lifestyles Archive through July 14, 2004

it'd be nice if i could really believe it
but i can't.
i believe in destiny,
and some lifes are just supposed to suck.
that's part of the drama of life,
like shakespeare said
we are all bit players who strut in the spotlight for a few brief moments.
some play the role of hero,
or jester, some are kings
and some are wretches.
the divine comedy is also a tragedy,
in the traditional sense of the word.
some people, quite simply,
are doomed,
screwed from the git go.
maybe they're born with a heart defect
or some other minor flaw that will forever
shape their destiny,
or maybe they'll be struck by lightning
or hit by a car,
could be almost anything.
these people are the current cast of 'bit players', who have only a minor role
others are 'stars', headliners destined to act out their roles in the spotlight,
like brittany spears or ted kennedy, etc.
this things just happen,
people really have very little control over
their destiny.
and even being spiritual is of little help
i guess my take on it
is that life is too precious to spend it
building a 'house'
that will soon be vacant, condemned, torn down,
no matter how nice it was.
seems all 'religions' want to talk about
discipline, sacrifice, control.
you gotta give up meat or sex, etc.
i just don't buy into that whole scheme.
i think god is a hedonist,
why else did i get billions of nerve endings
to tickle?
i'd rather be drunk playing beach volley ball
with a bunch of young bikini-clad babes
than chanting
om mani padme hum
in some temple.
i think god would agree.




(Message edited by admin on May 28, 2004)

"i'd rather be drunk playing beach volley ball
with a bunch of young bikini-clad babes"

When was the last time that happened to ya hip??

I used to have the same outlook. We are all gonna die anyway so fuckit. But I don't think that way anymore.

And you are right some lifes are gonna suck worse than others. But I have noticed that people with handicaps are often happier people than those with nothing to complain about yet that's all they do.

I've never given up sex or food for a religion.

And life is about controlling your thoughts and emotions. Without control we are always gonna be bouncing from one emotion to the next because thats the way they hit us.

Just like the way you try to keep order here. Apply your logic of fuckit and what do you get other than the Nook??

You may see the common man as a bit player but I know for a fact that any bit player or pawn can win the game. All it takes to be a star is to be comfortable with your life and make it fun and enjoyable for yourself and friends.

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last summer
but it won't be long now,
the water's getting warm.
but i was at the titty bar
last week,
with a bunch of drunken lesbian soldiers
fresh back from kosovo,
does that count ?

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And life is about controlling your thoughts and emotions. Without control we are always gonna be bouncing from one emotion to the next because thats the way they hit us.<!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote>
interesting point,
and to some extent
i'd agree.
but even self-control is a talent
that not all are blessed with in abundance.

"with a bunch of drunken lesbian soldiers
fresh back from kosovo,
does that count ?"

Just watch out for the glowsticks and naked pyramids....

Where do you go for a beach? Is it a lake?
Just curious cause I know what state you live in and it looks pretty landlocked to me.

take care.

"but even self-control is a talent
that not all are blessed with in abundance."

Indeed that is why it would be a good thing for people to learn how to cultivate it in themselves.

I am one of those scatter brained spur of the moment folks that has a really hard time with self control. But I'm working on it for a couple months now and I can see an improvement in myself.

You have to be the change you want to see in the world, I believe that was Ghandi.

Just like with negative thoughts. Imagine these thoughts are just the negative pole of vibrations. You can't get rid of them by fighting them. You get rid of them by focusing on and letting in more of the exact opposite end of the pole, positive vibrations (thoughts).

Just like a dark room you don't get rid of the dark by shoveling it out. You don't even touch the dark you just open up a few blinds and let the light do it for you.

Hey its working for me. Haven't drank in 2-3 weeks, which was a nightly thing. Haven't smoked cigarettes in 3 days now. When I think about a cig I just ask myself if I really want to die from cancer, no, ok then don't smoke.

I want to be as strong as possible in my mind.
I want to live as long as possible in my body.

i have seen non-smoking non-drinking healthy youngsters struck down at 20 or 30 years
and i have seen smokers who guzzled beer like
it was water live until they're 70 or 90.
no rhyme
no reason
no choice nor control.

