DocAzz
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Ah dont rule out the kicks......A good Thai kick to the leg or kidney's will drop the best of them, seen it many a time!
Yeh I don't think I'll be throwing kicks high than the thigh - don't want them caught. Its fine in Muay Thai, because they won't try to catch it, then shoot-in for a takedown
I might ask my thai fighter mate (he won last night!! he was a bit rusty, but he has that killer instinct!) how to really toughen up my shins, so its like swinging a baseball bat everytime I kick. The poor fella that faced him last night had some really badly bruised ribs. Wouldn't surprise me if he broke a few, because they looked pretty bad even at the end of the fight, as normally they take time to puff up... but if they were broken he wasn't showing it. I guess that is the sport, turning your body into a hard weapon that doesn't feel pain, and breaking anything in front of you. Its a bit too wild for my liking. I dig the aggression, but I prefer the science of submission. You really have to know your anatomy.
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Just curious who else is into Martial Arts here... What do you study, for how long, and why that style? etc etc
I'll kick it off, shall I?
I started off Boxing when I was 9 and stuck with that for a few months before we moved up the coast. The local boxing gym up there was inhabited by people that wanted to learn how to belt the shit out of someone and take their wallet. Obviously my old man didn't want me in that environment, so I stopped going. Picked up Karate a few years after that, and did that for 3 years until we moved again. My new school offered Judo and Kung Fu, so I jumped straight into them. Then I broke my leg, and even after it healed it was still rat-shit. So all my training had to come to a halt, as I could no longer pivot on my toes.
Over the past year I've been using this hydro-therapy machine we have at home, and I can't explain it, but it works. For years I couldn't even walk for more than half hour, and now I walk for a living. 2-4 hours a day without a worry. The thick nasty scar I have is actually starting to heal... which I don't want, because it looks awesome!
So I've jumped back into my training, and this time I'm training with a purpose. I want to compete in a mixed martial arts event. So I need a few different skill sets. Stand-up ability, takedowns, and submission skills.
For the stand-up I'm doing boxing, and a little muay thai. I don't like the concept of kicking, as I can throw three punches in the same time it takes to kick, but knees and elbows certainly have their place.
For the takedowns, I'm doing Judo. Reason being is that they're mega-agressive (Judo competitors LOSE points for adopting a defensive stance during competition), and it isn't all that well known in Mixed Martial Arts circles. I like the agression, because most MMA competitions use the whole time-limit, I watch it and get frustrated that people aren't pushing the fight, they score a point and then just hold the other person down to win without really trying.
For the submission work, I'm training in the little known art of Catch Wrestling. A) very very few people use it, let alone know OF it, and
it answers everyone of the problems I have with Brazilian Jui Jitsu, which is the most common martial art used in MMA comps. In BJJ, competitors wait for the other competitor to make a mistake. Catch Wrestling forces mistakes. It is brutal, ultra-effective, and no one will know what I'm doing.
The Judo and Catch Wrestling cross over a little - there are a fair few submissions in Judo, and a number of takedowns in Catch Wrestling. So I'm going to mix-and-match taking the most effective techniques from both of them.
These three also help out with any serious problems encountered on the street better than anything else I've done.
With that said, I certainly know the benefit of the internal arts. The three I've picked now will turn me into a weapon in the ring. I think I'm about to take up yoga aswell, to keep me at peace internally.
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Never seen the white ones...
Interesting, Paradox. The atoms have a very slight bitter taste - could it possibly be the print inks? Otherwise tainted, you reckon? My other mate has been taking acid for... ooo... 10 years now, and he reckons its definately LSD in these ones. I'm certainly curious now about the bittering.
It seems I'm a freak with getting visuals. I've seen the world twist and turn, and reality just seem to bend and drip, yet my mate on the same dose gets masses of colours, and can "see" music. This changed with the tiniest rock of DMT. It wasn't even enough to get a buzz out of normally, but I thought "why not just use it up?" HOLY FUCK! I saw the funniest episode of Gilmore Girls ever. The missus was here watching it near the end of my trip. I saw one of the main characters walk in wearing a suit of rapidly moving grey polygons, and the daughter next to her was simply a human-sized ball of hot pink thread, tumbling around. That lasted for just under an hour!
I made her record the episode, so I could watch it in the morning as a reference point. I realised the second I woke up that it would be NOTHING like I remembered, and I didn't want to sit through a whole episode of that shit so I just didn't bother hehe
Is that a typical synergy with LSD & DMT, or does DMT have that effect on most other psychedelics?
