Re: merry xmas thang :)

On Sun, 05 Jan 2025 09:26:41 -0000, He Who Sees All  
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:11:15 -0000, slider <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 27 Dec 2024 05:16:47 -0000, He Who Sees All
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 26 Dec 2024 12:14:30 -0000, slider <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 25 Dec 2024 05:22:04 -0000, He Who Sees All
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 24 Dec 2024 19:44:09 -0000, slider <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> ### - and so this is christmas
>>>>>> and what have you done
>>>>>> another year over
>>>>>> another just begun?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> smile, goodness only knows what's gonna be happening to us this year
>>>>>> huh,
>>>>>> nothing very good that's for sure! trumpy in the WH apparently wants
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> suez canal back, forcing massive change to the middle east all the  
>>>>>> way
>>>>>> from the canal and red sea through to the ocean, undoubtedly  
>>>>>> backed-up
>>>>>> by
>>>>>> the military and whatever else it takes to control that whole vast
>>>>>> area
>>>>>> cutting right through muslim territory, and there's bugger-all they
>>>>>> can
>>>>>> do
>>>>>> about it!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> dunno what iran's gonna do now, if anything, they've missed the boat
>>>>>> (the
>>>>>> last one leaving town) and are now right royally screwed/totally
>>>>>> isolated,
>>>>>> and are prolly gonna get their head kicked-in sometime soon one way  
>>>>>> or
>>>>>> another...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> otherwise, russia is up next and no one really knows what they're
>>>>>> capable
>>>>>> of if/when pushed into a corner, the problem with them being that
>>>>>> 'when'
>>>>>> they decide to act they usually do so straight away without any
>>>>>> notice,
>>>>>> and as such could launch an attack whenever they think it's time to  
>>>>>> do
>>>>>> so
>>>>>> and which has already come fairly close a couple of times, the last
>>>>>> time
>>>>>> being when our lady prime minister (liz truss) kept paranoicly  
>>>>>> peeping
>>>>>> out
>>>>>> the window and watching the weather channels for wind patterns when
>>>>>> warned
>>>>>> by the US that there was a 50% chance russia was gonna launch nukes
>>>>>> upon
>>>>>> ukraine and she was worried the fallout would blow towards the  
>>>>>> uk... a
>>>>>> 50%
>>>>>> chance!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and the situation has become even 'more' difficult since then??
>>>>>>
>>>>>> yup, it's gonna be a difficult year alright, especially with the  
>>>>>> likes
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> trumpy ruling the roost again (still can't believe they actually put
>>>>>> him
>>>>>> back in sheesh, talk about being desperate?)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> meanwhile, here's a word or 3 from probably one of the last
>>>>>> intelligent
>>>>>> people left on this planet, he's almost an old fossile himself by  
>>>>>> now
>>>>>> (and
>>>>>> looks it lol) and it's a bit garbled, but his message is clear  
>>>>>> enough
>>>>>> towards the end that humanity's down to our last chance to alter our
>>>>>> otherwise inevitable fate...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY9PZvK6CZs
>>>>>>
>>>>>> our chances imho not being very good if we've reached the point  
>>>>>> where
>>>>>> it's
>>>>>> all down to trumpy to decide what happens to poor old planet earth,  
>>>>>> so
>>>>>> not
>>>>>> exactly hopeful...
>>>>>
>>>>> And Merry Christmas to you too, Slider.  Thanks for the intellectual
>>>>> stimulation over the past few decades.  A shame this place is a ghost
>>>>> now of its former self, but a ghost is better than "never was...never
>>>>> will be".
>>>>
>>>> ### - Castaneda's intention to close his enterprise with a "golden  
>>>> key"
>>>> appears to have come to a conclusion, successful or otherwise not  
>>>> really
>>>> being the point, he apparently being content to let 'infinity' have  
>>>> the
>>>> final/ultimate say in the matter upon a job well done/impeccably
>>>> executed,
>>>> his work as a whole being no small thing, will, am sure, continue to
>>>> mystify people for generations to come if only because there's just
>>>> absolutely nothing like it or to compare it to, it stands completely  
>>>> on
>>>> it's own, possibly forever...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Take good care.  I've got family over at the moment, lucky me :)
>>>>
>>>> ### - i've slowly lost all mine one way or another so don't have to
>>>> bother
>>>> anymore, lucky me haha ;)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> By the way, did I tell you I have a prescription now for 30g of  