"i have seen non-smoking non-drinking healthy youngsters struck down at 20 or 30 years
and i have seen smokers who guzzled beer like
it was water live until they're 70 or 90.
no rhyme
no reason
no choice nor control."

I think everybody has seen that.

I never said I could or would want to control what happens. I just said that I want to be able to control myself while its happening.

Actually NOT trying to control everything has been the toughest part.

"You won't let go because you're affraid to fall but the day may come when you can't feel at all"
-robert hunter, Comes a Time

Just curious.

Got my old truck fired up, board loaded up.
No beer though and lots of sunblock, man I'm getting old

No waves either but there never is. Today is knee high and choppy with about 18 mph winds.

First time out this year. Only downside is this fucking bandage on my thumb where I damned near tore my nail off with a hammer yesterday. But shit happens. Which reminds me I better bring some duct tape.

Have a good day!

my point is quite simple-
if you want to smoke,
smoke.
if you want to drink,
drink.
you're going to die anyway
and no one will even remember
you were ever here.
so enjoy what time you have,
you never know when it'll be over.
the entire earth's destiny is quite fixed,
it too is doomed,
the clock on the sun's life
is already over half gone.
an asteroid can end all life here
tomorrow or even tonight.
a tiny blood vessel in your brain or lung
could rip, killing you or making you a vegetable.
so quit worrying
about statistical risks that take 30 years to happen, if ever.
so what if charcoal smoke has been linked to cancer, grill anyway if you like,
odds are it won't be cancer that kills you
anyway.
and even if you should die,
that too was destiny,
everyone dies.
it's no big deal.


(Message edited by admin on May 28, 2004)

I agree with Hippie. I live my life according to my own thoughts. Living according to any other would just feel constraining and wrong to me. I just live the way I see fit and do as I please, who better to direct my life than myself.

Dude, I love it. June gloom is hitting hard but the water has been above 60 most days.

Approx where, may I ask, do you like to surf?


I like San Onofre, myself. But lately been lots of local bs, never understood that shit, but it is what is it....

[lothar187]

I tried surfing once...It was soo much fun!

My only problem is that living right in the middle of the continent its hard to go on a regular basis.

I live in NC.
Man I'm out of shape.
Pretty rough today and a little bigger than I thought. My arms are hurting.

Good exercise though. The water here is about 80.
Durring the summer it gets so hot it doesn't even cool you down.

Next month I'm going to buy another board since I've lost some weight. I can't even duckdive this monster I got now. It just tosses me about. I'll hang on to it for small days which are the majority here.

Hope everybody had a good friday.

Oh yeah, shaved my head today. There's something very cool about the barber shop. They even still have the striped pole outside. When they are done they get your neck with a straight razor and then slap on some of that old man aftershave. It's a great place.

looks like karl marx imo
lucky this isn't the mc carthy era

(Message edited by davros on May 29, 2004)

you know,
it'd be cool to be tiny, bug-sized.
there's a whole world below our ankles,
vast 'forests' of grasses and weeds
and great 'beasts' prowl, on the hunt.
beetles with horns, armored rolypolys ,
grasshoppers and fireflies, soldier ants.
a twig becomes a mountain,
a worm hole
a vast cavern.
i'll have to try it again
my next trip.

(Message edited by admin on May 29, 2004)

That would be cool! You could get a blanket and lay down in the back yard...

Lots of good people here with good ideas for tripping. My best shroom trip ever was running around the backyard and woods at 3AM.. Naked! It felt primal.. Like I was one with the forest. My lady was keeping an eye on me of corse.. LOL! You should try this hippie...

One would be ill advised to do this in the city.

Now that has me freaking.... WHOOO!

Yes! This is very interesting... Great concept hippie. I would want to do it outside. Might be interesting if I layed down in the garden and did it. Definatly a new perspective. I have been "BIG" tripping but never "Small". It would be an interesting example of "the emerald tablet".

