Thread: Drug use?

Originally Posted by Lusense

Those preferences are a combination of environment and genetics. Differences in taste are usually just because of differing experiences. Like if you grow up in the Orient you're more likely to like seafood and this and that. Or if you eat peppers alot you're more likely to like them. That's why if you eat a food you don't like you will eventually adapt a taste for it if you force yourself for long enough and why people in different areas of the world or different demographics have similar (not exactly since conditions vary from home to home) eating, music patterns, and stuff. That's different than having a biological predisposition. It needs to be implemented in the genes for something like that to exist even if it was possible, that's not arguable, Lamarckian ideas have long been refuted.

It's easy to make broad claims about science and not point to any specific studies which is what you're doing to try to refute alot of the points I make but in reality the majority of those studies are very reliable since they go through numerous peer reviews and are specifically intended to be disprovable. Astrology is not backgrounded in any sort of rational as are many other similar fields. Honestly, I've seen alot of the tests in those fields and regardless of the excuses people make they are FAR from not fair. People try to come up with excuses for them when making them any more "reasonable" would just be a completely flawed design. It just seems that in all these pseudoscientific topics atleast 99.9% of the people are clearly lying (lets refer this comment to any of these fields and not specifically astrology) so I wouldn't be surprised about the other "0.1%".

Also, that person that asked about psychedelics. I had a few dreams where I was tripping out on salvia in my dreams after having done it earlier haha. I know some of them can directly affect sleep and I've had some experience with that but I guess that depends on the psychedlic.

It's easy to write off what I say because I don't have any studies to show you but, we must always remember that everything hasn't always been discovered and understood.

I don't believe 99.9% of people who have psychic visions for instance is lying, I know for a fact that I'm not lying for instance. I know it's not a delusion, and I'm positive that it is a possible thing to be achieved. How or why on the other hand I am not sure.

Astrology has no rational that you understand is what you meant, just because you don't understand how it works or what it really is doesn't mean its nonsense. Studies done on astrology which I can't think of anything I'm sure were half-assed and attempted by those with no real knowledge or understanding of that subject.

Peer review has many of its own issues, such as the common occurrence of people seeing things how they want to. Peer review is better for the widely accepted, and widely studied.

How does anyone measure the subtle energies created by the planets and stars and how they affect us? And how do you set up a working experiment, it escapes me.