal36, you, and I actually share the same vision, even if we’re approaching it from different angles. It’s quite helpful, really; it allows us to piece together a much more complete picture.
Ultimately, none of us would even be gathered on this thread if it weren't for the circumstances.
Regrettably, people have lost their sense of empathy for others, and with it, basic respect has vanished. In the absence of intuition and intelligence, they often fail to grasp the situation entirely—though, in fairness, I can hardly blame them.
That is precisely why I believe we are merely chasing our tails.
I don't believe this should discourage us. We can still focus on self-improvement, continue our growth, and live in true alignment with our own visions.

Thanks in advance.

There is really only one step to take: you have to grasp the concept and actually live it. Once that happens, everything else falls into place naturally.

well, what if we just realized it now? maybe that makes the realization even sweeter, or more valuable. makes us stronger.
talking about "thousands of years" being in our bones? hmm, interesting. where would our knowledge even be then?
man, imagine the power we'd have! we'd basically be gods. (Morgan Hernandez5 = goddess Gea)
but i don't think that kind of knowledge belongs to everyone.
just another reason why it feels like a Sisyphean task.
yeah, impossible mission. we're all one, sure, but we aren't equals.
i'm pretty sure there are people out there with that kind of insight.
change is already happening. we should make the most of it. though you still need a ton of knowledge, "big picture" stuff, and intuitive "wavelengths."

if you can, look up Jung's concept of "synchronicity"—it's a solid theory on feeling connected.

you say... that humanity *deserves* it..
big words.

p.s. gea. might have to change my avatar.

jademarlin26 said:We don't need to save the planet; we just need to leave it alone. This climate change everyone is screaming about is a natural cycle that happens periodically—we simply need to learn how to adapt to it.

What actually needs help is the individual who fails to realize they are an extension of their environment, and that the conflicts they witness externally are merely reflections of the divisions within themselves. No talk of God, no sacred texts, no spiritual rituals, and certainly no scientific breakthroughs can force you to feel that connection in your bones. On the contrary, forcing belief systems only serves to ensure that you see nothing and you hear nothing. And that is all that matters.

Yeah, spot on. Really well said. When I read that, I knew we were pretty much on the same page.

So, why do you think all those old civilizations just vanished? I guess there's a million reasons, maybe. People always want a simple answer, but it's probably just a mix of everything hitting them at once. Resources drying up, bad leadership, climate shifts... who knows. It’s messy.
I mean, if you ask me, those were nothing short of "natural disasters."
You can look at the Bible for the whole Great Flood thing, but there's also actual science to back it up. I mean, you’ve got those oceanographers out of France who found freshwater shells sitting right in the Black Sea... plus a bunch of other studies. Just saying.
I guess I'm telling you that the whole Atlantis thing—you know, the idea that it just vanished because of some massive geological shift—is actually legit. It’s right where they say it should be, near the Azores, sitting right over that huge rift on the Atlantic floor. Just a direct result of everything happening deep under the earth throughout history. Maybe.
The planet is still acting up big time. Looking at the data and measurements from the last thirty years, it’s pretty clear things are ramping up. There's more shaking happening, and the volcanic activity just keeps getting more intense... I guess we're seeing it happen in real time.



I guess, looking at the whole mess, I’d still give science a shot. Yeah, it’s all tangled up with religion, politics, and—let's be real—massive amounts of money, but it still helps us move forward and come up with actual ideas.
I guess I just see every kind of exclusion as totally pointless.
Nah, obviously logic and science aren't the only things that matter...
You're not wrong. Throughout all this long-ass history, some people actually managed to adapt because they figured out what you and I already know. That’s how they survived, I guess.

