The Meaning of Life

[grecian]

How many times have you stumbled on some sort of epiphany while high only to forget again by the time your sober?
Any one have any life-changing revelations that they can actually remember?

I dont but for my own enjoyment next time i find the holy grail i'll try to write it down and tell u all about it.

apologies for my randomality but its been a long week and an even longer nite. shit even that doesnt make sense

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"Killing for peace is like fucking for chastity." GOOD one!

[Nature Boy]

I always come up with incredible thoughts when on psychedelics but I've learned to laugh them off and ignore them because they always seem ridiculous the next day. If anything, I come up with my best thoughts when I'm a little stoned. Ideas that are practical and not too far-fetched like LSD ideas.

[ped]

Ive come to loads. But in the end I figure the answer is so complex, that
A: the human mind cannot understand it, especially baseline
B: there aren't words that exist to describe it

[Pinkavvy]

swim became enlightened once, but realized later it was gas. :P

[antigenesis]

SWIM has had unparalleled realizations of the great inner workings of our universe, such as why we exist, how exactly we can stop from ruining the earth, the true nature of 'God', and the complete understanding of human nature, while high. Be damned if he remembers any of it though.

[raven3davis]

SWIM also figured out the wonders of the universe once. He figured out how we evolve from the most simple organisms to the most complex, and then he figured out exactly why we did this. He started to write it down but then lost his train of thought. He was stoned.

[U-NiQUE]

SWIM has had many thoughts about the meaning of life while high, but he always sticked with the one that he supports sober: U dont live very long, so make the best out of it. Just try to live a happy good life.

[pharmapsyche]

I wouldn't say that I have revelations about the meaning of life when I'm high, but at the time it sure seems like I do. For example, I had a sudden insight into how the human race operates exactly like a large ant hill. Everyone is just scurrying around doing their thing, just like ants in a colony. At the time, I couldn't believe that I hadn't realized it before. But when I started to float back to baseline, I thought "wait, that's not nearly as insightful as I thought it was!" Point being, when you're high things can seem so crystal clear and then when you aren't high anymore you can laugh about it.

[Solidly-here]

I have Large thoughts when Trippin' . . . and sometimes when NOT.

Besides being High, being in-Love can bring BIG answers to life. Suddenly all of the (usual) blocks to a happy life, fall down. My mind opens up to the endless possiblilities.

There are a Million answers to the mystery of the Universe. And when I think of one, that IS the answer. Another day, I think of one -- so, that day, I have the answer to the mystery too.

Many people think that there is only ONE correct answer. This is not true. In a single day, life can show itself to be 1000 different things. Which of these things is Correct? (Or, are any of them Correct?) Depending on my perspective, each of the 1000 things can be Correct, for that time.

How did animals develop from nothing-ness? If I have a drug-induced vision of how it happened, that view can be Correct. After all, no one has the process on film (just 1000 different theories. Each scientist bitterly defends HIS, as if it were the Ultimate Truth).

When I have an insight about the Meaning of Life, I sit there and bask in the Miracle which I have witnessed. Later, I am having some insight about something else, so the Meaning of Life is no longer on my mind. Which means that I do not (then) care about the Meaning of Life. Insights come, and insights go, but insights are an important part of being human. The mind thinks, therefore it is open to new insights (new possibilities).

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Good post

[reptile]

This is why I write everything down as soon as I CAN type.

I forget hallucinations easily.

But yes. Had two epiphanys in the form of a polar bear spirit guide. 8]

[pharmapsyche]

Ofcourse, SWIM has had funny thoughts about life and other issues after smoking marijuana, but life-changing revelations, i'm unsure about that. Everything seems to be clear and make much more sense once marijuana is in the system and i defiantly agree that SWIM thinks more about life, and how life works but after returning to "base-line", SWIM realizes it was silly thoughts only to be not much more than common sense. Is it wrong that SWIM, feels the most sane while being high, hee!

[pharmapsyche]

Originally Posted by pharmapsyche

Is it wrong that SWIM, feels the most sane while being high, hee!

Pharmapsyche, I know EXACTLY what you mean!

