Yes, I know it is a "religion in the form of a joke or a joke in the form of a religion", I didn't just pick and choose a philosophy that had a nice name without reading anything about it :) The Black Iron Prison was a great text.

It might be in our genes. Who knows? But yeah, I don't like all these classifications that much. Drawing the line between "straight" - "bi" - "gay" is hard and usually pointless. I'm sexual. I have never had a boyfriend, but someday I just might.

I didn't know about this day at all, but I woke up in the morning from a dream that told me this day would be somehow meaningful. I met my 10-year-old self in the mirror. That was interesting, mind-opening. Doesn't really matter whether it was "meaningful" or "just a coincidence", it was...

Capitalism is not that bad of an idea. Money has just grown too big and important in many places. 100% socialism would be pretty boring, imho. I think there should be a balance between these two (and all the other) ways, something that doesn't have a name yet. Probably. If "they" would have...

(How is it possible that people constantly typo that word when you can read it on the top of the page all the time?) Female psychonauts who use psychedelics and "study their brains" that way seem rare. Might be due to the fact that women in general seem to be not that interested in stuff like...

Since this thread has been off-topic for...pretty much all the time, and since my confusion has grown unbearable, I just need to ask... I checked all my post on this forum. I have replied to your posts in five topics before this, and the discussion continued in three of them: here, here, here...

Well, I don't see that McAllister's religion harms him/her in any way. If the person decides to believe in something that tells her to leave behind everything she has ever enjoyed and to start cutting herself- well yeah, that's bad (but not really the fault of the religion). Where? OK, it...

Why lie back and close your eyes when you can perform rituals and get much deeper? Why use psychedelics when sensory deprivation is THE RIGHT WAY? We're talking about subjective experiences here. All YOU might have to do is lie on your back, close your eyes and look for the light within. If...

Why wouldn't they know? At least here (in Europe) every product has to have a list of ingredients printed somewhere on the package. However, I think this miraculin won't become a popular sweetener, at least not in the near future, as scientists still don't know exactly how it works. I think it...

Yeah, and you have all the other senses for good reasons. Imagine what would happen if someone found out that some plants could make you see things differently for a couple of hours, like...blue turns to purple and green turns to red, things bend and "breathe" or you see fractals and strange...

So what? It doesn't matter whether rain is absolutely and objectively "Jesus Christ crying for our sins" or "a product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that is released on the Earth's surface" or something else - it still rains. Take all the possible explanations and ways of...

So it's possible to acknowledge the fact that I am being somehow "conditioned" to think like "they" do, but impossible to get around it? If this were true, none of us would ever have realized that psychedelics are not necessarily "killer drugs that will make you insane". ...Unless we have...

As Forkbender said: If you know someone is trying to manipulate you, the manipulation won't work. This reminds me of the South Park episode "Bloody Mary" (read the plot summary): When Randy is told that his "alcoholism" is a disease that he just can't help in any way, we end up in a situation...

The dualism, the dualism. It seems to me that you are trying to say something like: "Either you'll watch TV without any critical thinkg and be a slave or don't watch TV and be FREE." If the faceless, nameless, gargantuan machinery of propaganda really is that strong, it wouldn't take much from...

This post just fills my head with questions. Do you really think things are that simple? "Alternative thinkers" are sometimes even more fundamental and simplistic in their views than the caricatured ideas of their "enemies". "Don't think, don't read, here's American Gladiators, drink beer, we...