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My best shroom trip ever was running around the backyard and woods at 3AM.. Naked!<!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote>

Yea after I posted that my lady was laughing her hind end off as she read it on her computer upstairs.... Ha HA HA HA HA HA!!! It was a cold night what can I say! LOL! "On being small"

I thought I was the king A-hole in this house!

HAHAHA

It begins with Love
It begins with Passion
It begins with Carboxylic Acid
It begins with Giering
It begins with stress
It begins with seperation
It exists with insecurity
It burns with fire, inside of your soul
Love, Passion, Friendship, all slips away with the slightest lapse of appreciation.
So many question into one's mind.

Hehehe let me say it was interesting. One night I was on a significant amount of Lsd. A few friends and I wondered into the woods to camp. At some point in the night I ended up climbing and jumping out of a tree in the pure dark(it was the only way down), I had a run in with a herd of cattle and I among other things got to experience a bugs perspective.

I remember I found a huge hill and I was on top of it. I decided to lie down and when I did I was on my back. I looked over to my side to see the grass right by my head. My vision zoomed in and I was able to see vast forests and jungle like landscapes expanding into infinity. I sat there looking into that unique and special world for about 30 minutes...following little trails I could find through the grass. It was quite an amazing view point.

i just read something on erowid about salvia effects whit cannabis

the first time i smoked salvia was in an old hashish pipe that had a lot of resin lol

here'S what i saw
- Some people find combining with Cannabis more effective
Some people report that they are unable to achieve any significant effects with Salvia divinorum (even 10x extract) unless they use it on top of a solid base of smoked Cannabis.

maybe its the reason that it took me about 7 times the volume ...or maybe its my lighter that don't burn hot enough to vaporise the salvinorin well

ill buy a butane lighter soon

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It was a cold night what can I say! LOL! "On being small" <!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote>
there was shrinkage eh ?

can you see
thru the eyes of another living creature
when you're in vision-mode ?
i have.
a sparrow becomes a T. Rex
when you're just a beetle.

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My vision zoomed in and I was able to see vast forests and jungle like landscapes expanding into infinity. I sat there looking into that unique and special world for about 30 minutes...following little trails I could find through the grass. It was quite an amazing view point. <!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote>
YES!!
makes me understand better
how vast the universe really is
in both 'directions'.
[larger or smaller]

(Message edited by admin on May 29, 2004)

there was shrinkage eh ?

LOL! Yea 6 grams + 40 degree weather turnes the big B+ into a Penis Envy...

Hmmmm.. On a more serious note, Check this out Hippie3:



THE EMERALD TABLET OF HERMES

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...
.....


True, without falsehood, certain and most true, that which
is above is as that which is below, and that which is below is as
that which is above, for the performance of the miracles of the
One Thing. And as all things are from One, by the mediation of
One, so all things have their birth from this One Thing by
adaptation. The Sun is its father, the Moon its mother, the Wind
carries it in its belly, its nurse is the Earth. This is the
father of all perfection, or consummation of the whole world. Its
power is integrating, if it be turned into earth.

Thou shalt separate the earth from the fire, the subtle from the
gross, suavely, and with great ingenuity. It ascends from earth
to heaven and descends again to earth, and receives the power of
the superiors and of the inferiors. So thou hast the glory of the
whole world; therefore let all obscurity flee before thee. This
is the strong force of all forces, overcoming every subtle and
penetrating every solid thing. So the world was created. Hence
were all wonderful adaptations, of which this is the manner.
Therefore am I called Hermes Trismegistus, having the three parts
of the philosophy of the whole world. What I have to tell is
completed, concerning the Operation of the Sun.


Hermes Trismegistus

yeppers,
my namesake
hippie trismegistus

you've been talking those pixies again ? lol
getting into early summer ,the fruits are starting to show...
gooseberry


white mulberry


blackberry


amaranth sprouting


tobacco sprouts ( i think ) they seemed to have survived the cloudburst well

fahtty

and then there are flowers too
the digitalis likes to walk around the garden ,choosing new places each year


and these are from bulbs ,don't know the english name


the morning glories are happyly gripping around the bamboo on their way to the sky (heavenly blue)

Roo/Hip: I'm sure you've seen these books.



