About me...

[AndyAmine.]

A couple of years shy of 30, recovering poly drug addict thhat enjoys plants, luicd dreaming, 90's dance music nostalgia and long walks in the rainforest, really want to get into paragliding and property investment.

Seeking kind, genuine female with similar interests..

[chilli]

irrelevant comments deleted

Edited June 25, 2007 by IllegalBrain

[Guest Glenn]

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[Guest Øskorei]

Shroomy... Glenn.. Gentlemen, please take it outside. The rest of us should at least be able to degenerate threads with original gripes. Bitch & moan all the fuck you want, but don't destroy every thread that happens to include the both of you together.

And yes Glenn, that's what SAB is. A gay chatline How perceptive of you.

[chilli]

Oh sorry I didn't see page two... seems my question to 'glenn' was as redundant as him.

[incognito]

im 6 months shy of dirty thirty, and have just moved to a new town for work.

i had a country redneck style farming upbringing in the central west wheat belt, and immersed myself in sports to relieve my unrelenting boredom and to gain acceptance from my father and and other kids(not really from any self interest), receiving a contract to play league with manly warringah when i was 17, moved to sydney, 6 mnths into the contract found ecstacy(had never taken an illegal substance in my life before hand, in fact detested 'filthy druggies') and alternatively immersed myself in the dance scene being a regular at places such as home and dcms, stopped going to training and soon had the contract terminated!! cannot stand to watch football now!!

i have been moving house and towns at least 15 times in the last 10 yrs and am totally over it.

im currently working as a surveyors offsider which is beaut money,horribly long hours and devestatingly boring work-though it fits in with my current plans.

Im hoping to buy a little piece of land very soon so that i can start producing organic fruit and

veg and do the market scene/hopefully pik up a few contracts-heres dreaming, but from what ive experienced daydreaming soon manifests into reality.

Gardening/horticulture is basically my only interest and the only thing that im remotely good at.

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I have a 2.5 yr old daughter whom fills me with love every time that i look at her, whom is also an avid and keen gardener who specialises in strawberrys!!

I love sunsets, gardening and spending time with my liitlen, and receiving insight into my self and my surroundings from the plants of the gods.

I wish i could play an instrument and i wish i could paint-

I really love talking to old people

I really appreciate manners ,i find them beautiful and should be more mindful of myself to use them more often!!!!

Im not the smartest guy in the world , but i truly think people are equal, and someones lacking is made up in some other way.

Nang bottles scare me

I can be both insecure and scared in social situations which is something im working on, and am prone to anxiety attacks on my bad days!!

I love ganja and sally d.

i am intimidated by intellectuals

i think ariocarpus are amongst the worlds most beautiful plants,

i really cant think of anything else to share, im sure thats bored every1 enuff!!!

love jono

Edited June 24, 2007 by jono

[marsha]

ummm im almost 30 have a 4 year old nephew and a 4 month old niece who are the bestest stuff in my life, i like lone walks in the woods on psilocybes in the daytime. i work at what ever cruisy high paying job my education and skill allow atmo mine construction i look forward to getting block of land in yarra valley and having a horse. i like driving in the desert and in summer swimming in the ocean. my gardening is pretty slak but i work away so i grow cactus. this is all the general public and trolls need to know about me my close buddies from here know more and that is sweet ;) i have 2 word for you all POW WOW

[Aya]

Interesting life story of yours Jono, thanks for writing it up. Far from boring.

Great idea for a thread Apoth, and thanks to everyone who's shared.

Edited June 25, 2007 by Ayahuascara

[Evil Genius]

