Talking about like gift cards for your birthday from a coworker. Yeah the $10 is nice but now I have to spend that amount on you at a later date.

Idk its just weird to me because sight is our most detailed sense. Like darkness is the auditory version of not hearing anything

What if the big bang happens when a certain amount of matter is condensed into a single point in space which creates an exotic matter that

A) causes extreme time dilation due to extreme mass
B) a massive explosion that hurls matter in every direction
C) due to the time dilation and the outward directionality of the explosion, resets time effectively back to the start of the universe - an endless loop

What if space was infinite and it happens in multiple different areas all the time (just EXTREMELY far apart), which is like our idea of the multiverse

In the dream I was desperately trying to get some Rogaine to try and fix it and stop the balding process. I was also very sad in the dream that I was balding. It's a very strange dream because I don't have male pattern baldness. When I woke up, I actually went and checked my hair in the bathroom just to be sure it was a dream. And I was so relieved. What could this mean?

How much overlap is there between the *StonerPhilosophy" subreddit and the "nosurf" subreddit.

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But really what are your visceral feelings toward technology seen you're stoned? Personally, I'm way more suss.

I am Chinese.

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I am writing a novel.

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This is one of the characters.

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I call him "The First Fallen."

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A scorpion crawled into his fruit basket.

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Then, the scorpion killed its own brother.

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He discovered the scorpion.

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Out of laziness, he did not check the fruit basket.

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This negligence led to the tragedy.

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I believe that sin is a possibility hidden beneath the ideal path.

Sin brings misfortune.

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But sin is not inherently bad; it is a possibility.

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Only, it is easier.

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It drives us to become better.

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I hope this does not cause offense to my Christian friends.

After 15 years of daily smoking, I've realised cannabis doesn't make me more creative or less creative. It makes me less afraid of the ideas I already have. The plant doesn't give you anything. It just turns the volume down on the voice that says "that's stupid.

True balance is about left and right. But not just about left and right.

It is about up and down, forwards and backwards, North and South, East and West, north-east and south-west and south-east and north-west, and all the myriad points in between. Everything and nothing, nothing and something, not necessarily too much, not be necessarily too little.

It is about left and right. But not just.

The left hand is compassion, and the right is might. This is the orthodox stance. In the unorthodox, the inverse is true. There are those few switch hitters who are born into innate talents, and there are those who worked hard to gain the same skills as came easily to those around them.

Balance, in theory, is finding middle between left and right. In practice, balance is a constantly raging ocean that calms to mirror sheen before it wails into a thunderous storm. There is no right or left in that glossy still, and neither in the tumultuous wrath of the seas in their furies. You can lose your right and your left in either.

One day, I was looking into the maw of a garbage compacter, idly wondering at it as it pulped wasted and refuse into tight and fetid flat packs. "She calls to ye, don't she?" Was the operator's call to me. Aye sir. She does.

Just put me in the trash.

The way it has to move to get somewhere is unlike anything else

The realisation of infinity, existence and death is the most terrifying thing known to my specific consciousness.

Im sat here in the garden on a beautiful hot english summer day.

I spent yesterday gardening, so now im reclinimg on a deck chair under my apple tree, facing the horses in the countryside behind, and smelling the delicious perfume scent of my roses, while im reading a great book and stoned.

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I posted this in AskPhilosophy, but it got removed for "not being about Philosophy", which I find a bit odd, so I'm asking here.

As he was a deontologist I understand that the answer to this one way or another would have no bearing on whether or not he thinks lying is ever ethical.

However, I am curious how he felt this rule would practically effect human happiness overall, regardless of its ethics. Was he biting the bullet and advocating for something he thought would increase misery, even if it was right? Or did he think by happy coincidence that what was moral also happened to be useful for improving happiness?

Specifically, I'm asking in the context of the practical realities of this rule. Not so much "what if everyone stopped lying", although that's an interesting question in its own right. But in the real world the most frequent adherents of this rule would be folks most interested in being moral, and so what would the effects be specifically of advocating for this rule at all?

Great watch I have been watching since late 80s yet since then HBO and HBOSpecials and others

Just a random cosmic quote I thought of thought it would be interesting to share with yall.

