Raui

I am very for the use of drugs that have been used since the dawning of our consciousness but only if they are used responsibly. The Native American Church is allowed to administer peyote to their members. Peyote is a hallucinogenic cactus which has been used for atleast 5000 years. It is a 'schedule 1' drug in the US unless your a member of this church. They are able to do so because the courts could not prove that they were endangering themselves or anyone else by participating in these ceremonies. UDV church is able to give their members ayahuasca a hallucinogenic tea which contains the craziest psychedelic known to man - Dimethyltryptamine or DMT. They were able to give their members this tea for the same reason as the Native American Chruch is able to give their members Peyote. They use the Religious Freedom Restoration Act to argue their case in court by arguing that they are taking these substances in spiritual context and they are basically a religious sacrament. Now I don't see a difference between general recreational use of these drugs and spiritual other than their set and setting. If people were more educated on how to produce the correct set and setting to get these experiences then there is no difference what so ever. There are still risks associated with these drugs but they are minimized by controlling the right conditions for example there are extreme risks doing 200km/h on a windy road but there is not as much risk doing 50 or 60 km/h on a windy road. That said even the person doing 60km/h cannot stop being endangered by the idiot drifting around the corners at 200km/h and smashing into them. Drugs are the same as driving.

Also the government's policy isn't there because they wish to stop people 'harming' themselves otherwise alcohol and cigarettes would be banned. Cigarettes have very high addiction potential and no medical use therefore they match both of the major qualities to a Schedule 1 substance in the US. Cody was nice enough to do some statistics on drug usage. Notice that illegal drugs were below even prescription drugs! They are NOT all as dangerous as the government makes them out to be. In fact the government's classifications are flawed for some substances particularly hallucinogens.

For example LSD and psilocybin (magic mushrooms) are Schedule 1 substances which should mean they are highly addictive and have no medical benefit. If the law makers went over to their medical schools and asked for their advice they'd be told by any decent pharmacologist that both of these substances have no physically addictive qualities, rather the opposite. Then if they go and ask psychologists if they've found any benefits from psychedelics on their patients they'd find again that there is plenty of evidence to suggest that these substances can help with depression if they are taken in the right set and setting. Here is an article straight from John Hopkins that shows that peoples spiritual experiences encountered with a controlled set, setting and dose of magic mushrooms had very beneficial psychological benefits 14 months after the dosage here. There is both the criteria for two hallucinogens being Schedule 1 substances completely blown out of the water.

So one must ask what are they trying to hide? Why are they lying about the true classifications of these substances? One problem could be that scientists don't make the laws, instead our money hungry politicians do who don't care about outcomes only votes. Who does the research? Scientists. Who makes the laws on whether these drugs are okay for us to use or not? Politicians, does anyone see the problem here? I'd go a step further and say that you are the only one who should be able to say whether or not you're allowed to ingest a certain substance. Perhaps I don't give politicians enough credit perhaps they are smart enough to go look up medical journals and find that their classifications are wrong, maybe there is a different reason why they so heavily control these substances - to control the ways we think. More on that soon.

Why don't those opposed to the decriminalization of drugs look to the most obvious source of information in regard to proving that decriminalization leads to a worse society - statistics from the countries with a more lax drug policy than your own? Because if they do they'll find that there is naught but good these statistics say about society after drug decriminalisation. Go and find your evidence against drug decriminalization and I assure you that one will find that the evidence is in - the war on drugs has failed. People shouldn't be harassed for smoking a spliff as much as they should be for drinking a beer. In fact I think there should be less harassment but that may just be my personal experience with problem drinkers and how it effects their families. To all you who are against drugs, go have another drink or smoke another cigarette for they do just as much (evidently more) than these 'bad drugs'. For all of those who have alcoholics in their families do you feel as though your mum/dad, brother/sister, aunt/uncle should have been thrown in jail for their alcohol addiction? Well consider your answer next time you hear of a junkie going to prison.

Personally I have smoked marijuana many times (I have cut back recently from smoking every day to every 3 - 4 weeks) and I've taken LSD 3 times tried speed once and will never do it again even if it is decriminalized because I knew from that one time that it was a very dangerous substance which will cause a lot of harm to society if people aren't educated on the topic. I love smoking weed as it helps me think creatively but weed alas has absolutely nothing, almost as if to hold a paddlepop stick to a army of assault rifle wielding soliders, compared to LSD. Every single time I've had it it's shown me things about myself that I would have NEVER known otherwise. It has taught me the relationships between my mind, body and surroundings. It has helped me through problems I was having simply by giving me a new way to think. It puts things into perspective for me. It also has frightened the fuck out of me and made me think I was going insane but to me it was those feelings which taught me the most about myself. You have to give in to the experience to really gain something from it which is why I feel a lot of people have bad experiences because they're trying to control it. Now if you go back to say the hippies their core message was peace and love. As John Lennon famously said 'All we are saying, is give peace a chance'. Now tell me what the fuck is wrong with that? Well in my way of thinking I believe that because you don't want to work anymore, you're happier with a simpler way of life the system doesn't like it because your programmed from a young age with things like; You must have money to be happy, you must do well in school, you must do this, you must do that etc but then you realize the absurdity to it all. Maybe that's the conspiracy theorist coming out in me.