>>>>> flower
>>>>> each month for my insomnia?  It was pretty easy to get the
>>>>> prescription, next best thing to full legalisation.  It's good too,
>>>>> imported from Canada, 26% THC, a puff a night and no more waking up  
>>>>> at
>>>>> 02:00 and struggling to get back to sleep.  natural too, proper REM,
>>>>> deep sleep, all the alphas etc - and a good stone as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think you have the same in the UK.  Give it a belt, much better
>>>>> quality than illicit, cheaper too.
>>>>
>>>> ### - as kids we sleep up to 12 hours a day, and then 7 or 8 hours per
>>>> day
>>>> as adults...
>>>>
>>>> as old timers though, we need even less sleep/rest and can often  
>>>> get-by
>>>> on
>>>> just long naps...
>>>>
>>>> iow, it's not necessarily insomnia (an 'inability' to sleep) so much  
>>>> as
>>>> old habits die hard and you haven't kept-up with the changes, thinking
>>>> something's wrong because you no longer sleep 8 hours a day like a  
>>>> young
>>>> man and struggling to 'cure' it by doping yourself up when there's
>>>> essentially nada wrong...
>>>>
>>>> i.e., there can be medical/psychological reasons for insomnia in  
>>>> younger
>>>> people, but in older people it might not be insomnia at all, just the
>>>> need
>>>> for less sleep + a new/different/adjusted routine to handle it with...
>>>>
>>>> an alternative to dope is to use WILDs to correct/adjust the  
>>>> situation,
>>>> e.g., i made this short video re insomnia particularly back in 2020  
>>>> ('A
>>>> Radical Solution To Insomnia - The CURE!") because one observed cause  
>>>> of
>>>> insomnia in younger people is their normal unconscious sleep-routine
>>>> becoming damaged in some manner, i.e., they somehow lose the  
>>>> automatic +
>>>> unconscious part of the routine that usually pulls people 'into' sleep
>>>> without them realising it, and this can be corrected via learning to
>>>> WILD,
>>>> which is nothing less than the finding of that unconscious on/off  
>>>> switch
>>>> and being able to deliberately flip it one way or the other; either to
>>>> lucid dream with or to sleep as usual, the 'unconscious' side of it
>>>> removed!
>>>>
>>>> A Radical Solution To Insomnia - The CURE!
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDwYFfI4G_A
>>>>
>>>> check it out... if nothing else you might get a few lucid dreams out  
>>>> of
>>>> it, which, believe me, is a very interesting/intriguing thing to be  
>>>> able
>>>> to do... especially if one has a methodical kinda mind that likes to
>>>> explore/probe every aspect of things; there being another whole side  
>>>> to
>>>> our nature apparently - a whole third of our lives - that otherwise
>>>> remains unexplored by dint of our being completely unconscious to what
>>>> happens during it...
>>>>
>>>> and happy new year to ya sport :)
>>>
>>> I have a lot of dreams etc.  I don't see anything mystical there and
>>> some are realistic enough for my tastes, believe me.  They aren't all
>>> pleasant and I'm glad to waken sometimes.
>>
>> ### - our ordinary unconscious random dreams are handled in an equally
>> unconscious manner and it's all left to run on some kind of routine
>> autopilot, which occasionally goes awry and we experience uncomfortable
>> dreams or nightmares; our emotional reactions during these dreams
>> affecting and even dictating the course of the dreams, especially the
>> scary ones haha...
>>
>> if one is fully aware it's all going-on, however, it's a completely
>> different ball game and one can thus get to play around inside one's own
>> subconscious mind in a completely detached manner and the facility of
>> someone having a photographic memory, there being nada 'mystical' about  
>> it
>> except from what people have erroneously ascribed to it down the ages;
>> various religions & cults getting hold of the concept and turning it all
>> into something befitting their whatever-narratives at the time...
>>
>> remove all that pure 'conjecture' from it though and what's left is a
>> purely practical affair, one in which it's revealed there's quite a bit
>> more to our awareness, and what we can do with it, than perhaps  
>> initially
>> meets the eye, various historical accidents - valuable breakthrough
>> formulas accidentally learned/stumbled-upon in dreams - giving us  
>> various
>> clues about its possible useful application if we can ever learn to
>> control it and use it wisely...
>>
>> the 'problem' with it all being that the things it tends to suggest as
>> 'activities' doesn't jibe with the way we go about things in the waking
>> world, and is in fact suggestive of there being an entirely different,
>> perhaps even conflicting philosophy to the one we more usually identify
>> with...
>>
>> this last perhaps being the root cause of various alternate cults &
