Whole-known-network
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.nu/@plj" class="u-url mention">@<span>plj</span></a></span> isn't existence as an alive being inherently violent?<br />isn't to preserve oneself against other a violent act?<br />isn't your body committing mass killing this very moment, of every microorganism that could violate it?</p><p>to me, to consider violence is to consciously choose what, when, and how, but not *if*. the question of *if* has been answered with your birth</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> what do you mean? I’m curious, isn’t the violence targeted at/towards something?</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@unspeaker" class="u-url mention">@<span>unspeaker</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.noyu.me/@hikari" class="u-url mention">@<span>hikari</span></a></span> yeah that tracks</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.noyu.me/@hikari" class="u-url mention">@<span>hikari</span></a></span> </p><p>i'm pretty sure in all 3 cases my brain/limbics were emitting some chemical i don't normally produce</p><p>what weirds me out is the idea that some people are in this state constantly and that i might have met such not just once. for example 7 years ago i looked into the eyes of a certain person (that i only met that once), saw something distinctly coordinated, and since then have been getting random shivers down my spine for no reason, it happened again when i remembered</p>
<p>Kind of thinking "now" given that I have band practice tonight.</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> wait until the students consume it</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.noyu.me/@hikari" class="u-url mention">@<span>hikari</span></a></span> fun fact: being able to invoke this mental state at will is a learnable skill</p><p>you can also limit it to various parts of your mind, which is useful for more precise alterations. i don't do psychedelics anymore as i feel them to be too crude of a tool</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.nu/@plj" class="u-url mention">@<span>plj</span></a></span> i do not share that worldview</p>
<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://is.badat.dev/users/meithecatte" class="u-url mention">@<span>meithecatte</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.noyu.me/@hikari" class="u-url mention">@<span>hikari</span></a></span> yes, although i would sharply separate the addiction part of it for various reasons</p><p>mdma in particular is incredibly dangerous and nobody who is in a remotely precarious situation should be doing it, other than as an alternative to suicide</p>