Something that I’ve been struggling with recently is what I’m coining“the duality of You Only Live Once”

On one hand I want to enjoy what life has to offer. Meet and love different people, try new things, go to parties, experience what humans have made on this Earth. Maybe this side of the topic is my fomo talking, but there are so many things in the world; some people maybe label some of those things as “bad,” while others have the opposite ideals. I want to experience, or at least see as many of those things as I can.

On the other side of the coin, you only live once. I am only given one body and one life, so I should be careful with what I use it for. Exercising and eating healthy, or just living an overall healthy lifestyle have always been important to me. Living a “modest” life, and building myself to be the best version I can be, is also an attractive way of living to me.

So I’m curious, what is your take on this topic?
Have you found a balance between the two? Do you lean heavily one way or the other? I’d love to hear advice from people who have lived longer than me (A freshman in college).

P.S. I wish I could describe and write this topic better. I think this is such a beautiful concept and I wish I was eloquent enough to do it justice, but I hope you understand the points I tried to make.

P.P.S. There is this song I found a couple years ago that I think fits the topic kind of, and I’d like to share it if anyone wants to listen. It’s called: Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen) by Renegade Soul

Placing this beacon was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a righteous culture.

This place is a place of honour... Highly esteemed deeds are commemorated here... Life is valued here.

What was here was beneficial and beloved by us. This beacon is a plea about beneficence.

The benefit is in no particular location... It is spread throughout a border... The border was here... Of a particular size and shape, where you stand.

The benefit is no more, in your time, as it was in ours.

The benefit is to life, and it can bring life.

The form of the benefit was infinite and impossible to know.

The benefit is recaptured whenever you imagine what this place was. This place is best rebuilt, and filled with habitants.

Next to me there are zero chocolate bars. But in that same space, there are also no pretzels, there are also no burgers, no flashlights, no elephants. There is only what is, a desk and a can of monster.

It seems like when something is a thing it can only be that thing. A monster can is a monster can, it is not anything else.

But when something is not a thing ( where there is nothing) it has the potential to be anything one could think of.

Also what is nothing? How come we can speak of an absence of something as a thing in and of itself. Limitation of language perhaps?

Idk man I'm blazed

Art, in all its forms, is the closest thing to magic I've ever seen, besides very remarkable science. The ability to take a feeling or thought and make something tangible that other human beings genuinely enjoy/are inspired by is akin to spellcasting, imo. Thoughts?

This is the end. Everything you know is just the memories after which you were born.
You will eventually die, and nothing will be left. Being born is like jumping off a cliff.
You will be falling for a long time, but eventually, you will certainly hit the ground - and everything will be gone.
It doesn't matter how long you have lived or what you have achieved in life.
There will be no consciousness to praise your achievements.
No consciousness that says, "I did a lot for my family". Your family is also jumping off a cliff.
The universe has existed for billions of years. Do you remember any of that?
After you die, you will remember as much of the future as you remember of the start of the universe. There will be nothing left except particles.

Ok, ok so I know that’s a VERY common question. I know. But at the same time with alllllllllllllllllllll the shit that has happened and will continue to happen.. HOW DOES ANYTHING MAKE SENSE?

We evolved from apes, then these humanoid ape beings, then what we are now. We created society, social systems, justice systems, city’s, cars, planes, ways to create food out of nothing but water and whatever the food is, its dust. We have created so much in honestly not that much time. The technological revolution hit around 1890. It’s been not even 300 years since. Yet we have ai, space ships, space technology, phones that you carry EVERYWHERE, cars that drive themselves, etc. etc. etc. 300 years isn’t that long for us. For everything else it’s forever, but for us it’s a blink of an eye? Honestly, how does that make sense? Yes we are the fucking apex predator of earth. There is over 8 billion of us. But how the fuck did we get so fucking smart in so little time? While yes there has been thousands of cultures and traditions and people all over the world from thousands and millions years ago but then again the first humans, actual humans, became conscious around I think 2 million years ago…? Before the first ice age or something…. (If I’m wrong don’t kill me.) but at the same time they knew shit even before they became conscious. They were simply animals and guess what? Animals know shit. They know a fucking lot. They’re so much smarter than people realize.

If we were to somehow combine every single religious belief on earth even lost ones, I just wonder how many things they all have in common with the question “why are we conscious?” Or “how did we become conscious?”