[IHrtHalucingens]

i find that when stoned i have random thoughts that sometimes make sense and other times dont, none of them are incredibly realted to the meaning of life, however while on mushrooms, certain aspects of our lives and manurisms, that are hidden deep in our minds and we usually dont pay attention to, surface and it allows us to see our lives and actions for what they are instead of what we want them to be, this allows us to make changes for the better and understand ourselves and our actions in a new light.

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I SO get what you're saying man!

[carousel]

swim once thought god was talking to swim - giving swim answers to many problems all at once while swim was telling his friend his ephiphanies one after another. swim literally thought god was lifting swim off the ground.

all of this after smokin' a few joints. must've been laced with something.

[pharmapsyche]

maybe, just maybe, god was talking to you!

[fatmanstan]

SWIM finally started jotting down cryptic notes while high, most of the time they are understandable. Sometimes they have staying power after back down, sometimes they don't, but always *very* interesting to have insights on how the mind works in that state.

SWIM would say that a good part of who he is today is the result of educated entheogen use and the insights acquired. As long as one knows what he is looking for before he goes searching, he will usually find it.

[Richard_smoker]

Any of you ever read "The Tao of Physics" by Fritjof Capra??

This made me realize much about those times when everything makes sense, and then you forget it. The prologue of the book tells a story about when the writer--a theoretical, quantum physicist who constantly works on mapping out the mathematical deduction of EVERYTHING in existence--stumbles upon his first mystical experience. When suddenly everything made sense. he could look up at the sky and see numbers, calculations. look down at the sand and the rocks and see numbers taking form all around him. it's pretty cool. and possibly the concept that was used on "a Beautiful Mind" to demonstrate what Dr. Insanity-Math-Magician would see when code-cracking.

I think this just shows you how 2 totally different world views collide:
1. the scientific world of Einsteinian physics and difficult to imagine sub-microscopic world of theoretical spinning particles with orbits where mass=energy, and the subatomic world seems curiously similar to the cosmic view of the universe.

2. from the literary, artistic, emotional and experientially-based world view, devoid of scientific thought, but deep with wisdom, advice, and understanding of various observations which form opinions about patterns in history, sociology, religion, politics, and just people and the world in general.

Both views are very real human interpretations of what is around us always, and at all times. Both views just happen to collide in an amazing and profound way for Capra and thus began his quest to educate others about his epiphany.

[GardenGrove]

SWIM often thinks they have a great idea, but then realises how farfetched and ridiculous SWIM's thoughts were once coming down from the high.

[Woodman]

How would this affect the meaning of life?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...69676973948865

[pharmapsyche]

lolol good one woodman!

[Alfa]

Reality is a variable

[pumped3.16]

swim always says to himself wtf was i thinking of last night,it really isnt reality.

[xx3]

Text below not meant to smart-ass / preach / offend, bla bla, ok..

I count myself to be quite an introvert type, and for a good part of my life
I was literally obsessed with such questions:

What is the meaning of life?
What is soul?
Etc, etc.

Ponder, ponder....
more ponder.

Well, I had theese queries resolved and for answers I seek no more.
I had an epiphany? Dont remember exactly.. this is:

What is the meaning of life? (suspance, hold breath...)
There is no meaning. (shock & awe) NO meaning. Nada. Life has no meaning.
In fact, life is meaning-less.

Is up to you (me) to give it meaning.
No-one else will instead.
Will mommy do it? Nope.
Daddy, please? Niet!
God, our Lord, mercyfull and just, GIV'EM MEANING! Ehm.... no.

Damn, I'll just HAVE TO BE FREE then!
And it'is the hardest thing that I know of.

[RealGanjaMan]

SWIM loves to think about the meaning of life when on various substances. SWIM actually comes up with a lot of logical ideas/thoughts most of the time. The downside is they act alot like dreams, in that SWIM remembers them for maybe a day or two and then as soon as it leaves his mind it never comes back. SWIM will try to write them down next time he experiances them.

-RGM

[D.U.M.B]

The meaning of life came to SWIM while using philoshoper stones. But swim later forgot it as he got distracted by the common question "why's that tree talking to me"

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HAHA!!! I gpt a chuckle out of that one!