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Post by bonanzadriver on Jan 27, 2022 13:19:57 GMT -5
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Post by terrapinflyer on Jan 30, 2022 6:29:01 GMT -5
Nonfiction: Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks (The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat). Sketches of different neurological cases involving--you guessed it--hallucinations. Fascinating.
I don't think Grateful Dead concerts will be discussed.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jan 30, 2022 11:53:08 GMT -5
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Post by terrapinflyer on Jan 30, 2022 12:28:15 GMT -5
Neurology is trash?
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jan 30, 2022 12:33:45 GMT -5
No I’m reading trash!
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 30, 2022 12:44:40 GMT -5
Nonfiction: Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks ( The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat). Sketches of different neurological cases involving--you guessed it--hallucinations. Fascinating. I don't think Grateful Dead concerts will be discussed. My best hallucinations were during and following the previously discussed Jethro Tull concert. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 30, 2022 12:46:17 GMT -5
Mathew.
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Post by terrapinflyer on Jan 30, 2022 13:18:57 GMT -5
No I’m reading trash! I won't tell. |
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Post by terrapinflyer on Jan 30, 2022 13:20:17 GMT -5
Nonfiction: Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks ( The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat). Sketches of different neurological cases involving--you guessed it--hallucinations. Fascinating. I don't think Grateful Dead concerts will be discussed. My best hallucinations were during and following the previously discussed Jethro Tull concert. It happens. |
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Post by Plainsman on Jan 30, 2022 17:57:23 GMT -5
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Post by toshtego on Jan 30, 2022 18:59:39 GMT -5
Intellectually, he leaves so many of his contemporaries in the dust. A brilliant man. So brilliant a psychologist that he didn't know Klonopin causes dependence... Psychologists sometimes do not follow drugs and medications since they are not licensed to prescribe them. Just my observation from knowing them. |
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Post by toshtego on Jan 30, 2022 19:07:49 GMT -5
My experiences with psychedelics, long, long ago in a place far, far away, produced no hallucinations. Plenty of insights and ideas but no visible manifestations. Not a quality issue because I had access to Augustus Owsley Stanley III LSD and peyote buttons. "Owsley" was a fanatic for purity and quality. Never had Sandoz Laboratories Pharmaceutical LSD, as far as I know. That was priced out of my budget back then.
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Post by terrapinflyer on Jan 30, 2022 19:40:19 GMT -5
I think "hallucinogen" is a bit of a misnomer. One may experience profound disturbances of information processing without perpetual manifestations. And at less than just plain reckless doses, one knows that the visual/auditory/tactile apparitions aren't "real."
Of course, the Bear was convinced that vegetables are poison. Maybe an occupational hazard of large scale acid synthesis? Maybe he was right.
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Post by pepesdad1 on Jan 30, 2022 19:44:16 GMT -5
My experiences with psychedelics, long, long ago in a place far, far away, produced no hallucinations. Plenty of insights and ideas but no visible manifestations. Not a quality issue because I had access to Augustus Owsley Stanley III LSD and peyote buttons. "Owsley" was a fanatic for purity and quality. Never had Sandoz Laboratories Pharmaceutical LSD, as far as I know. That was priced out of my budget back then. Met AOS many years ago (when he was brewing it down in his grandfather's basement) and enjoyed some of his orange sunshine...peyote buttons were fun to grow...had a friend who brought them back from the Sonora desert. Kept them alive for several years down in Miami. Just finished Lustrum by Robert Harris (last days of Cicero in Rome)...now on to The Wars of Afghanistan by Peter Tomsen (traced the history of Afghanistan and it's tribal conflicts throughout history. Quite a book! |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 30, 2022 20:43:29 GMT -5
I think "hallucinogen" is a bit of a misnomer. One may experience profound disturbances of information processing without perpetual manifestations. And at less than just plain reckless doses, one knows that the visual/auditory/tactile apparitions aren't "real." Of course, the Bear was convinced that vegetables are poison. Maybe an occupational hazard of large scale acid synthesis? Maybe he was right. I accidentally took 10 tabs of windowpane, after a micro dot and a green goddess football" weren't working", yet I always knew what was real and what wasn't. But it was a wild ride that lasted about 18 hours. It works by blocking your sensory inputs, to the point that your brain starts filling in the blanks with whatever your mind can imagine. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 30, 2022 20:52:21 GMT -5
No one taught me about the holocaust. I don't remember it ever being mentioned in school or anyone talking about it. I found out about it in the barbershop where I got my first haircut. They had 2 books that fascinated me. One was a hardbound edition of Small Arms of The World and the other was a pictorial history of the holocaust and the camps after the liberation. The first one started my interest in firearms. The second one deepened it. |
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Post by Plainsman on Jan 30, 2022 21:00:45 GMT -5
If we live long enough we have a “life event,” an event or series of events that become, whether we want it or not, the single most moving nexus of our lives. I learned about the Holocaust in a movie theater in Gainesville, Florida in April of 1945. I don’t remember the main feature, or the cartoon, but the newsreel is seared on my brain. It showed the Allied troops liberating the concentration camps. I was a couple of weeks from six and my mother reached over and clamped her hand over my eyes. I slapped her hand away and saw true horror for the first time. It has never left me.
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Post by Gandalf on Jan 30, 2022 21:23:25 GMT -5
G-Man by Stephen Hunter - a Bob Lee Swagger novel.