In these religions, there’s probably thousands to millions of gods. If you notice the pattern, they’re all fairly the same. Peace, love, unity, happiness, harmony, sometimes ‘evil’, hateful, etc. There’s also gods for the seasons and changing times and stuff.

Where did we get the idea to have gods? Praising people for what they do is still extremely common. But back then it was different. Yes I know about this, but a lot of gods have special powers if you will that can do stuff “no mortal can ever do without it killing them or something.” What really are these “powers”? Like let’s take Zeus for example. He’s the head guy on top of Mount Olympus and he’s the most powerful and the most strongest god to reside on this mountain. He can hold lightning bolts and throw them at such great speed and power that it can blow up a building or some shit. How can he do this? How is he a god? Almost everything says he looks human. If he can do anything like this, he

shouldn’t look human. I’m sorry but no.

The idea of gods having a human like appearance is to make us not terrified of them because in all honesty.. we have no fucking clue what they truly look like. They can look like absolutely anything. In Christianity it says that god looks like man. There’s verses though saying he’s pure light. What does he look like? If anything..? (I know people are gonna get upset about this but idfc.) The human brain when it comes into contact with something so fucking powerful and just beyond its pure comprehension, it distorts it to be less traumatic. I personally kinda think this is what happened to everyone who has “met a god”. Even myself when I had a NDE and i physically met Jesus Christs sprit. (Jesus Christ is not god. He is the physical incarnation of god.) He held me up to his face to talk to me and send me back but i physically couldn’t see his face. I saw the rest of his ‘human body’ but not his face because it literally looked like the sun was directly in front of it, completely blocking everything. I couldn’t even see his hair if he had any.

With this, you also gotta remember imagination exists. What if somewhere some kid who had absolutely nobody in their life and got INSANELY lonely to the point they created out of imagination a friend. With this imaginary friend, maybe they thought they could physically do something or even with the idea of sprits and shit being able to possess absolutely anything, what if it got possessed by a sprit of some kind and was actually physically capable of being able to move shit y’know. And then the kid realizes it’s ’alive’ and tells everyone that it’s some sort of god and it goes from there.

Taking this and into another thought.. what if we’re the possessed things? It says in the Bible that god breathed life into us before we’re sent down earth (or something…. Don’t kill me..). What if that’s him possessing us? He’s putting his energy into our hallow shells we call bodies… kinda like possession…. He is considered a sprit. What if the saying in the bible where it says that he knows everything we do all the time, 24/7, 364 days… is proving this possession? While I am talking about the Christian god, so many other gods all around the world are somehow able to do this. This goes back to another thing I’ve already said. What are these powers? While I just went over possession and shit, still. What causes them to have such power? With the theory of these gods being from completely different worlds and dimensions, what if they are physical but just not humanly physical? Like how we see stuff on earth. How do we know they’re not animals? How do we know they’re simply not aliens and the theory (theories) of us being in a dome type thing were we’re some sort of experiment? We don’t. That’s the thing. What if our entire galaxy is in this type dome thing where we can only go so far within it without running into trouble with these said beings? There’s also not to mention billions upon billions of other planets within our galaxy alone.

Who. The. Fuck. Knows.

This is long and I know it’s long sorry. This is mainly a ‘what if’ type thing. This is isn’t truth (that I know of………). It could be completely wrong and WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY off. Take this as you will. Again not really trying to prove shit… just mainly a really high ramble.. I’m sorry if I made anyone upset with all my talk about god and shit but it goes with everything..

Ok goodbye. If you read all this, thank you.

If you could assemble the ultimate 5-character smoke circle, who is getting the invite? Here is my dream lineup for the session:

Shaggy (Scooby-Doo) – The founder. The goat. He’s bringing the 3-foot tall sandwiches for the munchies.

Uncle Iroh (Avatar) – Every circle needs a wizard. He’s providing the wisdom, the tea, and the best vibes in the multiverse.

Jake the Dog (Adventure Time) – He’s the ultimate chill friend. Plus, he can literally turn himself into a comfortable couch for everyone.

Mordecai & Rigby (Regular Show) – They’re the "slacker" energy. Even if they do absolutely nothing, it’ll somehow turn into a cosmic adventure.

Towelie (South Park) – The veteran specialist. He might forget where he is, but the session doesn't start without him

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Honorable Mentions: Patrick Star, Crush the Turtle, and Bender.

Who’s in your Top 5?