FancyPants

You can't go past Canon EOS dslrs. I have a 350D a few years old and a friend has a 40D, both great cameras.

Thanks for the tips I'll get started on the weekend.

I spent my 18th birthday in hospital recovering from major surgery and with fresh new paraplegia Yeehah. But anyway, arnica is good for healing and was even recommended to me for a facial surgery I had a couple of years ago. Here's what I found from a website here to judge for yourself: Oh and happy birthday man!

Got my cuts, thank you so much I'll be planting a stem piece somewhere I don't mind it running rampant. Actually is this time of year suitable to plant it in Sydney ground? I should probably wait until it warms up again shouldn't I? My little caapis in pots seem to be doing well in the sun, one of which I think I can actually see the shoots growing in front of my eyes hehe. One more question, I've read that the material stores well without losing potency, but should it be kept dry? Frozen? Fine in a cool dry cupboard? Airtight?

Probably because if it is true and there are active amounts from extracted banana plant material, then the government or CSIRO probably isn't going to want to make this information public. I might feel inclined to move back to Coffs Harbour... If I had the knowledge and equipment I'd probably go up the mountains to get the fresh bananas from the driveway honesty boxes and do some further studies on those.

^^^ My one order with them (MGA) I haven't received. A $200 order. I don't normally order that much the first time new vendor, but I simply hoped for the best as I really wanted a particular item.

Last few days I've been smoking galbulimima bark with some nymphaea caerulea flakes. The nymphaea makes the galbulimima less harsh so it's smoother and the galbulimima ignites more evenly than just smoking it on its own. Well that's what I found anyway.

Right out of my mouth.

There's one on every board... nothing's ever good enough, starved for attention, feels superior to peers...

I usually just cram finely chopped Calea leaf into 00 capsules and eat three about 2 hours before sleep. I can't drink the tea and I can't smoke it. The first time I had Calea I'd missed reading the bitterness factor so I was keen to try some the first time I bought it but didn't have anything to smoke out of... what did I do? I grabbed a three-fingered pinch of it and stuffed it into my mouth. I was still trying to get rid of the taste hours later. I've given a friend who doesn't often dream some Calea and he had pretty intense dreams, emotional dreams as someone above said. Not in a good way, so I won't be giving him any more until he can sort some of the issues out.

I'm not 100% I'm thinking of the same plant, but I'm sure I've seen it a few times in common gardens. Or perhaps my grandma's garden or something.

ROFL.

