Retaining your childhood innocence?

i just start threads sometimes when i'm bored, especially when i see that the forums is scattered with 'help! trying lsd', 'my first trip', 'need advice about lsd' type threads.

i figure i might as well throw something about philosophy out there, and well whatever i'm thinking about at the time is what i write about. we might as well have some productive conversations here.

 

eh, don't worry about it if people say you are "weaving verbal webs" or "intellectually master baiting"

I enjoy stimulating threads. We can all bask in our isolated so-called bliss all day long, but connection with other human beings is where our true nature shines through, and the best discourse for that, is of course, discussion.

 

Well you have to understand Desos, that when you post on the forums, vultures like us will assume that you are seriously trouble in life by such questions and that you spend every waking moment fighting yourself over our dualistic nature.
This is the internet brah, it's serious business.

 

Can you explain to me what is productive about this?

I'm not saying don't start discussion threads, I'm saying that your premises in this discussion are flawed and are preventing you from the insight you seek.

Also what is wrong with "Hey i wanna try lsd" threads? That's how people start. I don't see why threads like this are better than threads like those; both are ok.

 

Advice from Bill Hicks:

"I think we've had enough with our inner child, let's move to our outer adult; ready?"

 

Nice I hadn't heard that line, I really like it.

 

how does defining what i am talking about on a spectrum of possible ways to absorb an experience prevent me from gaining the insights i am seeking?

 

lol

 

In my opinion, the way you are choosing to talk about your experience has built into itself the very mechanisms which not only cause difficulty learning but in some cases make it impossible. The tool you are using to build your house is so big and clumsy and ill-designed that it's in the way of your house getting built.

 

i've been thinking about this subject a lot lately

i think the thing that keeps that aspect of childhood and innocent thinking alive for me is art. I've recently realized how freely and artistically my mind worked when i was really young. I've found that for the past while my artistic senses have been dummed down because i've just been seeing things way too technically. I've been trying to relate to the outside world way too much, but recently i've been learning how to be childish and artistic again.

i think it's a necessary thing for a true artist to have, that's how i keep those childhood feelings within reach while still gaining experience from ongoing life

 

this thing reminds me of john locke's tabula rasa idea-everyone is bornw ith a blank mind and society molds people to whatthey will become. and lsd wipes the slate clean-you questoin everything you've ever considered to be true. i love acid

 

The best way I have found to rejuvenate my childhood spirit while still living in this reality.....is to have kids.

You get new eyes that are forever seeking! Acid did that too....but for a few hours.....not for each moment

 

So true, acid is like rebirth. But don't take that too bluntly...