Helping people? Honestly, it feels like Sisyphus pushing that rock up the hill every single day. It’s just endless. Between how stuck people are in their old-school ways, pure human stupidity, and that desperate, selfish need to fit in... it’s a mess. Plus, most people seem to have zero brainpower beyond just seeing, touching, and hearing stuff. I guess it's just a losing battle.
To actually get how you write, you gotta have a high IQ and that ability to see the big picture—like, actual intuition. Not this fragmented, broken-up mess most people deal with. Honestly, that’s basically what humanity is right now: just a bunch of disconnected pieces.
Once I realized my circle was basically crawling with mediocrity—people who struggle to grasp even the small stuff—I decided it’d be straight-up insane to waste even a shred of energy trying to explain the big picture to them. I mean, whatever. Everyone’s got a right to their own opinion, I guess. We should probably respect what people think, even if their takes are totally delusional. Honestly, trying to talk sense into someone or drag them down from whatever cloud they're floating on just feels dishonest. Not worth it.
I’m pretty sure gentlemaker6, placidjackal36, you, and me are all actually on the same page—we just look at things from different angles. I guess that’s actually a good thing, though. Might help us see the full picture.
At the end of the day, none of us would even be hanging out in this thread if it weren't for this stuff. I guess.
People just lost their sense of empathy, I guess. Respect is basically dead at this point. And since most people seem to be lacking both intuition and basic intelligence, I don't even know if I can blame them. Maybe that's just how it is now.
that’s why I think the whole thing is just a total uphill battle.
I mean, personally, I don't think we should let it get us down. We can still work on ourselves, grow, and live out our own visions, I guess.

thanks in advance

gentlemaker6 said:The mention of ecology was simply part of answering a specific question.

What I am actually discussing is a new way of perceiving spirituality—the realization that we are all interconnected. If this understanding reaches the masses, it would fundamentally transform the state of our world almost overnight. That is the "action" I am proposing.

God is life itself and encompasses everything within it. Therefore, God has no needs, because God is and possesses everything imaginable. This means there is nothing we need to perform to satisfy some insatiable deity. There are no commandments, no labels, no sins, no punishments, and certainly no hellish nonsense. There is no separation. Consequently, our task is simply to look inward, toward the presence of God within ourselves, and tap into that.

God exists to serve us, not the other way around.

The root cause of our current global situation lies in organized religion and its doctrines regarding God and humanity. The solution lies in what I have described here. You’ve noticed positive shifts occurring, and they truly are happening—slowly but surely. I am not the architect of this idea; it is a concept gaining traction globally, and one day, it will become the foundation of how we live.

Yeah, the division and fragmentation—the way the Greeks, medieval science, and the Church taught it—is gone. We're tied to everything around us.
The way you wrote that, it kind of reminds me of a Jehovah's Witness
or maybe some prophet without any actual prophecies, since you say "GOD" way too much for my taste.
When you talk like that, when you say God, I think of myself, nature, the universe, and how everything is connected... if I
got that right?

That "we are all one" thing is old news. Tons of philosophers, psychologists, physicists... they said it ages ago. But hey, it's never too late to act on it.
So, when and how did you figure this out?

Come on, placidjackal36, no dogmas. Flip the script and give us... facts!

gentlemaker6 said:I am not looking for someone to blame. My point is about action—specifically, the need to shift our collective consciousness and how we approach everything. This isn't just for a select few; it requires everyone to step up, regardless of their status or background. Only through that kind of internal shift will we see genuine external change that benefits us all.

Ecology is merely one piece of the puzzle—it's an effect. My focus remains on the underlying causes.

I don't get this whole ecology thing you're preaching, and I have no clue what kind of "action" you're suggesting or what you think the causes even are.
this is just an old post of mine ripped out of context, but it touches on the causes and stuff... etc... and I am proposing a solution.

