 Originally Posted by Noogah
All that those links seem to explain is that a chemical is produced in the brain which causes strange hallucinations.
If you wanted to understand it you'd read it.
 Originally Posted by Noogah
Oh, I dunno. Maybe because you don't risk your health when you meditate? Maybe it's because, you don't risk going to jail when you meditate? Maybe it's because, you don't have to spend gobs of money to meditate? Maybe it's because, you don't risk becoming a chronic meditation addict?
Maybe because, meditation can't possibly ruin your life?
Savvy?
We risk health every day. Maybe you should start an anti driving thread, you know you can die doing this as well.
Risk going to jail? Yeah, thanks to people like you. You're saying that something is wrong because it sends people to jail, which is basically a logical fallacy. Maybe you like to bend over to senseless authority, but that's not how I want to live my life.
You don't have to spend money to do drugs either.
You don't become a drug addict from psychedelics.
People who like to climb mountains get killed, divers drown, eaters get fat and die of a heart attack. People like to live their lives a certain way, and some psychonaut does just that. Now unless you go from person to person, warning them how they could die, I don't see why you're doing this here.
Savvy?
 Originally Posted by Noogah
Flawed analogy. In the case of lsd vs. meditation, the two accomplish the same task. In the case of Christianity vs. Buddhism, they are two totally different beliefs that say different thing.
Another flawed analogy, for the same reasons as before. Two opposites, once producing a positive result, the other producing a negative.
I don't know why you keep seeing analogies everywhere. Maybe you just like to tell people how flawed their analogies are or something. That was not an analogy, I was going off on a tangent, trying to explain the same thing as I did above. You've made up your perfect life model. Now everybody has to do things as you do them; or else they are lunatics. If somebody wants to do LSD, let him. If he want's to meditate, fine...get it?
 Originally Posted by Noogah
I said nothing about it discrediting the hallucinations you experience with LSD. I was only making the point, why choose lsd when there is a much safer, and better alternative?
Again. You have your perfect life model. If somebody wants to do LSD, let them, you'll never see things his way and neither will he see it your way. I mean, why would you choose Christianity, where there is a better alternative? This is what you keep asking, and now you can perhaps see how it sounds.
 Originally Posted by Noogah
Scroll through my posts dude. You'll see that I have much more to say about LSD/drugs in general then that. I've discussed how unhealthy it is, how useless it is, and on top of it being illegal, it is a bad idea.
I never said "Stop taking LSD you guys! It's bad!" in any such form or fashion. I'm not forcing anything on you guys either. I'm only giving my opinion, as you are giving yours.
Well we've told you how healthy drugs can be, how useful they are, and how stupid it is that they are illegal.
 Originally Posted by Noogah
Just because something gives you pleasant memories doesn't justify it. I'm sure that I would have pleasant memories of how fun the roller coaster was before I fell off. Not a great analogy of course, but you get the point.
Meditation is also just pleasant memories. And also it is useless. You could've done something useful in that time, like help the less fortunate or something. How does anything justify meditation?
Justify is a subjective concept. To some extremist 9/11 is justifiable. Now I'm not a Muslim extremist, but I can see why it would be. I'm not a member of some tribe in the Peruvian jungle, but I can understand why their culture revolves around a psychedelic drug. I can also understand your justifications. But since we share these laws, in the light of the potential positive effects of a drug and the negative effects of persecution, I favour legalization.
 Originally Posted by Noogah
I don't. They disobeyed a perfectly reasonable law. You can live without LSD. Heck, you can live quit comfortably without it. It was their choice. They didn't have to go to jail.
As I said above, these might be your values. Live this way, follow this law, do what I say... But I am sorry. As I said, stupid laws shouldn't be followed. It was perfectly reasonable to execute Jews in Nazi Germany too, so it's easy to see why laws shouldn't be taken as absolutes. Unless you support totalitarian systems.
You can live comfortably without it? You might not need to smoke weed when you feel like it. But the research on cancer cures might just be something useful, don't you think? I like to feel like I own my body. Including what I ingest, if it doesn't influence others. If I want to smoke or use a drug, then it's none of "your" business. So no, illegality makes no sense. Unless countries also own the people, instead of it being the other way around.
 Originally Posted by Noogah
If you want to kill your brain with drugs, get out of America. No one's forcing you to do anything. It's not like you don't have a choice in the matter. If your going to play the game, you have to play by the rules. And if you get caught breaking the rules, there will be a penalty, and that's your fault.
The only problem is that the country should belong to the people. Not to some dictator who happens to share your opinion on the matter.
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