What a great topic because it's one where nobody can be ridiculed for their opinion because there will never be an ultimate proof of truth of the afterlife. As someone above more eloquently said, I believe our living bodies (and other living organisms) are a concentration of energy only destined to burn for a short amount of time before life is fizzled out. Much like a star has a period of life before it burns up all its gases and dies. I wonder if ghosts are a lingering of this collection of energy/force because their will has remained after death. It seems that many ghosts and apparitions are of people who were treated terribly, or had lingering worries, family members to tie them to earth/physical plane. They're not ready to be at peace with things. When I was 17 I had major surgery and the following night after the operation (which went perfectly) I was accidently given far too much fentanyl via epidural catheter. When I awoke from the rescusitation team trying to save my life from respiratory arrest (stopped breathing for 2 minutes total) I looked up, having NO idea what was really going on - I thought they were routinely waking me for sleeping meds or checkup or something stupid - and saw people standing all around the bed. All dressed in white. I remember wondering why so many of them were standing around for a simple checkup. I don't remember much after that because I was too focused on them shoving the endotracheal tube down my throat to be put onto a CPAP and then breathing machine. A fucking horrible feeling which still gives me PTSD (and I'm taking deep breaths now hehehe). So I didnt' think any more of those people. About one or two years after that I had to go back to the same hospital for a fairly routine procedure and a doctor came up to me and introduced himself as one of the guys on the rescus cart team who saved my life that night. He recognised my name because of all the ruckus over my overdose. I thanked him profusely and something prompted me to ask why there were so many people there. He looked confused and said there's no way there were any more than 3 people helping at the time because too many people just get in the way. It may just be as simple as other nurses in the room tending to other patients, but I remember clearly they were all standing around the bed, or just to the side. Maybe 6 at least, but more like 8. They were all wearing white, but doctors wear white too so that didn't look so strange at the time. I guess if there's any place that's going to be filled with lost souls/spirits/whatever, a high dependancy unit in hospital is probably going to be a good place to start. I don't tell many people that story because I partly don't want to think about the implications, and partly don't want to diminish the experience by retelling it. I can't rightly say if endogenous chemicals (possibly as well as the huge amounts of rad opioid euphoria) made me feel happy and calm and just made me hallucinate, but there was no self suggestion that I knew I was going to die so made it all up; because I didn't know how bad things were. I don't think there's a Heaven or Hell in the Judeo-christian sense, but I think perhaps if you are a bad person in life and you die realising how bad you've been, you're possibly going to end up in a metaphysical state of dread or terror. Or the other side of the coin if you're at peace with how you've handled your opportunity at life, you'll be in a relaxed, peaceful state. I also think there are spirits out there who have perfected the art of "transcendence" and so may be less reliant on weak-energy signals like a ghost, but are more perfectly "mind" rather than any particles of matter. A more omniscient state. I think maybe these are what humankind has recognised as Gods or higher beings. I think there's too much coincidence regarding what people see with meditation, or merkaba as T ST said, or entheogenic experiences (like the envisaging of animal spirits via sapo or ayahuasca etc). We may as well call it the fourth dimension. Perhaps even the fifth dimension if we count fourth dimension as another "physical" one that just can't be seen - like time. I've thought too that all history is acted out at once. After all, by looking through a powerful telescope through space, we see the past as it is happening right now. We right now see nebulae forming that actually happened billions of years ago. At our current time of right now, another being could be looking through a similar telescope to see us. Their now is our current. Depending on your viewpoint, everything is happening at once, we just see it from a different perspective. This then lead me to thinking that if everything physical is happening all at once, then only our spirit/soul/mind is moving. It's our mind that move on while our body stays in the current time. Not sure if this is even making any sense. Bit hard to piece together the random ramblings of psychonaut musings. But you all know what I'm talking about in that regard anyway But these are just my current thoughts. Who knows what I might believe tomorrow? It shouldn't matter as long as I don't bring harm upon others. It feels better to be a good person than to be a crunt anyway so why not live and let live?

Shisha! Yeah I got to try it at a friend's house a couple of months ago and I was so surprised how smooth and tasty it is. I actually bought one for special times and I'm a deadset non-smoker (of baccy anyway).

Fascinating! I missed that report. Perhaps many males have also missed it and still believe - as I did - that even though it's more difficult, it's still possibly achievable? Funnily enough last night I was shopping with a female friend and she brought up the subject. She didn't want kids anytime soon, but feels that when she's older and didn't have kids, she would be extremely regretful that she didn't do it while still possible. Edit: How about the countries that contribute to overconsumption try to kerb that problem, and the countries that contribute to overpopulation kerb THAT problem. Wow, quick fix, will never happen, is never that easy. Like feeding the homeless to the hungry

^^^ I'm not sure about differences in states, but in NSW you can apply to put the upfront costs of solar panels onto an interest free credit card with ANZ. You get reimbursed from the rebates within the six months so you're essentially not really going out of pocket. You have to be able to get the credit card though. And I think that offer has passed already.

Oops just saw that I'd said "didn't realise it was called that". Not really what I meant to say but I see my error now anyway It's all good.