Morgan Hernandez5 said:....how do you think the mind got detached from nature? It's still part of nature, obviously, but certain parts of the mind just aren't functioning right anymore. Like if you put bad fuel in a car engine, it starts running all wonky :-) (that's my materialistic answer linked to the id, or subconscious—classic psychoanalysis).
Everything is totally out of whack. Materialism is taking over. Money has become the goal instead of just a tool. There's zero balance, which is why nothing works right anymore. We live in this hyper-mechanical, Descartes-style, competitive, "masculine" (yang) mindset, while the intuitive, wise, "feminine" (yin) side that's actually in sync with nature is getting pushed aside. It’s no wonder we see movements like hippie culture, feminism, or environmentalism popping up—it's all because we desperately need that balance back. Now, Western society is starting to soak up Eastern philosophies, religions, meditation... alternative medicine, acupuncture, homeopathy... feng shui... you name it.
Take Buddhism, for instance. It’s basically just a psychological religion that points out why people suffer and feel frustrated, so why else do you think it’s blowing up in America lately? Christianity doesn't focus on the individual psyche nearly as much as Buddhism does.
Even Christianity is slowly—slowly, anyway—starting to embrace those Eastern "mystical" experiences through meditation and by turning more toward the individual.
Environmental awareness isn't going to grow until we start blending our rational knowledge with that non-linear, natural intuition of our surroundings. Basically, when we can finally balance intellectual power and scientific tech with wisdom and spirituality.
I think even medicine is starting to shift. It doesn't seem quite as reductionist as other sciences; a holistic approach is already creeping in, and they're starting to accept some Eastern healing methods.
Maybe it's too late, maybe it's not. Whatever. Civilizations existed before us, with all their rises and falls. So why shouldn't history just repeat itself?

placidjackal36 said:But I’m not "in" Karr, nor is he "in" me. He’s just made of the same particles I am. I don't see why that makes anything special.

It’s almost as if it’s perfectly normal that Mercer is composed of tin-based compounds, Maddox is niobium-based, and Karr is carbon-based, and then—BINGO!—we’re special, we’re interconnected! 👋

I honestly don't get it. As individuals, we aren't defined by our constituent particles (since we all share the same ones), but by how they are arranged. And Karr has a different arrangement than mine—one where he enjoys murdering Mexicans. 🤷

If I’m eating a cookie right now, Karr isn't eating it too. We aren't connected.
You can't build global human cooperation based on the fact that we're all carbon-based, or that we all contain ribosomes. Even sand contains ribosomes. And it's made of carbon, too.

So, I really doubt this is ever going to change the world. Most people already know they are carbon-based. If they haven't learned it from a textbook, they’ve certainly learned it through the experience of a nasty burn.

Maybe you inhaled the same atom that Newton or Karr breathed in once?

goldencobra5 said:That isn't true. Throughout history, the most brilliant minds were primarily idealists, and since Catholicism was the dominant religion, they aligned themselves with it because it held primacy over God and the divine.
Who's to say how devout they truly were?

On the other hand, I made it very clear that this statistic lacks a complete analysis regarding the actual representation of atheists within the total population. Someone mentioned a figure of 30 million, but they offered zero explanation for it.

So, under the ASSUMPTION that there really are proportionally fewer atheists in American prisons compared to believers, I posited that it might be because they are less impulsive—or, to put it in street slang, they aren't as prone to doing stupid shit. Nature didn't just invent reason, the neocortex, and all those other complexities for no reason. Faith is meant to serve as the connective tissue, yet believers frequently reject reason in favor of following their "hearts," which usually means following impulses that lead straight back to pure animalistic instincts. I see it happen constantly in the debates on this spirituality forum.

wherever you're getting this idea that the smartest people were all idealists from...
you talking about scientists or something?

swiftcobra15 said:The USA is essentially a nation of inmates and convicts. We have more prisoners per capita than anyone else on the planet.
But who actually ends up behind bars? Take a look at these figures:

STUDIES: ATHEISTS SUPPLY LESS THAN 1% OF PRISON POPULATIONS
by Wayne Aiken, North Carolina Director
AMERICAN ATHEISTS

I’m often surprised by people telling me, "You're an Atheist? You probably don't feel any guilt when committing a crime." That couldn't be more wrong. If we actually take a close look at our prison populations, the reality tells a completely different story.

In "The New Criminology," Max d. Schlapp and Edward E. Smith note that after analyzing data across two generations of statisticians, the ratio of convicts lacking religious upbringing is roughly 0.1%. Furthermore, W. T. Root, a Professor of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh, studied 1,916 inmates and observed that "indifference to religion, due to thought, strengthens character." He noted that Unitarians, Agnostics, Atheists and Free-Thinkers are almost entirely absent from our penitentiaries.
During 10 years in Sing Sing, among those executed for murder, 65% were Catholics, 26% were Protestants, 6% were Hebrew, 2% were Pagans, and less than 1/3 of 1% were non-religious.