Ok guys, i try to keep it very short. I´ve been there and done that and at the moment i´m growing cacti. The more rare the better. I´m german but i don´t really care about cultures. I´m international, i like speaking other languages and i love Australia as i knew some people there in my youth. I´m an atheist and a very science oriented person. I´ve studied a few different things and personally i´m interested in NLP stuff and psycho-analysis. Earlier in life i´ve been working in the automobile industry in my fathers factory. I love unusual Things and dislike small talk. In the future i want to work with Tissue culture and Orchids. I only eat organic food and dont like meat. I rarely drink alcohol but sometimes i appreciate a very good red wine. I´ve been DJ-ing and prdoucing Music for the last 10 Years but thats over now. I´m a kind person but sometimes i can be very rude. I´m sarcastic, cocky and nice though i´m not a nice guy. I´m from the new school but sometimes i´m old fashioned. I like classic cartoons, Horror Movies, Jazz Music, cheezy magical Tricks, pets, Audio Books, all kinds of Tea, girls with black hair and blue eyes. And the SAB Board which i want to establish as the Most Important Ethnobotanical Board worldwide! I made friends with many people around here and this place absolutely Rocks. The last two years have been the hardest ones in my life but it seems that i´m a weed and what doesnt kills me, makes me harder. I dont plan to be around for long so i live with a passion. I hate to sleep and i dont plan to change this. In a positive sense i tend to be a little bit like Jack Nicholson in AS GOOD AS IT GETS. I treat everyone like i want to be treated and i always try to do the right thing. I like the idea of KARMA though i dont believe in it. I dont believe in the supernatural though THE EXORCIST always scares the shit out of me. I sometimes work as a Journalist for different newspapers and at the moment i´m writing my first book. I also work as a Photographer because i like to caption moments. I have many plans in the future. One of them is to get back my optimism and the same thing i do every night, Try and take over the world! Take Care! bye Eg

Edited June 25, 2007 by Evil Genius

[Torsten]

Nang bottles scare me

You should call them "pressure vessels" to make it sound less gay

Great write up. I never knew your reason for going to sydney... or maybe I just forgot due to my automatic brain word filter that eliminates words like 'footy'

[worowa]

I'm pushing 40, with two piccaninnies 2 and 4yrs old, who I adore. The kids have stretched me mentally and emotionally, there's nothing like it-wonderful yet frustrating and overwhelming.

My dingo cross is 11, and together we've travelled around Oz, living with 3 different Aboriginal mobs who each adopted us.

I love gardening, and I've worked as a gardener on and off for most of my adult life. Mainly edibles and medicinals, I like permaculture.

Spent too long at uni, studying Agricultural Science, then Psychology, then Outdoor Education, then Naturopathy for a year. Thought of combining Psych and Naturopathy to become a Psychopath, but there's enough already.

In between I've been a security guard at an airport, worked with kids with complex behavioural problems, and guided groups through canyons in the Blue mountains.

A big cliff fall, about 15 metres, could have killed me, but instead it just smashed my leg up. My ligaments are all stretched and torn, so I have to watch my step or else I'm in pain for days to weeks.

I've thought long and hard about allsorts of things, I love philosophy. My san pedro inspired meaning of life was "Live Love, Love Life"...easier said than done.

I love time alone, but rarely get it these days-kids and partner who I can't stand being away from for long...

Verging on Atheist, but can't shake the Agnosticism. I pray religion dies out.

I'm cynical, judgemental and hypocritical, but I'm also honest and perceptive and kind.

I love animals, and they seem to love me.

Somehow avoided the authorities during a very stupid and reckless youth, I've since matured into a fairly sensible adult. Just don't tailgate me..

That's enough about me for now.

Oh yeah, I'm glad I found this community-I've been a bit of a solo ethnobotanist since??

[tonic]

I'm feeling receptive right now and will add a little about myself I guess. Really I am an arsehole [well I think so anyway] but try not to be, my only real friends are my plants and my family. I'm 27 and I like cheesy electro house and am not afriad to admit it, though I like lots of different music. I don't really like talking about myself especially since I am on an ego destroying journey and am casting away all the bullshit that I used to be hung up with. Though I am still suffering from a personality disorder and don't really mind if I ever get 'cured' as it is who I am and am learning to like myself. Don't really know what I am going on about here or what I'm getting at. I am inept socially and have only had a few girlfriends which, shall we say, were'nt the best relationships. Probably die lonely but not that worried as i will still have my plants. Am more comfortable with myself than others anyway.

I like journeys, mental not physical.

I love cats but used to hate them.

Have been a nurseryman and did bush regen for a total of five years, but will NEVER do it again.

Unemployed and happy to stay that way for a while.

Intelligent but do really stupid things.

Have never been able to finish a course as I am too easily distracted and jump from one obsession to next on a whim.

Basically I am a mess, but I love it.

There is probably more but yeah.......

EDIT: Oh yeah I hate fungus gnats, get away from my plants you little bastards.

Edited June 25, 2007 by Phosphene_Dream

[incognito]

You should call them "pressure vessels" to make it sound less gay

what the hell does a 'nang bottle' refer to in the gay community?

or u mean gay is in gay gay?

[tonic]

Ha ha that's some funny shit right there!!!

[mark80]

Hey I’m mark

I’m 18 and I love judo and working out although I’m fat and relatively unattractive. I lack any form of humour and charmingness.