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Really - if we're all adults, then how hard is it to say "well, its not for me, so i'll just click Back, and then hit another thread"
I'm not saying if I agree or disagree. My sole point is: Its not illegal, just immoral. Morality is subjective. So how hard is it to keep personal beliefs aside? I'd wager almost everyone in the thread would say things differently if we were all in person, around a campfire.
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azz, u love torstenMaybe ;)
So... ahhh.... Torsten... do I get those freebies, yet??
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Quote of the week goes to Torsten:
What a classic!!geez, I thought you left ages ago?But wait! There's more!
...that most of these threads are posted by guys who are still in their post puberty testosterone rush and cut them some slack.FUCKIN AY!! I still haven't stopped riding that wave!!!
Sorry, but I just had to throw my two cents in and have a chuckle!
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I've only had DXM so far, so I shant vote until I have atleast two others under my belt.
The ONLY problem I find with DXM is the hangover, otherwise its a really wild ride.
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Theres been a bit about this already written - check the SE - seems like a bit of hassle unless you are devoted...Basically you need to inocculate some chips and then incorporate them into the root area of pines. They form a mycorhizal (sp.?) relationship with the pines and then fruit later down the track. This has been done successfully in some areas, but you may find that they are already around you
But as this is relating to a sale - I say, go for it!
The world needs mushrooms!
I know where they grow in the blue mountains, but I've since found a creek near my place, with pine trees along it.
No fly agarics there, so I was wondering just how to go about getting them there ;)
I think I'm probably a bit too much of a novice to give it a go.
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The shop postal address is in Toongabbie about 40 mins West of Sydney.Toongabbie ay? thats right around the corner! Does anyone have an actual address?
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How easily do agarics take off in nature, from spore prints?
Considering there is a number of pine trees in a local park right down the road from a foaf...
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Dont dress like a junkie when you go to get themFor glass ones perhaps www.labx.com
Ha!
I've since found out that all public hospitals (in NSW atleast) have needle exchange units attached to them. Its free, but its unlikely they'll have anything but needles for junkies, 18 guage isn't really used in hospitals for much, and certainly isn't used for injecting people with. Still worth a shot.
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Where do you budding mycologists get your syringes, and needles, from??
I've got a couple of prints here ready to go under my microscope, but there seems to be squeeking in some parts, like it needs some oil. I figure the perfect way to get some lubrication inside the microscope is with a syringe....
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you actually havnt asked me privately not to do this torsten... you may have mistaken me for someone else(i hope so... or else you would just be lying outrightThats a bit of a smart-arsed reply.
Torsten is right, its a bit rude... it doesn't bother me as much, as I just think "ahhh the silly knob doesn't know how to quote yet."
I think whether Torsten has asked you privately or not isn't really the issue.
You don't have to be a smart-arse about it, and ffs... have some consideration for others.
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I've had next to no experience with any form of meditation. During my time spent learning martial arts, or any other time we were told to meditate, I was always restless. I'd wonder what everyone else was thinking about. I'd look around the room. Anything but meditate. I just didn't know how.... I still don't.
I have this instinctual feeling that all the work I need to do on myself can be done by myself. I just don't know how.
With the limited experience I've had with various psychedelics, I feel as though pathways have been opened in the space of seconds that would have taken months of pondering and searching. They are a "short-cut," if you will.
I have had revelations about my childhood, and who I am now. They have stuck with me still. I am living differently now - not much differently, to be fair, but it is still a change. Not a day goes by since that I don't think about it.
My two cents...
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I've had a few
My family and I have had problems with police for quite a while. Its not that we (especially my parents) do anything illegal. Its more of a few bad turns of luck. The worst one, as an example, involved an off-duty copper flying his car across our frontyard at 150km/h (he was REALLY drunk too) and landing on two cars in our driveway. We were lucky that I was away that weekend, iwth dads car, because I used to park right behind the other two, and he would have landed on the bonet! I should probably get the photos online, because I get serious looks of disbelief whenever I tell this story
This left a family of 6, 4 of whom drive, with only one car. A two-door coupe. As my brother just lost his job, and didn't renew his insurance, he had nothing to claim against... and I was a fulltime student, and they wanted $2000/year for a $3000 car. I wasn't insured either. As I said, the copper was drunk. There was a legal shit-fight on this point as the insurance company didn't want to pay, and after 18 months we finally got paid out for the two cars written off. In the mean time we had to buy two shitters for $500 each.