I don't think a word-for-word translation is necessary here. Essentially, there is a very distinct religious makeup among inmates. While we shouldn't treat these specific numbers as absolute law—since they represent a specific sample rather than the entire country—the ratios remain fairly consistent across various parts of the USA.

So, looking at the data from Sing Sing, we see that 56% of murderers were Catholic (given that about one in four Americans is Catholic), 26% were Protestant (roughly one in every two Americans), 6% were Jew, and everyone else was a tiny fraction.
Non-believers are represented in prison at a rate a hundred times lower than their actual share of the general population.

How do you all make sense of this? Why does it seem that Catholics are significantly more prone to crime, while Atheists are quite the opposite? 😕

I mean, I get the feeling you already know the answer.

In Christianity, you can mess up. You just go to confession, repent, and boom—your sins are wiped clean.

Sandra Wilson68 said:Kobe Bryant

Based on your posts, I’d say your whole philosophical foundation is pretty blurry and arbitrary. It bleeds right into your epistemology because your words don't actually mean anything specific—you just make them up as you go. If "randomness" is the defining trait of your worldview, then it isn't even a real philosophy. It doesn't apply to everyone; it only works for people gullible enough to just take your word for it.

Look, I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt here. Maybe you aren't catching my drift because some of the slang I use carries a different weight with you. If we aren't using the same playbook for these words, then it's obvious why everything I'm trying to break down ends up sounding like gibberish to you.

The issue is I have no clue which specific words you think mean something different to you than they do to me. In my mind, the vocabulary I’m using is pretty much universal—words mean what they mean, so there shouldn't be any confusion. You brought up the word "chair" earlier and asked me to use it as an example to explain how I build my definitions. Look, "chair" is a single, straightforward concept. It doesn't need a deep dive. The same goes for words like "effort," "movement," "observation," "feeling," "memory," "opinion," or "understanding." I use those terms to tackle the three big existential questions: what, how, and why we exist. They're simple. They're direct. To me, they carry no more weight than how any regular person uses them in everyday conversation. Honestly, it trips me out that you can't follow my logic well enough to realize that my way of speaking isn't some kind of personal "belief system" or creed.

I’m not even mad at you. This isn't the first time people have completely missed my point and then tried to claim I’m pushing some kind of religious agenda. Honestly, it just blows my mind. How can people—without me even saying anything—fail to grasp the basic cause-and-effect relationship between physical and mental processes? It's the very foundation of how they exist and how reality itself works. People just make stuff up, turn those fabrications into global religions, and call it a day. There’s zero philosophy or "wisdom" in what I’m saying. There’s no belief system here. I’m just describing things. I'm trying to map out that cause-and-effect loop by using the human conscious "I" as an example—how it operates through a sort of "survival instinct"—and then applying that same logic to nature as a whole. My goal is to show that all of nature functions the exact same way to sustain itself. If someone actually understood how they exist, they wouldn't be stupid enough to claim that only humans and maybe a few animals have consciousness while rocks and everything else have nothing. That kind of thinking is just a baseless, nonsensical belief. You can't have consciousness in a vacuum because a human is a system made of elements. If you strip away every single component that makes up a person, there’s nothing left. And "nothing" can't be conscious. You're left with the elements that build the system. Those elements couldn't even form a human if they didn't possess the capacity for effort, movement, perception, feeling, memory, thought, and understanding. Those abilities are the fundamental actions that make consciousness possible. Since there is absolutely no difference between the elements that make up a human body and the elements that make up the entire universe, the rules are the same. Everything exists under the same laws and possibilities. These rules are baked into those seven physical and mental actions I keep bringing up: effort, movement, perception, feeling, memory, thought, and understanding. Without them, there is nothing. For reality to exist, the matter it's made of must possess these capabilities. That is the law of existence. Without these abilities, matter wouldn't just fail to evolve or transform; it wouldn't even be able to exist in the first place.

