FPT (posted on a dead thread): Derek Parfitt is dead now, but is/was a great philosopher. To paraphrase his ethics - we are all who we are and tend to make the best decisions we can based on the hand… (View Post)

Sorry to miss the end of this discussion @foxy @leon @pagan2 fascinating points from each of you. I agree with your point Leon - collective experience of the divine (whatever that may be - I err on t… (View Post)

I was operating under the assumption that they are all you anyway. (View Post)

In turn yours made me. And in just two hyperlinks (via ergodic literature) I got to ‘choose your own adventure’ books. On that basis alone I am considering becoming a Discordian pope. ETA: and with t… (View Post)

I accept the intoxication is more extreme in the case of ayahuasca, but what is collective worship if not a form of mental intoxication? I get the same dancing to techno music - with or without mdma … (View Post)