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Hi everyone. Are there any adult SAB forum members with diagnosed & medicated ADHD? (not self-diagnosed ) ps Hi to all my old SAB friends PM me if u'd like to get back in touch!
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Can creative people survive in a jungle of numbers?
caludia replied to jay6785's topic in Creativity, Spirituality & Philosophy
nice post Jay....can i be frank? a quick venture online shows the prevalence of aspies (look at fucking Wikipedia for the LORD's sake!), unnecessary hyperlogic, narrow technocratic viewpoints it's borrrrrring! look at the way ppl dissect opinions by doing that "quote" BS and replying to each element of a post like it was an academic treatise pisses me off no end, and i am just 35 yrs old. Fucking imagine what a crotchety git i will be at 70. Lung cancer cant come too soon Go to hell! modern life was always rubbish but its starting to stink more with each passing year information my foot. Singularity BS... or if it's a singularity god help the rest of us. analyze THAT -
ok thanks 4 that
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agree re: using QM as an excuse for evidence and argument when none exists... however i think you are too quick to categorize ESP as a 'crackpot scheme'. there are mysteries (does anyone really think that after a couple of hundred years of 'scientific method' humans now know basically all there is to the Universe??) take the Philip poltergeist conjuring in Canada in the 70s. Plenty of other examples exist as to why even "everyday consensus reality" and physics may not be all there is to the story. and that doesn't even address a more solipsistic viewpoint such as McKenna's where your particular state of consc. may reveal underlying non-time-dependant (synchronistic) logic (or illogic) to the Universe. and since i can never be another, i have to take my own perceptions, confusion, biases seriously.
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Do subatomic particles have free will?
caludia replied to nabraxas's topic in Creativity, Spirituality & Philosophy
I think it's like the turtles anecdote "the earth sits on a turtle" "what does the turtle sit on?" "no use asking, buddy... it's turtles all the way down" i reckon consciousness wouldn't be an emergent phenomenon of complexity, for that would be like creation ex nihilo so everything, all the way down (and up), must have the spark and this of course leads to pantheism (or panentheism if you are not assuming that what you see is all there is) -
i can def see how that would be... one thing's for sure, it does have a strangely targeted effect on alertness. I just wanted some stronger euphoria to go with it. But if you got strong euphoria plus alertness + no major heart rate/ blood pressure changes, well then, the thing would be illegal wouldn't it? ;-) Can certainly see how the desire to work gets improved (or aggravated as the case may be ) i'm just glad i had a chance to try it... always good to try something new.
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i know there have been discussion here b4, but.....
caludia replied to XipeTotec's topic in Ethnobotany
re: khat, they seem to strike strongly if you keep them nice and humid in addition to warm in fact, i remember striking at 80%+ even when nighttime temps fell under 10 deg C. With warmer temps the strike rate was even higher. Sphagnum seems to work well with em too.. -
good to hear from you too yep, can surely see that it could be a benefit in that regard. i have taken up bouldering/climbing as a hobby (indoors), and unlike ritalin or even coffee, modafinil doesnt raise my heart rate or bp (do you get the same result?), and so there doesnt seem to be much danger in taking it even when you are exerting yourself. i climbed extra hard when i was on this so i do see the benefits. i think i would just need something to go along with this to provide a bit of artificial enthusiasm, you know, in conjunction with the "awakeness" no point being awake if you're bored like me better off going to sleep, resting and regenerating, and going to dreamy land where i can be a viking like ralph on the simpsons in fact there was a slight rush to this... just not a euphoria. a standard dopamine-style sense of "can-do" i spose. just not my thing atm.
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i ahvent posted for a while since i dont really have anything to add, but i saw this topic tonight and thought i'd better chime in ;) i got a script of this hyper-expensive thing a couple of weeks ago, after reading some articles about how it's supposedly a 'smart drug' and can at least keep you awake with no ill effects and no crash. like most people i get the afternoon sleepies, and i enjoy grabbing as many unfair advantages as i can over my fellows effects were noticeable at 100mg, not all that much more noticeable at 200mg actually, so i reverted to 100mg and took it for about 4 days straight, in the monrings with my coffee and then sometimes in the afternoons too. the cost here in the USA was $230 for 1 month's supply, called provigil over here. After my health insurance company decided i could have it (in the USA, it's your health in surance company, not your doc, who decides what medication you can take... docs will just prescribe anything you ask, in my experience), the end cost was $80. to be honest i thought it was a letdown... very specifically targeted, nothing other than a trifle more alertness and a definite difficulty in falling asleep. Def kept the afternoon blahs away too. if i ever get excited about anything in my life again, and need/want to stay awake and put in monster hours, this will be handy. Until then, it's useless, for me at least. No euphoria, no increased clarity. Just less desire to fall asleep. i can def see why it's good for airforce pilots too. Would be good for anyone on shift work really. oh, one more thing: it's by far the most effective appetite suppresant i have ever tried... i believe this is a major off-label benefit of the drug. Far more effective than hoodia at keeping hunger at bay. Induces a faint (but not annoying) nausea and puts all thought of face-stuffing to bed.
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something complex with an energy inflow and outflow, which tends to remain in equilibrium over time & needs this energy inflow and outflow to maintain this equilibrium?
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side effects of incorrect dosage may include headache, dry mouth, sleepiness. Oh, and flying, bodily transformation, and conversations with roomfuls of familiar people who swear they weren't actually in your room...
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Phenobarbital, USP (3/4 gr.) ................................48.6 mg Hyoscyamine Sulfate, USP ...................................0.3111 mg Atropine Sulfate, USP ...........................................0.0582 mg Scopolamine Hydrobromide, USP .........................0.0195 mg http://www.donnatal.com/professionals/prescription_info.asp
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It's amazing what's out there in Rx ! Thought i would never see such a combination of alkaloids, especially not for "IBS" http://www.donnatal.com/ Tropanes for constipation, i suppose. A bit of each of the faves - atr, hyo, scop, and some barbiturate for good luck. Wash it down after gorging at Burger King, when the stomach cramps start. You'll be right, mate.
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i havent drunk (or ingested) kava for a while because its effects are way too long lasting for me (2 days is not convenient) but when i used to drink it a lot, i still hated the taste. Darcy reckons that mixing into a sort of milkshake is good. I tried that but didn't agree in theend i used to just blend it together with orange or apple juice. No point trying to sweeten something as bitter as kava root just gulp it down... i used to just gulp down including all the roughage. Because after our experience with Elvis, we know that roughage is essential to good bowel health.