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Post by terrapinflyer on Jan 30, 2022 21:26:56 GMT -5
* "Perceptual manifestations" above, not perpetual. The other would be not good.
We had a brief section on the Holocaust in Catholic high school history, early 80s-ish. They showed us Night and Fog. That movie haunts me. My dad read extensively on WWII, so I was made aware before that. I have his copy of Mein Kampf. There is a wealth of documentation and analysis and it's all so disturbing that it must be very difficult to give an overview in school in a week. It was years later that I learned about the Vatican's actions during that period, but they gave us the gist.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 30, 2022 21:51:43 GMT -5
If we live long enough we have a “life event,” an event or series of events that become, whether we want it or not, the single most moving nexus of our lives. I learned about the Holocaust in a movie theater in Gainesville, Florida in April of 1945. I don’t remember the main feature, or the cartoon, but the newsreel is seared on my brain. It showed the Allied troops liberating the concentration camps. I was a couple of weeks from six and my mother reached over and clamped her hand over my eyes. I slapped her hand away and saw true horror for the first time. It has never left me. I was probably about that age in the barber shop. My mom was next to me and never said a word. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 30, 2022 21:55:30 GMT -5
My experiences with psychedelics, long, long ago in a place far, far away, produced no hallucinations. Plenty of insights and ideas but no visible manifestations. Not a quality issue because I had access to Augustus Owsley Stanley III LSD and peyote buttons. "Owsley" was a fanatic for purity and quality. Never had Sandoz Laboratories Pharmaceutical LSD, as far as I know. That was priced out of my budget back then. Met AOS many years ago (when he was brewing it down in his grandfather's basement) and enjoyed some of his orange sunshine...peyote buttons were fun to grow...had a friend who brought them back from the Sonora desert. Kept them alive for several years down in Miami. Just finished Lustrum by Robert Harris (last days of Cicero in Rome)...now on to The Wars of Afghanistan by Peter Tomsen (traced the history of Afghanistan and it's tribal conflicts throughout history. Quite a book! Afghanistan has a lot in common with the USA. We've both been constantly at war since the beginning. Their beginning is just a lot further back than ours. |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jan 30, 2022 22:07:03 GMT -5
Was in the Navy with avChief Warrant Officer who was in the army when they liberated Dackow, Eisenhower got the village next to it and made the people march thru it. Chief Woods said they gave them too much food and some died right there so they had to back off. He joined the Navy afterward, would talk about what he saw there when he got drunk, for some reason I was the only person who could handle him when he was drunk, that’s when I got the real story , very sad for Chief Woods it marked him for life.
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Post by urbino on Jan 30, 2022 23:16:29 GMT -5
I don't think we ever got to the 20th century in h.s. American History. We fought the Civil War, and then we were free for the summer.
I'm still working on the Grann book. I'm not sure what I was expecting it to be, but it wasn't what it is.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 31, 2022 0:26:03 GMT -5
R.U.R.
It's been a long time. Think 1920 Bladerunner prequel.
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Post by toadgoblin on Jan 31, 2022 8:49:05 GMT -5
My diet at the moment is made up of the following. I am going through Fagles', The Odyssey, with some friends of mine. I am leading someone through Thucydides', The Peloponnesian War. The lady and I are reading Pride and Prejudice, and then when I finally have a moment to myself I am working through Kant's, Critique of Pure Reason. Homer has been the greatest joy by far, and after going through the Iliad with the same group I am convinced he is the second greatest writer of all time behind Plato, and by far the greatest writer outside of Philosophy. Tolkien is one of the only writers that comes close, but he and every other writer that tries is a Daedalus to Homer's sun; close, but no equal.
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Post by urbino on Feb 5, 2022 22:57:34 GMT -5
Just found this out. Apparently, Martin Scorsese is currently making a movie (or miniseries?) from Killers of the Flower-Moon.
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Post by urbino on Feb 10, 2022 21:01:05 GMT -5
Just started Steven Rinella, American Buffalo. Not sure what I think of it, yet. So far, it's a bit like reading a Wikipedia entry, with personal interjections.
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Post by sperrytops on Feb 10, 2022 22:11:30 GMT -5
Nonfiction: Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks ( The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat). Sketches of different neurological cases involving--you guessed it--hallucinations. Fascinating. I don't think Grateful Dead concerts will be discussed. My best hallucinations were during and following the previously discussed Jethro Tull concert. Ah, takes me back, Jethro Tull does. Hot days in Tucson, attending the UofA, staying high on weed, and listening to Jethro Tull. Those were good days. Then I transferred to UCLA and life got real. Oh well. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 10, 2022 22:15:15 GMT -5
My best hallucinations were during and following the previously discussed Jethro Tull concert. Ah, takes me back, Jethro Tull does. Hot days in Tucson, attending the UofA, staying high on weed, and listening to Jethro Tull. Those were good days. Then I transferred to UCLA and life got real. Oh well. Reality is overrated. |
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Post by terrapinflyer on Feb 11, 2022 7:13:48 GMT -5
Ah, takes me back, Jethro Tull does. Hot days in Tucson, attending the UofA, staying high on weed, and listening to Jethro Tull. Those were good days. Then I transferred to UCLA and life got real. Oh well. Reality is overrated. I tried it for a while. I was the only one there, though. So lonely. |
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