Events like this has given me a great amount of dislike for yer average copper.
I've since had many run-ins and never been charged with anything more than a speeding fine or parking ticket
There was one long story, and my mates and I were in the wrong. To cut it really short, one of my mates thought he was being smart (this was when we were already at the police station!) and was mouthing off at the cops. I told him to shut his mouth or I'll break his jaw. I appologised profusely and they let us go. They said we were free to go, and said "You're not bad fellas, just absolute dickheads when you're drunk!" and made us walk home. The smart-mouth lived the other direction from Jim and myself... after about 5 mins of walking, the cops pulled up next to us and dropped us home because smartarse wasn't with us anymore!
Nearly got busted for indecent exposure - I thought the police were treating a patron of a club rather unfairly. I mouthed this off at quite a volume. One of them said "yeh and you're next asshole"... I pulled out my nuts, and said "you can suck my left one if you think yer gunna get me for nothing!!" Little did I realise in my drunken state that indecent exposure was the something they would have pinned on me! But then a couple of bottles started to rain down on them, and they hurried up to the paddy wagon and took off! I put my two mates away, and started giving them this
Started a "fuck tha police" chant in an already hostile situation in Bondi Beach one night. As it turns out, it was a Brazilian public holiday, and all the brzailians in sydney gathered at this one bar. The bouncers thought "fuck these spicks, lets be rednecks and start pushing them around cos they be different." So the brazilians got a little rowdy, and it spilled outside. My two mates saw this before I did, and grabbed me and started running in the other direction.... When this happens to me, I instantly want to stop and see what was going on behind me.... I saw... I ran towards it! The police came. The crowd gathered trying to tell them that the poor guy on the ground with 200kgs of lard on his back was innocent. The cops cuffed him, and put him in the paddy wagon. I could tell everyone was getting a little itchy. I started with "FUCK THA PO-LICE! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK THA PO-LICE!" and it caught on like a bushfire in december. I ducked, and got outta there. Went back to my mates, got a kebab and sat down and watched. The footage of me flashing the news chopper obviously didn't make the Seven O'Clock News the next night
The point with cops is that most of them have no desire to uphold the law... they're just rednecks on powertrips that like weilding guns. BUT they can still fuck you over royally. If you're actually in the wrong, then being a smartarse will only make it worse for you. If you stop and say "sorry officer, i was being a dickhead" then say it. It will probably save you alot of time, and its stopped me getting charged a few times... Like when I got pulled over doing burnouts on the local school playground at 3am! I was already up the road, and he didn't see it happen... but the grass and mud up the side of my car gave it away! If you KNOW you've done nothing wrong, you still have to be careful as they've got ways to bait you. When you know their tricks, as I've learnt, then shove it right up their arse!!!
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Ahhhh okey doke. So thin-ribs = keep walking?
Thanks for yer help guys... much appreciated.
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Extacy two nights in a row is a real mental fuckaround...What about lsd two nights in a row?
I've never had that desire... and I build up tolerances real quick too... especially with acid.
Thats what I love about entheogenics - you come out of it (sometimes) feeling like you have acheived something, but never get the urge to jump straight back into it.... maybe thats just me tho
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The fact that John Howard is a prime minister... And his only opposition for years was a fat man named Kim.
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Dunno bout everyone else but I'm definately down for whatever.The more the merrier, many hands make light work.
Structure's good but it has to be fair, maybe lay down some ground rules or something which those that wish to be a part of a collective can scrutinize and once it's all agreed upon "we" can go from there.
Ideally I'd like to see a collective of minds with clearly defined objectives where no member out-ranks any other member and no-one does anything before having there plans scrutinized first.
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table... Not even Arthur sat higher than anyone else.
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its 3 - 0 - 1 mate
I was born on the 30th of January, not the 33rd
I've always liked the number 3 tho, and often consider myself No.1
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Good stuff AzzI agree with everything you said, I'm considering this an unorganised organisation at the moment, wether it gets organised or not I'm not sure. I got the impression from the other thread, the mythbusting one, that there are heaps of people waiting to surf this wave but the crowd seems to be to dying off and everyones starting to paddle in.