"The Secret Teachings of All Ages" by Manly P. Hall

What an immense tome! Been looking for it for a long time...when I found out my brother had it, I had to borrow it from him! The title doesn't lie...it's all in there!

Here's a scan:

When I was a depressed teenager, all I could really do
was sit and think sometimes...about everything.
Lots of insights that were eventually
confirmed by my first psychedelic trips.
Not long after,
I began finding these kinds of books
Turns out, they've been confirming
just about everything!

(Message edited by exshroomer on May 30, 2004)

Oh yes, I am Adeptus Major in the A:.A. That was 10 years ago..

LOL! Never wanted to go to the inside of the circle. Prefer to seek my own way.

The lower picture has many secrets in it.

(Message edited by tehuti on May 30, 2004)

A:.A=Astrum Argentum=Order of the Silver Star?

Rock On!!!

http://www.philosomatika.com/


They are playing some awsome stuff tonight, all Goa/Psy. LOL!! SHaking the windows in the whole house...

LOL! My dad got me in the Masons when I was young also, so I moved pretty quick in there. Pretty much the same symbolism. I am not active anymore but I want to be a shriner. I want to do the clown thing!!

We make good men better... I wonder if there are any other fellow travelers out there?

I think Hippie is doing the same thing here. Forming a secret society of sorts. Thats why I think it best we stay on the underground as long as we can.. We can do more there than in the open.

I am going to steal that last pic for something. Sorry Hippie I feel bad, like I am stealing this thread..

(Message edited by tehuti on May 30, 2004)

[cedargrove]

myco, what a wonderful place you must have.

I really enjoyed that third pic...

Thank you, each one of those pictures hold something near and dear to me.
The third picture is the sun setting on the island of Maui in Hawaii, when I went on vacation there a few months back. I took about 25 pictures of that sunset, hoping just one would turn out just right, and just one did.
I'm glad you enjoed that picture though, brings back great memories for me.
Peace

Near my part of the world there were massive wild fires last Oct and it was the worst I’d ever seen. It shut the whole city down and many were forced to sleep in the local football stadium. The sky was red and the smoke so thick the city was dark for 3 entire days.
The local terrain here is coastal chaparral and it has evolved to both survive fire and to use fire in its growth cycle. Many of the native seeds are germinated only with fire.

Here is a picture of the scorched hillside but note the growth at the bottom of the scrub oak and the California oaks. This is where the fire was the least hot and the first place these fire resilient plants begin to grow.



And a close up of the growth at the base of a California coastal oak. These trees are strong and healthy despite being burned completely above ground.



There are tons of California poppies coming up everywhere!



Very surprisingly a Coyote melon plant has made it thru the fire and is growing very nicely. These plants give gourds about the size of a soft ball and although they aren’t as strong as other gourds the Native Americans used them for a variety of things. The kids and I like to pick them when they’re green and paint them. When they dry the seeds break loose inside and they make great shakers.


And all over the hills you can see life returning stronger than ever. Sunflowers coming up everywhere.





And here are some assorted picts of the area including one to show how close the fire came to houses nearby. I think over 500 burned to the ground, many right near where these picts came from.





Even cactus plants have learned to live thru fires.

very impressive !
with part of my house burned some years ago ,i know how it feels a bit,we were lucky no human victims
great pics of life rejuvenating itself
phoenix rising again

philosomatika is the only psy station broadcasting at 192kbps. Very good if you have a decent connection.

If you have winamp5, checkout the radio section and filter for psy and you'll get a bunch of other good stations too.

Oh yes.. There are many good ones on shoutcast. Have listened for years. Its nice we have such a thing or there is no way most people would be able to listen to such music. Another blessing of the net.

Thats part of the natural ecosystem there. A good fire does wonders in preserving the ecosystem, unless you lose your house in the process it is quite interesting.

Great pics man!

assumed you just found out about the stations.

it's just too bad I can't shake my window panes the way you do. headphones are good but nothing beats music through a good sound system.

LOL! Thats on my computer system.... I just have a normal one in the living room.