I am mostly into cacti now and enjoying my ever growing collection. My favourite cacti are the astrohpytum spp.

I do enjoy fishing and hunting.

I'm in uni now and enjoy it mostly, my favourite subjects are mollecular biology, biochmeistry and neuroscience.

i worked for a little while in some nusrey that was utter garbage and got payed under the table. So i've never really had a porper job but luckily my parents support me.

I can systemise fairly well but i am unintentainally very hard to live with, i make messes and such.

Admittly i love girls and there porbably the biggest aspect of my life thus far.

I drink about a half litre + of wine a day which is way to much but You know one glass leads to another and so on and so forth.

I'm an aderaline junkie and will do anything for a thrill. But i do enjoy my quite time studing (when i do do it) and gardening.

--editted the drunk rumablings out --

Edited June 30, 2007 by mark80

[chilli]

Hi Mark,

You said "I lack any form of humour and charmingness." but this comment is itself funny in a self deprecating kind of way, so maybe there's hope for you yet.

After all, everybody has some kind of sense of humor, even komodo.

Was it you who was getting drunk and talking about girls a couple of months back? I used to drink like that when I was around your age, but now my liver is all fucked up... maybe you want to try and take it easy or drink some cactus tea, although that will probably mess your liver up too.

Okay, have a glass of tepid water.

Also, try not to think about the girls too much... it's a waste of good youth, plus its pathetic... in the least insulting sense of that word.

Don't worry I am giving your sense of humor and probably your patience a workout.

[Kenny Blister]

Good thread, keeping it alive for now…

I’ll be 25 soon, not much into my own birthday, but will probably throw a house party to thank everyone I know for the laughter that’s been shared.

I work in plant nutrition and breeding, mostly doing drought related research with grain crops. Peachy job.

Not going to delve into the past here, but feeling good these days. Staying healthy, eating well, sleeping well, exercising the body and mind. I love gardening. Finally left the unit I was living in and into a house with a decent yard. Got some vegetables growing nicely and will expand the selection during after winter. Building up a collection of ethnobotanicals, mostly Brugmansia, Datura and Echinopsis species at the moment. Got a few other essentials. Wish I had time to do more.

As for everything else, I like to read lots of stuff regarding current events and politics in an attempt to keep track of all that is going on around the world, and I like a bit of Chomsky and Huxley. Would like to read more fiction. And maybe I’ll write some one day. I play bad thrash guitar and write subversive lyrics to match. I cut up clothes and sew them onto other clothes and I like stencil art and would like to put some stuff onto t-shirts. I’m vice captain of a footy team hellbent on partying, but it’s mostly a good group of people with genuine personalities. I love all the music on Triple J (but have always had a thing for good punk rock), live gigs and dancing the night away. And I live with my girlfriend who may have psychic abilities that need nurturing.

Don’t ‘journey’ much at all these days, but don’t feel the need to, although it’s good to clear the spiritual junk now and then. An extended adventure is calling me so I’m saving up to hike around Africa for as long as I can and maybe see what I can discover about anything really.

I love this place. There is a wealth of information, so much so that I don’t need to ask too many questions, I just go looking. Mostly I just like that there are so many beautiful people here.

Peace

KB

[incognito]

Also, try not to think about the girls too much... it's a waste of good youth, plus its pathetic... in the least insulting sense of that word.

surely u jest?!!

oh to be an 18 yr old chasing girls......

[genki]

im exactly one week away from turning 23, im not really big into birthdays but will be going to see concord dawn with a couple of friends.

for the past ~5 years ive been employed in hospitality wokring my way from nightclub bussy to cocktail bartender. im loving the work at the moment and the lifestyle suits me but i plan to be out of the industry before i turn 30. im looking into returning to study next year, most likely year 12 chemistry or equivelant so i can later apply for the Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics at Monash University.

i am passionate about being outdoors. for my birthday im buying myself a new hybrid bike which i will fully kit out for touring so i can make the most of having a 3 day weekend every fortnight. im also keen on hiking, particularly around the alpine areas of victoria. ive recently started indoor rock climbing (love the free bouldering walls at burnley!) and am thinking about joining the VCC or a uni club to go on trips to arapiles/grampians. if i had the money i would head to queenstown, NZ and spend a couple of weeks learning to skydive but unfortunately there are more important places for my money to go.

when the weathers nice i love to get outside with my poi, staff or juggling gear. occasionally i make a vague attempt to progress with the meteor but it usually ends with bruises.

for down time i love to draw, read, tend to my cacti & plants and occasionally knit. i will and do read pretty much anything but i have a strong interest in mountaineering non-fiction, nature & ecology and gay/lesbian/transgender studies.

forgot to add music tastes. i love nothing better than getting away and having a stomp barefoot to any type of psy but i work weekends and so it doesnt happen as much as i would like. i like dub, DnB, psy, electro, classical strings/piano but will listen to pretty much anything if its good.