Whatever (and if anything) comes from this it should be intelligent in achieving it's aim but not neccessarily intelligent - this is what your getting at with your Cougar example isn't it? To me that's the hook that's gets them thinking i.e. the seed, meme, etc. That's what I wanna spread.
When you get an idea make a mental note and then add it to this thread - doesn't matter how vague just get the gist across, only if you want to though.
Hell yeh, I love to get rowdy and make a little noise! Nothing I love more than a good riot! I'm the first peson in any crowd to start an NWA "Fuck Tha Police" chant
My first idea is that any "plan" should be moved somewhere private, and with restricted (selective) access.
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This stuff is music to my ears!Shit needs to be intelligent at some level but intelligence doesn't usually ram anything home. People still smoke even though intelligence says its bad. People still drive fast even if though they know it's dangerous. This is human nature, minds need to be blown apart before they can be put back together with the right shit.
I'm happy to go out there and cause a ruckus with absolute absurd attention grabbing shit just to create a who-ha that directs people in the right direction.
This project could be a sub-division of the main cause.
Tell a bloke that you can learn about the secrets of Quantum Physics on the net he probably won't go look it up, tell him that there's this group stirring up a lot of shit that's worth checking out he just might.
Ultimately the truth needs to be spread but it's hard to get people to care about the truth without some triviality/novelty involved.
Keep in mind things don't need to happen tomorrow, the site could be developed over an extensive period of scrutiny, Erowid etc. is good but it still has the element of "abuse drugs about it".
Be back soon
Yeh, I think its more the approach, and the means, that needs to be intelligent and well planned.
Consider the Cougar Bourbon ad - "Five cougars, thanks" he says after looking at a massive pair of tits. Its an idiot being portrayed, but the intelligence behind it was what made it a successful ad.
With that said, I'm always up for a bit of hell-raising!!
I think that by staying on here, and brainstorming, we're pushing shit up hill... we will probably get over the hill one day, but we're gunna get covered in shit in the mean time. This really should be done in person. More pathways can be explored, and people can bounce off each other in the space of seconds. But therein lies the greatness of the internet - it connects people that wouldn't normally be connected. Personally, I work better with people than I do on my own... I get great ideas, but lack the motivation to follow through on them.
To start anything along these lines, a definied collection of crusaders needs to be put together.. then a plan derived from the collective.
I like the sub-division idea... multi-pronged attack.
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True, all true, but ..are you marketing? are you fighting a war? or are you informing the ignorant?
what stance do you take towards the people you educate. in what manner do you want to 'project' this information on to them.
generally-ignorant people are not necessarily bad, nor our enemies for any other reason than the chance that they never learned some truth.
i'm not asking you azz, but i dont know what, or if there is a general consensus on how you want to perceive your audience and deliver your proposals to them.
btw, i like webpage concept too. a home-base for all info could be controversial, but would be handy for countless reasons.
All of the above, mate.
Marketing is a tried and tested, proven tool to get people to listen. Marketing is a tool I will use in the war against the powers that be, to inform the ignorant.
This needs to be tackled intelligently. As I said, much love and respect for anyone that stands up for a cause, but if it is not tackled via proper and intelligent means, then it shall fail. They will get disenchanted, and lose hope in their cause as they don't see any difference being made by their efforts. They burn-out.
The aim is to make a difference to the world we live in. And should a war erupt, then I'm ready for that too. I fucking believe in this, and I'm not going down without a fight.
EDIT: The ignorant masses aren't our enemy. They're our brothers and sisters, and they need help.
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i think discretion in relation to your position in being against anti-drug propaganda is up to the individual. if someone is enthusiastic, i would rather be open and try to rally them to the cause so to speak rather than ignore their enthusiasm and leave saying 'vote wisely'I would agree if people weren't programmed to be anti-drugs straight off the bat. Before we do anything we have to consider our enemy, and how it works. Only then will a plan of attack really come into fruition. I commend anyone with the courage to stand-up and protest the anti-drug laws, but it is a fruitless exercise when no one will listen.
Valid point about the webpage being hard to coordinate - but I think its necessary.
You give people enough information to want to look something up... just enough to get their brains ticking over. Then have all the information they could want on the webpage. Little marketing device. No ad gives you the full details of the product, it just makes you want the product.
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Yeh I guess bitter, for the atoms, isn't really the right word. You hit the nail on the head with "metallic."
They definately have different doseages, and differing degrees of that metallic taint, even on the same sheet.