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It wore off, and I haven’t had that experience since. There was a solid week after, though, where I was paranoid that I would go back into that hallucination. I imagine that’s fairly normal.

I could definitely see the ‘flipbook’ effect experienced being heavily influenced by past experiences. The ‘wheel’, though, is a massive circular thing of colors and geometries, so it’s not really based on any experiences. The depictions of the samsara do have interesting similarities, and it would not surprise me if ancient people tripped, then tried to describe the trip they had, and came back with the samsara. I could also see how describing the wheel as having many eyes could make it fit the description of biblically accurate angels.

The whole seeing the universe is probably not just because we invented wheels. There’s been many people who’ve all described seeing different versions of “The Wheel” during salvia trips - but also in near death experiences sometimes.

It’s quite possible that these types of hallucinations could have contributed to the concept of the samsara, and possibly angels and other concepts relating to divinity.

Edit: to add personal anecdote, I’ve previously seen this hallucination after taking a bad rip off a bong. No one else had issues. My guess is that my brain was not getting enough oxygen since I was having trouble breathing. I basically tripped this while laying face down on a bean bag for several hours.

Yeah, but that means I gotta memorize 60 characters for each number in base 60. That ain’t no fun.

This isn’t about gardening is it… This is specifically about stealing succulent clippings from the Lowe’s garden center isn’t it?

Sophists: I’ll be a pedant for you… For MONEY

You didn’t even credit the artist in your original post (someone else had to in the comments), and yet you expect others to care that someone crossposted your post.

A thing to note is that it’s socially okay to call people we dislike stupid because our society is naturally intellectually ableist. We are saying that a person has reached their incorrect views because they’re mentally handicapped, rather than pointing to other reasons for their intellectual failings.

At the same time, we’ve grown up in this environment and it’s difficult to remove that kind of language without some habits to replace it.

Wherem’st?

Dat dango conso playing dat dango game!

Talking out both sides of its mouth is a very powerful tool for a state. You can preach all kinds of hard-to-deliver forms of freedom and liberty, and then you deliver just enough that the hegemony feels satisfied and then you can stop bothering.

That trick is getting harder what with all the smart phones and websites making it easier and easier to see through the facade. You can still crush whistleblowers without much issue, though. And if you flood the web with all kinds of things, people won’t know what to believe!

360° of pockets -> 360° of rock spin.

Your friend would have to give a shit about one’s freedom of speech, though if they have no issue with how Russia and China handle those issues, they likely already think that a state suppressing it’s peoples’ ability to protest is sometimes good.

It’s also a red flag that they would say “whatever Russia and China does, it’s certainly not worse than what Capitalist nations do”. We all agree that what Capitalist imperialism does is fucked up beyond measure. Russia and China did/do things that were/are unacceptably fucked up, and saying ‘still better than capitalism’ is a smokescreen to skirt around an objective conversation about how terrible those actions taken still are.

You’re friend’s a tankie. They’re likely already down the pipeline. How you handle them IRL is up to you, but I personally would not continue interacting with them, for my own mental health.

This meme is from ages ago innit? I think I saw this shit in 2008. And yet, no jpg.

This could’ve been a Shadow the Hedgehog meme. Could’ve been.

Kowalski, Analysis!

I’m confused. Isn’t quadrant 2 usually the authoritarian left and depicted with red? Meanwhile the Authoritarian right(blue) is still quadrant 1 and Libertarian right (cream) is still quadrant 4. So who’s the polar bear??

This whole compass is all wonky and now I don’t know whether I’m ok with murder or not.

“You’ve activated my trap card, your son is banished to the shadow realm!”

No, hostile is exactly the word. These are not tactless mistakes - no one is living under a rock and unaware of the conflict of gender. They’ve either digested transphobic rhetoric and accepted it or they’ve understood the obtuseness of the binary and course corrected. Frankly, if you haven’t course corrected, you deserve hostility from the trans community imo.

The only reason someone would be asking what sex you are is if they are wanting to play cloak and dagger romance, where you never state your intentions and still somehow expect to get into the other person’s pants. That’s not a healthy way to romance and never was, and is likely a big reason for why such a large proportion of people get sexually assaulted in the US.

The issue of trans people in sports is a bullshit non-issue and has been for a while. It is exclusively a talking point to try and get laymen to agree that trans people should be regulated. It’s conclusion is the policing of all women’s bodies. It’s already been debunked to the moon and back, so if you don’t give a shit enough to even look up how stupid your claim is, You don’t deserve any amount of respect or tact in this conversation.

The question “are you male or female” in any convo outside a medical screening is also rude (and kind of a poor question in that context). The question framing is also explicitly hostile towards not-binary identification, as it’s assuming that the person’s biological sex matters more than their own self-perception.You should instead just ask their pronouns or how they identify.

It’s passive aggressiveness responded in kind with passive aggressiveness. The questioner also keeps pushing, so the gun is a very explicit and aggressive “BTFO and let me live my life, stop trying to force me into one of your boxes”

EDIT: Godspeed, mods o7