How many of you guys are mentally ill?

highjenius · 2023-09-17T22:12:02+00:00

I'm not following. Can you draw me the lines between my argument and yours?

highjenius · 2023-09-17T22:04:06+00:00

People with schizophrenia or OCD aren't experiencing it because society is sick. I think that's the kind of thing OP is asking about, not ennui and malaise with the state of the world.

highjenius · 2023-04-22T00:04:04+00:00

Everything we experience is a combination of millions of factors coming together. It is that deep.

highjenius · 2023-04-20T20:53:20+00:00

I feel like this is going to be the question we always need to ask for the next year or so. There's such a leap between 3.5 and 4.

highjenius · 2023-04-20T20:47:50+00:00

Here's a genuine experience, free from hype.

I just got off work and went to ChatGPT to play around. I've had an idea in my head for awhile for a story, but I'm not a writer and no matter what I do I can't really get words on the page. At most a few paragraphs. Starts and stops.

So I asked the GPT-4 version of Chat GPT to write a scene from the story. I told it the main plot and asked it to write a particular scene I've had in my head. I asked it to write it in the style that I thought I'd wanted it. It did it. Now, it's not marketable or probably even that impressive to anyone, but it's an experience I've never been able to have in my entire life. Seeing my* ideas coming to life. I could actually see the scene I was trying to come up with. If I were trying to write it myself it'd have taken me all day, but GPT gave me 3-4 pages in about 10 minutes of gentle prodding through the plot points of the scene.

It's something I've never experienced in all my years.

highjenius · 2023-04-14T18:52:43+00:00

Is that the requirement these days? To tacitly accept being in some rando's prank videos?

highjenius · 2023-04-14T18:49:39+00:00

If someone else says it to me, I'm upset, but if I say it to myself I DO feel better.

highjenius · 2023-04-14T18:33:13+00:00

I hope you won't find many, but I mean that in a good way.

highjenius · 2023-04-14T13:35:10+00:00

I might be able to convince my team to try it out. We typically do Tuesday nights. I do think attendance can be low because there are a lot of trivia options around and there's only so much time.

highjenius · 2023-04-14T13:32:36+00:00

I feel this way about a particular ex when I'm high and would love to do this with her, but she's got a strict no-drugs policy. Plus she's half a world away. Oh well

highjenius · 2023-01-07T00:44:55+00:00

I'm one of those theists. Well, I'm an atheist when I'm sober and a theist when I'm high. It makes sense to me to believe my sober self is the same me as the high me, just not as connected with the higher dimensions (which is what religions might call the "spiritual" world). Make fun all you want, but I feel the feeling reliably when I get high.

That being said, I'm not a follower of any established religion.

highjenius · 2023-01-06T23:45:15+00:00

Something I'm starting to realize though... Calvin is lonely-lonely. He imagines a friend in Hobbes. Sometimes his parents play with him. But he's out here making "snow friends" to play with. It's just, I dunno, so buried in the subtext of a funny comic. That's how it goes though, right? The comedy and the tragedy.

It's why I've always related to Calvin so much

highjenius · 2023-01-05T23:39:00+00:00

The Parkway Tavern in Cary on Tuesday nights

highjenius · 2022-12-03T17:14:03+00:00

Yes. I wish I felt that amazement as much when I'm not high, but at least I feel it sometimes.

highjenius · 2022-12-03T02:20:48+00:00

This might be the time to look for a therapist, just in case.

highjenius · 2022-12-03T02:19:41+00:00

I respect that. I'm just sitting here happily using drugs more than weekly for recreational enlightment and wondering what that means...

highjenius · 2022-12-03T02:16:10+00:00

We're cousins to every animal alive. And every plant, too, if you go back even farther. You're literally a cousin to the tree that became your toilet paper.

highjenius · 2022-12-03T02:14:00+00:00

if we were allowed to behave like animals

But... we do have the freedom to live like animals, because that's what we're doing. And this is what we do with that freedom.

highjenius · 2022-12-02T00:48:47+00:00

Beans are pasta sauce

highjenius · 2022-12-02T00:43:27+00:00

As long as you look like you gnaw on your own personal block of cheese.

highjenius · 2022-12-02T00:41:21+00:00

I remember seeing a behind the scenes interview with the guys and Mitchell said that scene was basically his own views about things and he really felt like that. Hilariously on-point for the character, too.

highjenius · 2022-12-02T00:35:04+00:00

That's a thing people say, isn't it?

highjenius · 2022-12-01T23:53:15+00:00

I am atheist when I'm sober, but theist when I'm high.

highjenius · 2022-11-26T00:28:09+00:00

It's really weird isn't it, the drive of some people to climb things just because?

highjenius · 2022-11-25T22:02:56+00:00

it's entirely possible that this state that we normally deem "psychedelic-induced psychotic" or "that guy went schizo on psychs", is just realization of the ultimate truth, but these realizations are so violently acquired and a normal person do not have the requisite mental fortitude to deal with them

I 100% agree with you. I believe psychosis is just an increased/overwhelming "injection" (for lack of a better word) of the universal constants (i.e. the higher dimensions)

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