Look, it’s just like how a person doesn't "possess" consciousness—meaning they don't just own those physical and mental faculties that define awareness—in the same way you're right that a rock doesn't have consciousness or anything else. But the actual matter that makes up everything, even a stone, does. The matter within a rock has the inherent capacity to develop, through specific processes, into a human being. Just as the matter that forms a person can, under certain conditions, revert back into stone. Without those seven physical and mental capacities, none of this would be possible. That's why these abilities are essentially the LAW of all existence.

If you can't wrap your head around this right now, don't sweat it. Just start studying yourself—the rules and ways you actually exist—and eventually, things will click. I get that you can't grasp everything overnight, especially when someone is dead set on believing things work differently. If you're interested and actually have the time, you can check out my more detailed breakdowns at this link. I don't think the terms I use will trip you up if you read carefully; I try to keep my language straightforward. I do my best to avoid using overly complex jargon that feels unnatural. http://home.primus.ca/~milanpanic/

Later.

There are really only four psychological functions: thinking-feeling, and intuition-sensing. They're the tools we use to perceive things, and they complement each other. Everything else is just part of that.

Linda Martin22 said:Look, everything can change for the better, and honestly, Morgan Hernandez5 is right: we’re basically magnets for whatever we want to bring into our lives. We just have to really believe in it and feel it deep down.

hey, what's up :-)

Linda Martin22 said:Just start focusing on the positive and stop letting those dark thoughts take over. It’s easy to fall into that trap—one bad thought leads to another until you're spiraling. I'm actually working on fixing that myself right now. Doing some serious mental spring cleaning 😁
I also have this great little trick for you. Grab a piece of paper and write down everything you love doing—music, books, movies, whatever makes you happy! If you feel those negative vibes creeping in, use that list to snap out of it immediately. Just dive into something you enjoy and they'll fade away. Don't dwell on the bad stuff from your past. Only keep the good memories in mind!

Yeah, this is a solid point... gotta work on yourself... from the inside out...
You gotta fill up on positive stuff and good vibes, then you'll see how much better everything looks, including us. We'll basically become magnets for whatever we want to pull into our lives..

Megan Jones4 said:For the longest time, I actually convinced myself I had found my ride-or-die, my absolute best friend in the entire world. If I were typing this out a year ago, I probably would’ve been bragging about how she was there through thick and thin... but hey, life happens, things go south, and suddenly they're gone too. And honestly? Good riddance. At least now I'm not deluding myself into thinking anyone's got my back; I've always been on my own, but at least the reality check is finally here, and I’m feeling pretty damn good about it, no cap. I've started making new connections lately that actually feel more solid than whatever we had—people who operate on a completely different level altogether.🙂

If she truly was your best friend, she wouldn't have turned her back on you. Clearly, she wasn't.
And don't go blaming her. Blame yourself. In my opinion, it's just a bad call on your part.

If these new connections turn into actual solid friendships, it just means you've grown and learned more about yourself... which makes it easier to read other people too. Your judgment will be better next time.

Christian Wells6 said:Splendid.
Personally, I haven't the slightest clue how I would manage such a vast collection of these friends, though I never harbor the illusion that labeling someone as the 'best' is strictly necessary.

I can cook with whomever I choose, even enemies.
I seek employment from my neighbors.
I prepare soup for a chronic alcoholic who is nobody's friend, least of all his own.
I can discuss relationship woes with a total stranger; in fact, that is often the most rational approach.
To me, calling someone to gossip about shopping trips is quite the nuisance.

None of that, my dear, has anything to do with friendship.