Edited July 4, 2007 by genki

[The Dude]

Will try to keep this short, rambling is a hobby of mine, you think i write long rants to entertain the likes of you? I don't even like anyone here..

I'm extremely sociable and like everybody I'm also hillariously depressed, it can get kinda funny.

Lets start this again...

21/m/adelaide. Pollack from origin, always a bit different and less sociable than the other kids, always had some kind of drawing ability since i was a little kid and i always used to do that in my down time, nowadays it seems I expect people expect too much. Maybe i expect too much and it's easier to be lazy and get stoned.

Wanted in to the drug scene since i saw the Doors movie where they take peyote in the desert but i wasn't too sure what was going on, it still looked like this music, this lifestyle, this is it, i want to be that guy there he got a blowjob in the elevator from some random girl. Who doesnt want to be a rock god? but apart from the sex and rock n roll, theres also the drugs and i think that became my number one lover.

Mary Jane keeps me sane when i get into that whole regressing through my life looking at all my mistakes and regrets -thing, hindsight is a fucker when your a lonely douchebag and you realise all these chances you missed. SO i kick myself regularly until I have some kind of psy-inspired realisation about living in the now and all my guilt and regrets become insignificant. In fact I become happy for having experienced them and learned through them. They become a gift, which is a strange mindset when your used to hating your past.

In this way Psy's have saved my life by rebooting my system and clearing my ram of all the useless shit cluttering it. Ecstacy is brilliant mostly as a confidence booster but in conjunction with the right drugs it can be "ECSTACY" and these ecstatic experiences that is the shared connection to 'the Other' within a group environment has propelled my thinking to some 'out-there' notions that i figured to be common realisations amongst psychonaughts but some here still seem to be of a fairly fixed-rational-reality mentality.

Psy's have created an environment where it seems all these realisations clicking in my head right now have always been a part of me and my whole life has lead to it. Just like every other point in it is leading into or out of the other. This seems obvious but what was profound was just the FEELING of unbroken continuity in everything, not only of my lifes events but every interpretation and mental thought associated with it. This continuity also extends beyond "me" into "ME". SO it is my thoughts that consciousness is a metaphysical entity that has a 'body' if you will where seperate "organs" have their own functions. These organs would be a metaphysical conceptual object which informs the lower levels of reality... I like the idea of MIND creating reality through our shared symbols over the idea of Nature as a finite program with formulas systematically processing reality through Forward Causality. The thing with symbols is they are interpreted, the thing with rules is they're followed. Why live literally when we can interpret this how we want?

All this talk gets me heaps of chicks!!!

I love girls but have only been lucky a few times and "Lucky" really is the word. I guess Im all for the physical one off thing and thats how my relationships have been, anybody else I try to tune cuz I think of them as more than tits on legs I will inevitably fuck up all my chances with. Anyhow i need to get out more and take some disco biscuits.

This is a very late coming of age for me, the whole idea of having fun and not giving a fuck about the negatives just letting them slide. I am eternally foolish. By that I suppose I mean I'm not too proud to make mistakes.. I used to be i think which is why I've been so late with learning some simple lessons of life.

Finally outta home which has been a headfuck but learning to live independently is something i need....

One final thought on self. The Media especially alternative media like triple J and such often riddled with multi-meaning'd song lyrics creates a platform for God to express itself. The more communication exchange and creativity is expressed ANYWHERE the higher chance of BECOMING AWARE of the synchronistic clockwork of mind/matter. I read an essay long ago about Acid Rock acting as a mystical agent of Communion to God if you will. That is by creating multifaceted symbolic imagery that resonates personally with people in their symbo-literate part of their brain they are creating a communication, opening a portal to another dimension.. . This resonance is holy communion. Metal Music has plenty of stuff about Kings Wizards and Vikings, but all this still makes sense in a modern setting when the wizardry and magick has always been (and still is) more than fairytales.

I guess the 60's loved that symbolic song-writing, and maybe its just that I've only recently tuned back into this thought domain, but I've been getting many a 'resonance' with the music i hear on triple j lately. Having said that maybe any music becomes this meaningful when under the influence. I think though that whatever you choose to listen to WILL synch because you chose to listen to it for some "Divinely Inspired" reason.

