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0 pointsmistermann10y ago0 comments

> Eh this sounds like exactly what was wrong with the early LSD promoters. Psychedelics are the mythical "love bomb"? I do not think the evidence supports that.

We really don't have that much evidence - at the one Uni they'd done what, 500 trials with mushrooms over 10 years?

It's obviously not guaranteed to bring world peace, but I honestly think it could make a huuuuuge portion of the public wake up and start asking questions of their leaders.

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knowaveragejoe10y ago· 1 in thread

I think asking questions of their leaders is a small byproduct of asking questions about our society in general. Why do we do what we do? When you realize we're all just organisms in a massive terrarium that we all depend upon, some things we do don't make any sense. The leaders are just a manifestation of these behaviorisms that probably started with either ignorance or selfishness.

mistermannOP10y ago

> When you realize we're all just organisms in a massive terrarium that we all depend upon, some things we do don't make any sense.

True, but the problem is, we'll often never agree which things, even with the help of drugs!

Bjartr10y ago· 1 in thread

>> I do not think the evidence supports that.

> We really don't have that much evidence

So you agree with him then.

MichaelGG10y ago

I'm saying what little evidence we have (mainly that there are many LSD users and they span quite a bit of viewpoints) does not support the idea that they'll all become "love bombed" messengers for peace or whatever. My implication being that the more evidence we get, the more we'll find out that LSD doesn't just deliver some external value like world peace but enhances ideas already in one's mind.

He's saying there's not enough evidence to tell. But with the implication that once we do have evidence, it'll show that LSD really does "love bomb" people.

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