^^^ What a beautiful little girl, Hunab! And your son looks like a really good kid I can offer my aspect (only) for the female side of things: I'm 27 now and I don't want kids anytime in the near future. Having a lot of cousins growing up I wasn't really a fan of little kids but always knew that even though I didn't particularly like them then, doesn't mean I wouldn't maybe want kids in the future. I'm not sure it would be very practical physically for me to carry a child to term now (since age 18), but not for fertility problems. So I figure if I really do want a child, I'd probably adopt. I can understand why some people would prefer their own genetic influence, and their partner's, but it just makes me so sad to see so many people spending thousands of dollars on fertility treatments like IVF when there are hundreds of thousands of live babies and children all over the world who have no home, no parents, no life, and no hope. So sad. So very fucking sad. It will be interesting to see how future partners will feel about this, but I cannot and will not compromise myself or unborn child for the pressure of another. I think in my own case I'll probably end up with a partner who maybe already has a child and that would OK with me too, provided they weren't a little gobshite of course hehehe. I get along pretty well with kids, they're just drawn to me for various reasons. Maybe too they're like cats and prefer to be the ones doing the approaching rather than being approached and fussed over... scary! So I guess the point of commenting - sorry to ramble - is to say that not all women are automatically mother material, and certainly not all mothers are mother material. Also a lot of women feel the pressure of giving birth in a way that men can't; because a woman's time-frame for maximum healthy child is smaller than for males. A man can go his whole life a bachelor but if at age 60 decides he wants to be a daddy, he reasonably can with minimal help. After the age of 45 the chances of birth defects, genetic defects, health risks for baby and mum, rise so much. Never mind menopause. The biological clock ticking is very real. *** Watertrade, you cannot have a child just to keep a relationship. I shouldn't say "can't" but it seems to be a relationship killer. Not to mention bringing a child into this world for reasons other than you actually want to be father/mother for that child. My parents were 17 and 18 (and not terribly wealthy) when I was born, mum was preggers with me when they married. And lo they're still together after all these years, much more in love than some friends' parents who probably planned their family the "sensible" way. So in no way am I saying that young parents, or poor, or careless parents would automatically make bad parents. It worked for them, but such a way wouldn't have worked for me. My younger brother has a little boy, and most of the family were dumbfounded that my immature brother would have a kid now. But he's a brilliant dad, hardly any money, but he takes proper care of him while the mother ignores him to play on the computer! Long story there, but anyway my little nephew has given my brother a reason to take any care of himself at a time when I was starting to wonder if he was just going to give up on everything.

ROFL sounds great! Thanks Hunab

I thought I'd read every post in this thread to glean as much as possible but I must've missed or forgotten this one ^^^^ Anyway I had a dream a few weekends ago when HBWR (the dream is a little fuzzy but I think it was 6 seeds prepped normally) were eaten on top of 'cid and some molly. I noticed in the dream that my hands were as still as they ever are! I don't always shake like a leaf but there's usually a definite pronounced jitter in there; they're never totally still. In this dream they were DEAD STILL. It doesn't happen with Molly (makes it worse) and I'm pretty sure not with Cid either. I intend to have a dream about rivea tonight and I'll see if it's species or substance maybe?* *edit: I almost kind of hope that using absinthe for alcohol factor doesn't work and nobody will ever have to drink that ever again. (nearly)

^^^ I had a giggle at that too. First monstrose I've seen in flesh and I didn't realise how anatomically similar they looked... spines and knobs aside Thanks ME and Hunab I'll get on to that oil and scale tomorrow and I'll stick it somewhere in partial shade. Already watered it. Another quick question, is this pot it came in fine for it for a little while? I've run out of bigger pots and need to get more. I've even used a Coles store plastic handbasket to put a couple of cacti in because I only had that crappy Bunnings cactus mix available and figure those baskets should increase the drainage. They're also handy for me to move them around the verandah.

"What about dogs with bees in their mouths, and when they bark they shoot bees at you?"

I just found a $30 monstrose penis plant at a shopping centre nursery. I don't know if that's expensive or cheap but damn it looked cool weird. I'll have to take a photo for you guys to ID.

Can I get number 1, please? I'll PM shortly

Definitely keen