It just seems that all Content creation and content Interpretation is some form of communication from SELF to self. The more literal and explicit and tangable this content is made the easier the interpretation but really there is nothing to learn from saying Blue is Blue. Analogy Metaphor and symbology is transmutation it is creating something out of something else. It is bridging the gap of Non-Being to Being, just like that first moment of existance. This kind of communication that requires one to transcend the gap, to get the message from what is implied but not said, is communicating through gods tongue. It is as though the Divine Spark of Creation is about what YOU see in between the lines. It is what you create out of what is and isn't there.

Now this is already an overly long rant about philosophy when im meant to be talking about me, im just trying to convince you that you ARE me. and I you. It's just that when I can sense an overall VIBE to a globally communicating population through political trends and media content and personal contact with people, it Seems we all sway to a greater Cosmic Magnet.

Edited July 4, 2007 by El Duderino

[-YT-]

Duder!

[planthelper]

i love working with my hands and have a love affair with plants.

at times i think a lot about all those things which happend in my life and somehow with the help of the properties of some plants and psychology, i am very greatfull for my life experience. i somehow managed to turn my darkest moments, into strengh and aceptance. i love going for walks, and all the plants i see seem to be just there so to give me the feeling how beautyfull this planet is. i believe the most important thing for a human is to have a sence of idendety, for if you know who you are and believe in youreselfe than nothing can destroy you. i had lost my mind, but still believed in my ego and identety and this i think saved me. other people i know, seem to not know who they are, and this lack means according to my own theory, that even mild mental upsets throw them around all over the place, so what ever you do, don't smoke and believe in youreselfe and who you are!!

i am a migrant and don't have much of a family anymore, but my life has been very good lately and in some sence i owe this to sab!

if there is one thing i'm ashamed of, than it's the fact that i share this planet we a crowd of people, who all share strange religious believes. "divinety" is a marketable comodety on this planet, and it get's mostly abused. most churches and religions are holding on to believes which make me feel we are still in the dark ages.

i sometimes have felt the divine, and believe we all have a part of this what some call god within us, (as do all things, even stones and single cell organisms) so just go and have fun on this planet!!

[Μορφέας]

if there is one thing i'm ashamed of, than it's the fact that i share this planet we a crowd of people, who all share strange religious believes.

Please! Religion is not something to be ashamed of! Sighhhh. a love afair with a plant on the other hand...

That hurt sigh.

Im not ashamed to be christian and to live by the morals it entails, especially in a SELFISH society so full of sexual immorality where the entire african continent is dying bcos ppl cant keep their cocks in the pants, and SELFISH drug use is so rife and destroying the communitys we live in, where SELFISH instant gratification, SELFISH moneytary & materialism is so dominant and SELFISH pleasure are the all encompasing drive of humanity and social standards set. while no one stops to help the hungry child, the homeless, the eldery, the people that are in need and lend a hand of generousity and support.

This is a bit about me! Im sick of selfish materialism and indulgent spiritualty and the lack of outworked Humanity!

Random acts of kindness, and considered acts of kindness I love

A smile, no anger, no conflict I try to live by, hell I dont know how to approach my best mate of 10 years about why the fuck his taking my 15yrold sister to a drive in movie behind my back when his 20 and trying to hide it. Id rather walk away and ignore someone then talk to them about it.

I love nature and its beauty, and the endless possibilitys for medicine and healing and everything it has!

Im here to learn about things like mushrooms relieving headaches, helping restore eye sight (jono) the anti angiogenesis effects of that compound torsten loves found in the tree, the therapudic benefits of ketamine in relieving peoples depression...

I cant lie on purpose, I wont do it theres no reason for a person to lie if they can explain themselves, i dont think anyone has evil intentions but all people are good, but I do unconsciously in the quick moments like on a phone call.

Id rather love and get burnt in a relationship a thousand times and feel alive then hold myself back and play it safe and let time go.

Edited July 5, 2007 by Tepa

[Evil Genius]

There are some very cool Posts in this Thread! Maybe we can keep it alive as a long lasting introduction thread. Btw, Good Post Planthelper! bye Eg

Edited July 5, 2007 by Evil Genius

[chilli]

Also, try not to think about the girls too much... it's a waste of good youth, plus its pathetic... in the least insulting sense of that word.

surely u jest?!!

oh to be an 18 yr old chasing girls......

I didn't say he shouldn't chase them, just not to think about them too much ;)