Once I suffered what you'd call ego death. I completely lost my identity with the world and at first it scared me a lot but then my friend told me simply to relax and give in so thats what I did. I realized all we are is a spec of conscious awareness on the fabric of the universe and that all our problems that we face day to day are really insignificant and are really of our own creation. All is one. Separateness is only an illusion. It's brought much peace to my life and in many ways I no longer fear death. To be balanced though I know people who've been badly effected by LSD but i'll argue it only brings up what's already within your own consciousness so if you've got schizophrenic genes and don't want to turn out like your relatives stay away from hallucinogens kids!

Peace.

A real man wouldn't need steroids to up his testosterone. Steroids are for wankers.

Noit, don't do roids! My friend does them and he's changed since he's used them. He's turned into a self centered prick who is constantly asking if his muscles are getting bigger and all this other shit. I always reply with a no you're just pulling you're dick harder You don't want to be in that category now do you man?

Also, here's a reason why men should make women work and not pay them; http://www.smh.com.a...d=1270082986457

*Stands in amazement* That meaningless conversing between you lot gives even brainfuck a run for its money

As for the meaning of life well that's a tricky one. Subjectively it can vary a lot and is the cause of a lot of conflict especially in terms of religious people. For this reason I don't really follow religion however I think there are things in every religion (or almost every) which have great meaning and should be listened to. Here's one way of looking at it which is slightly outlandish.

First of all I'll establish some things. Some people are aware while others aren't that we are just energy. You've probably all heard of Einstein's famous equation e=mc^2 where e is energy, m is mass and c^2 is the speed of light squared (which is constant). Another equation which not too many people know is Max Planck's equation for energy e = hf where e is energy, h is Planck's constant and f is the electromagnetic frequency. Let's do a contrast on these two equations.

e=mc^2 - This is really the potential energy of a given mass.
e=hf

h and c^2 are both constants so they can go.

e = m
e = f

This tells us that changes in frequency result in changes in energy which result in changes in mass. With this now in mind I'll proceed into Dr. Walter Russell and his works on philosophy. In his philosophy everything appears out of the one and returns to what he calls 'the one'. Before I proceed any further it is of interest to note that electron/positron pairs are being emitted out of the quantum vacuum (21st century science's aether). These pairs cancel each other out and thus return to the quantum vacuum in a fashion Walter Russell hypothesized nature worked. I'll just note that Russell was around before the quantum theory. Proceeding, everything works in a cyclic function in the philosophy of Walter Russell aka. waves. Back to the quantum vacuum, stated in theories of this 'vacuum' is the notion that the quantum vacuum is responsible for EVERYTHING. So if we take this quantum vacuum as being 'the one' that Walter Russell talks about. An electromagnetic wave travels through the quantum vacuum at a select frequency so what does that make mass? It makes it a frequency in the quantum vacuum. My take on this is that the meaning of life is to change the frequency of that around us to bring it closer to becoming nothing but energy or also put; convert everything into energy.

Now that's probably way more fucked that anything put forward in the IRC conversation however I'm sick of everyone thinking the same way so there's just something to chew on

Well I'm no expert on law however if you're under the age of 18 and you 'agree' to their terms and conditions without your legal guardian acknowledging that they allow you to do so any punishment you can get is void because tnt can't use what's in their TOS without a guardian

TNT are absolutely totally and utterly mind blowing with their stupidity sometimes however not in this department. They don't play favourites

Lol, well I wouldn't argue that TNT is quite retarded sometimes.
But agree that they don't care if you pay or not. I've heard many people with premium getting frozen and never getting their money back. I think the worst thing is that TNT doesn't automatically stop the premium and continues to bill you even after they freeze you. It screams scam and should be illegal. I won't surprised to see them on the news one day for being sued. (Okay, I actually really want to see that, haha:shifty:)

Then they play the $50,000 card. When you accept their TOS you accept if you're cheating they can sue you $50,000. Not that I think that it would ever hold up but you did accept this when you created your account so it would hold some weight.

Hey guys.

The past 2 - 3 months i've been breifly looking at flash game code on neopets and i've found a way of minimizing a risk of being frozen using a flash trainer. Just follow these steps keeping in mind if the game has an inbuilt timing system in it, I don't reccomend trainres with this functions as the times you complete the games in are sent and if the game has a maximum of 12 minutes play time and you have played it for 13 using cheats you will be frozen.

1. Run the trainer

2. If the game has a time limit then I can only give you one piece of advice and thats NOT to use trainers with an unlimited time function as they are the trainers that maximize your chances of being frozen if the game doesn't have a time limit just Load the game and wait to emulate a longer game play time.

3. When satisfied with the time you've waited play the game with cheats enabled & send score