>> religions formed around it in various attempts to explain its alternate
>> origins and purpose; people's propensity for religious thinking often
>> turning the ability into yet just another religion...
>>
>> i also made this short video re using/applying this ability of ours
>> perhaps more practically; as a tool we could learn to use that advances
>> learning, there apparently being no limit as to how far one can go with  
>> it
>> as absolutely everybody has a subconscious mind that's literally stuffed
>> to the gills with unremembered, unconnected information... everything
>> we've ever seen, heard, felt, thought about and/or overheard, all neatly
>> filed away and forgotten about but still accessible... the otherwise
>> routine unconscious selection and cherry-picking of which is entirely
>> dictated by lifestyle, need and the times we live in... the only  
>> exception
>> to this that we're aware of, being how a hypnotist can somehow guide
>> people to specific memories as though they were actually there reliving
>> them, WILDing being literally this same ability albeit you yourself are
>> consciously guiding/directing it all instead...
>>
>> 'The Making Of Genius'
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6soLcW1hxcQ
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Turning back to medical grass.
>>>
>>> I spent 20 minutes online with a Nurse Practitioner (a RN who can
>>> prescribe) describing my occasional insomnia (wake for a piss at 0200,
>>> can't get back to sleep for 3 hours or so) and my attempts to use MJ
>>> for sleeping purposes (for the last 55 years actually).
>>>
>>> She passed me as I had been prescribed temazepan but I do not like
>>> taking pills of any kind and they make me groggy next day.  She
>>> prescribed 30g (1 oz) of indica (not sativa) with less than 1% CBD but
>>> at least 27% THC (the buzz), three different types, all imported from
>>> Canada, grown in greenhouses not fucking hydro, no contaminants,
>>> government control etc and I've ordered, paid and received the
>>> excellent buds in a proper tub with my prescription on it and the
>>> words "Controlled Drug" all over it.  I can take it on planes, in the
>>> car, and it's fucking STRONG - way stronger than the sativa I've been
>>> smoking all these years.
>>>
>>> I just looked at https://curaleafclinic.com,  https://releaf.co.uk ,
>>> https://www.alternaleaf.co.uk  and they all operate much the same as
>>> here in Australia.  Alternaleaf is one of the largest in Australia
>>> actually, but I went with easykind here - 5 minute questionnaire
>>> online, book appointment with their GP or NP, 20 minutes of fairly
>>> gentle questions, prescription, wait a few days, online portal
>>> available, order, pay online and delivered to the front door (in my
>>> case from Melbourne, 4000km away) in 2 days.
>>>
>>> Give it a belt pal.  You won't regret it.  If that is, you have
>>> insomnia or something similar and you've seen a quack about it.
>>>
>>> My script is for 1 gram per day.  30g per month.  That's a lot of high
>>> quality shit.  Costing around $280 AUD per 30g.  No more dealers for
>>> us.
>>>
>>> Cheers, have a great New Year.
>>
>> ### - i hear you :) and have seen the adverts for these various  
>> companies
>> online, the whole thing being a ruse to gradually sneak weed usage into
>> society by the backdoor until it's eventually legalised en-mass, what
>> they're scared of being a kind of hippy-rebirth, weed/smoke use giving
>> rise to yet another alternate philosophy that, just like lucid dreaming,
>> doesn't quite jibe with the way society's currently organised... it is,
>> however, a promising new industry with the potential to earn billions!
>>
>> they want/need the money! so all we really gots to do is to live long
>> enough to see it legalised for recreational use, it's just annoying that
>> everything takes so long, have been waiting 30+ years haha ;)
>
> Look I'm not a kid anymore.  I barely remember my youth.  I'm happy to
> have a pipe, and not much more than a puff or two, at night.  I
> couldn't imagine being stoned on grass all the time, nothing would be
> worse now at my age.  Also, too much water under the bridge which
> doesn't lead to a real carefree existence all the time, some of the
> time yes, but not all the time.  Stoned on weed is good when the
> mental burden is light, not when it's heavy.
>
> So, to me there isn't any difference now between legal recreational
> weed and medical weed - it's the same weed, imported from all over the
> world, not much grown here in Australia, high THC if you want it, not
> much on the expenditure side either.
>
> I've slowed down a lot as I got old(er).  Still sharp but far more
> serious about things.  No longer the 1973 hippy with the mushroom
> jeans on tripping on acid and smoking a lot of pot.

