Toughest Choice
Toughest Choice
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There’s an old borscht belt joke about insurance - “What if something terrible happens, and you don’t die?”
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My wife likes to joke when I'm in an anxiety spiral by saying "okay well on the off chance that society doesn't crumble maybe you should plan for the future". For some reason that always makes me laugh. If it does it does, but it's probably best to have a plan still.
And reasonable budgeting can let you enjoy the now while also planning for the future
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I'm 40.
In my late 20s where YOLO got popular, I knew people who followed that lifestyle.
Many of them are still in a hole, still working min wage jobs and chasing after whatever fad.
It's very sad.
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The whole YOLO thing never made any sense to me. If you believe in reincarnation or an afterlife, then you have every excuse to risk your life doing whatever you want. There’s usually some kinds of moralistic restrictions, but except in the most extreme religious fundamentalist societies, I suspect wingsuiting on weekends is fair game. If you’re going to live forever no matter what you do, why not?
On the other hand, if you only live once - if you’re one and done - that seems like a demotivation to risk your life before you’re actually done with it.
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I never knew soup told jokes!
I guess it's a fluid interpretation.
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impulse bought a 3D printer over the weekend then returned it today unopened
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Why? 3d printing is so fulfilling.
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fulfilling
Also infilling.
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Oh no! Please get one soon. Making stuff is important.
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I can respect that. But also- set aside money on a regular basis (cash in an envelope for the physical reality or in a budgeting app) until you have enough to get one. And then splurge on that or something else you want more by then!
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A tab of LSD is just about 5 bucks and one of my best experiences and fondest memories.
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That's more like a try once or twice with people you trust than let's do that shit every weekend sort of drug. Or am I wrong?
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It depends on you. Some people get therapeutic benefit from regular psychedelic experiences, and never stop. Other people gain life-changing insights from one or several trips. Still others use/abuse it purely for fun, with a range of consequences resulting. A minority of people have adverse reactions where latent mental illnesses like schizophrenia can be triggered.
I'm in the second camp. A couple quotes that I relate to: "Once you get the message, hang up the phone" -- Alan Watts. "Never point [psychedelics] at anything you don't want perforated with new light"-- Terence McKenna.
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You're wrong
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Really good mushrooms can be equally cheap. They're so much stronger than back in the day, 1g could be equal to 100mcg of LSD. Not to mention cultivating them is relatively easy as far as these sorts of things go.
I do ketamine infusion therapy as well. It's a massive injection that is consistent and constant for about 90 minutes. It is one of the WILDEST experiences people can have, up there with DMT or DPT but instead of all of reality melting digitally disintegrating dripping all around you it's much more like the classic description of a near death experience/OBE.
But it is very important to have a the prerequisite knowledge and the right intentions for first time psychedelic users. There's a reason some of the greatest villains of history used these drugs to try to control human behavior and we don't know the extent to which they were successful nor what they still do. I'm very suspicious of the predominant culture around psychedelic drugs, it's just another example of colonial cultural appropriation and assimilation. The psychedelic experience is something that can be incredibly profound and powerful, but it can also fuck you up pretty good. These chemicals, the plants they come from, and the cultures that have been using them for hundreds to thousands of years demand a lot of respect. If you don't respect them, you will quickly learn to.
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but instead of all of reality melting digitally disintegrating dripping all around you it's much more like the classic description of a near death experience/OBE.
That description doesn't match my DMT experiences at all; at threshold doses I'm always somewhere else completely, the world doesn't disintegrate around me, I go somewhere else entirely with no relation to my previous environment and I go there in seconds at most, it's almost instantaneous. And what's on the other side is indeed sometimes close to the classic description of NDEs.
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Meh, LSD is for kids.
Try 3-HO-PCP & 5-MEO-DMT
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I've been interested in psychedelics, but I'm scared I'll open a Pandora's box and then it'll be everyone's problem. What's it like?
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Both alternating
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When you are low on funds versus when you just get paid.
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My general approach to this tends to be to identify what makes me happy in life, splurge on those, save on everything else. For example, I love computers, so I'd splurge on parts, but religiously meal prep to save on food.
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They should hold hands and talk about it.
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Team red
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secret third option
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Steam Sale
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Money=/=Life
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lmao
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Here's my problem. The boat is an "only live once" purchase though.
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My life writ large.
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Save 15-25% of your income for retirement and future expenses, then spend the rest on whatever you want.
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Spend 60% of your income on rent, then spend the rest on various other necessities and have nothing left over to save.
Welcome to modern Western society.
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Excuse me sir, where is the crippling debt from not being able to afford any slight inconvenience?
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Unfortunately. I can't hit it either, trying my best.
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pay people enough to be able to first
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Yes.
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How do people not think of that, putting a quarter of your income away monthly, so obvious, I wonder why they don't do it
Also a "retirement" implies a functioning biosphere in which to retire, fat chance.
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if i saved that high of a percentage i would not be able to heat house and eat
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Yep, I can't make it myself either. I just shoot for it when I can.
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gripping experiences such as: not being homeless, not starving
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