I get that having a male friend and a female friend is tough, and you probably feel the same way about both, but what exactly defines friendship for you?
The whole "not having illusions" thing... maybe it's just because you don't bother going deep with people, so it doesn't matter if you're cooking with them or talking about yesterday's trip to Target.
Being superficial is easy. You don't even have to try; it's just there without any effort or giving anything of yourself. But building deeper connections—starting within yourself first and then letting that show outwardly—that takes real work. If you do that, your relationships change because you actually have something to offer, so you end up getting something back.
That's how you get real friendships, or even love.

http://www.mind.org.uk/Information/B...ding/USHAD.htm

http://www.geometricvisions.com/Madn...tive-disorder/

http://www.revolutionhealth.com/drug...ctive-disorder

Yeah, I guess you should probably check this one out too:
http://brain.hastypastry.net/forums/...play.php?f=237

Noah Sanchez7 said:@Lone rider, and others

Just a few questions to pass the time.
Do you view philosophy as an end in itself, or just a tool to reach something else?
If it’s a tool, what’s the ultimate goal? And if it’s the goal, why does that matter?
Also, when you say things like "I was left all alone with myself," who are you actually talking about? There seem to be two subjects there—which one is which?

Look, these are deep-dive topics for some other thread. If you wanna go there, you gotta wait your turn to talk to me. Maybe the weed is the means and philosophy is the goal.

And when I'm alone with myself... I guess I'm talking about my ego and my superego.

Donna Sullivan7 said:man, why don't you just take your THC and head out into the wild (like Thailand, Nepal, Bhutan, etc.) and try to enlighten all those hippies, monks, meditators, and gurus? otherwise, we'll have to rewrite the entire field of science to fit your super-active "recording" method, along with chemistry, biophysics, molecular biology, pharmacology, and all that other crap...😂

Morgan Hernandez5, stop rambling. You done talking? Just pass it along then..

http://www.medmjscience.org/Media/pdf/marimed.pdf
http://www.cannabis-med.org/science-.../JCANT1(1).pdf
medical marijuana stuff

Austin Carter6 said:So true, Morgan Hernandez5! And hey, I really love your avatar too, by the way🙂

*I guess you could say wisdom is the ultimate weapon... like, the sharpest blade there is for an opponent, and honestly, it’s such a blessing for anyone who actually knows how to use it properly😉

mine too, especially the name

Austin Carter6 said:Maybe just stop asking these kinds of questions altogether? I mean, instead of just accepting everything as it is, why not actually start exploring who you really are? 🙂

Maybe just cut out the wise guy act. You’re only acting all skeptical because you don't know what's actually going on. I guess you're just hiding what's really in your heart.

nimbleviper75 said:Ladies, does everyone actually have a best friend?

I don't know what the deal is, but in my 20-plus years, I haven't managed to land a single best friend. I had one back in elementary school, but she just decided one day that we weren't hanging out anymore. She never even told me why.

Then there was another towards the end of grade school, but that friendship fell apart after I told her that her boyfriend kissed me—on the cheek, mind you, and without me wanting him to!

And then another one in middle school who basically just phased me out of her life.

I'm not a drama seeker. I'm loyal, I can keep a secret, I'm a great listener, I would literally give any of them a kidney, and I actually have a sense of humor. None of those three people above had a legitimate reason to stop being friends with me (I stand by that 100%). Maybe I just bored them or something, I don't know. Or maybe I'm just looking for friends in all the wrong places. Ugh, I get the dilemmas men face. What is it that women actually want?!

I am totally willing to work on my flaws, but I honestly can't figure out where I went wrong. The only thing I can think of that might have hurt a friendship is that I'm relatively guarded. But is that really enough to ruin a whole friendship?
Am I messing up somewhere else? Or is "best friendship" just a myth and we've all been lied to?

Please, don't turn this into some "girls' night" chat. I'm looking for some more serious answers here.
Men are more than welcome to weigh in too.

Look, I've dealt with the exact same stuff here in my neck of the woods.
There are tons of possible reasons... jealousy, envy, or just plain stupidity.
But honestly, it just shows none of them deserved you.
Real friendship doesn't care if you're private or have other little quirks..
Look, keep your head up. They didn't deserve you. That's just it. We'll keep working on ourselves, and then we'll earn a real, selfless friend.. and we'll give them our all, because we'll actually have something to offer, and then we'll be able to receive it.