### - was only being kinda sarcastic re waiting until it's legalised etc,  
they've been talking about that nearly forever here in the uk, ever since  
it was banned in fact back in 1947 or thereabouts, the uk being one of the  
last to make it illegal and only under protest at the time seeing as  
they'd virtually raised a whole empire off the profits of  
importing/exporting dope worldwide (cough-cough, sorry i meant 'spices',  
riiight...) ;)

otherwise you and i are very different then in that respect, because for  
someone you accused of knowing nada about it altogether i've actually  
smoked it near enough every single day since age 17 or thereabouts after  
being introduced to it at college heh (how that happened actually being a  
great story just in itself, one perhaps for another day...) the only 3  
items i genuinely took away from college being weed, lsd & my first real  
girlfriend lol, a year after which i dropped-out altogether and which i  
considered was plenty enough education for moi, the rest was rubbish ;)

and whereas you kinda look down on weed and from what you say above: don't  
think that much of it etc, i'm completely the opposite and see it as  
having been instrumental in shaping not only my whole outlook but also my  
later education to a higher degree... kind of like a tv interview i saw  
years ago about our controversial channel-4 sending one of their indian  
reporters to the indian mela festival, something that takes place every  
year in india and then you see all these holy men covered in grey ashes  
traveling to it from right across india and beyond, every 33 years being  
some kind of special super-mela event having some kind of astrological  
significance to it, the same 33-year event the buddha is reputed to have  
attended back in his day and apparently caused quite a stir...

so anyway, they packed this young naive uk-indian guy off to the mela to  
go see/report what it's all about, 100's of 1000's of these holy men  
descending/converging on the place like the muslims do at mecca only  
bigger! and this young indian reporter dressed in a dark 3-piece suit lol  
and his big channel-4 microphone, is going around asking all these holy  
men questions about what it's all about and why it's happening + what it  
all means etc etc etc... and at one point asks this typical looking dude  
he was interviewing why he was smoking hashish so heavily (everyone in the  
tent is literally chuffing-away on chillums and pipes and stuff like  
there's no tomorrow lol) and doesn't all that drug-taking interfere  
with/contradict all his holy man spiritual practices??

and this holy-man dude pauses mid-puff in a cloud of thick smoke, looks up  
surprised at this reporter, a look of humorous scorn clearly crossing his  
face for a moment and almost rolling his eyes, replies: my young man,  
don't be so stupid, don't you 'realise' it was smoking hashish that turned  
me INTO a holy man in the first place??? you should try it!

and then he went back to honking heavily on his chillum ahahaha... our  
young reporter looking clearly dazed/shocked, not only from that guy's  
rather surprising remarks but prolly also from all the thick fumes lol :)))

get it?

that for 'some' people it's a total lifestyle, one that may or may not  
eventually turn ya's into some kinda holy man hehehe...

go figure ;)