And the TST is also a religion.

Anyway, your 'they're all bullshit' comment makes it clear you didn't join this thread to have a good faith discussion, but rather to shit on views different from your own.

So, I'll leave you to it. Enjoy.

And a sect of the TST was removed because they started pushing for violence. Every religion is vulnerable to corruption by people's pride and other hindrances. Buddhism is no exception. Nor is any imaginary one folks come up with in this thread.

Anyway, power corrupts. We've always known that. The 'devil' in Buddhism is the lust or will to power. Lies and manipulation are simply a tool it uses. And, like Buddha Nature, we all have it.

That's a gross over generalization. I get it, I was a militant atheist at one point in my life too and still have a lot of similar biases in my religious views.

There are sincere Christians and ones that pay lip service. Same with Buddhism. There are many Christian sects, some dogmatic, some not. Same with Buddhism.

Half the TST principles are Buddhist. Either being path factors (Right View, Right Action) or expressions of the four immeasurables (compassion, justice).

And I just watched a documentary on TST. They've had issues with members too. Militant sects forming that forgot about compassion as a principle. Etc.

Fucked up is a matter of perspective. If you're an oligarch, it's all going according to plan.

The Satanic Temple and Buddhism both fill that niche for me. So, I would make it like them.

You can skip the cannabis.

But yeah, having someone take you is the best way.

I was thinking about this more just now. I know you use weed for medical reasons. Do you ever get hypnagogic images off it when you close your eyes?

I believe this is the cerebral cortex teaching itself how to see things. I get it a lot when I fall into a porn hole or spend a lot of time staring at mushrooms. I think it's dopamine reinforcement and neuroplasticity, essentially.

Anyway, you can teach yourself to spot them, is what I'm saying. Smoke a bowl, watch some videos online of people hunting them. Preferably a lot of in nature shots so your brain is learning to see them in the right context. When you start to lose interest, pause a good shot and allow yourself to relax and fall into your breathing. If you do this enough, I bet you'll start to see morels when you close your eyes before bed.

And when you get out to look for them, they'll be much easier to spot if you allow yourself to again relax and fall into your breathing and sort of trust your muscle memory.

The weed is optional for anyone else reading. But it does have action on dopamine and can give some people mild closed eye visuals, which helps to verify the experiment.

Yeah, my bad. I went back and reread the comment you were replying too and deleted all my knee-jerk reactions based on taking your comment out of context.

It's not work it's more like a hobby. Work is what people do to survive. See working class vs owner class.

Wealth hoarders can either obsess or not obsess about hoarding more wealth, like any person with a hobby.

So, how much time they spend on their hobby and what hours they spend on their hobby really depends on their temperament.

I would stop doing drugs because I don't believe in dosing people without their consent.

It was the combination of the two.

There's no correlation between drinking alcohol and weed consumption. Generally the inverse is true.

Adding marijuana in parenthesis like that coupled with disinformation made me think cop tbh.

Cool people can have mental problems.

Cool people can have mental problems rather or not they like drugs.

One of the uncoolest things I think people do is ask black and white questions like this while acting like alcohol isn't a drug.

Weed does not increase alcohol consumption. Generally we're finding the inverse is true in large samples like CO.

Drafts usually are of young men for the logistic reasons you mentioned.

So, if all men ages 18-24 are being drafted, the President's kids should be first on the list.

In other words, if you're going to send my son to war and you are president you need to send your's first. Otherwise I'm telling my kid to dodge because his life isn't worth less than some rich assholes.

When everyone is being drafted. Including the children of the oligarchs and political class.

Otherwise it's never right. It's just feeding the poor to the war machine.

Yeah my mom bought into the narrative. I was telling her what a disaster the debate was and of course she doesn't want to accept that.

So she latched onto headlines like this one.

I opened lemmy a few days ago to check the news after taking a break for a few days.

I hadn't even read anything yet and I felt my adrenaline start.

Buddhism defines metta as loving kindness, which also requires understanding because if we don't understand another person's needs it's difficult to be loving and kind towards them.

In the show, what the person was trying to say is, I am feeling insecure that you may be more attached to her than you are to me. I.e., I'm scared you're going to leave me for her.

Which is what we generally mean by love in our culture. At least what we mean by romantic love. A sense of attachment to the other person.

This isn't always a bad thing. I can be a little shy so when I am in public I tend to show a lot of attachment to my girlfriend, at least until I get comfortable in the space. But it can be a bad thing, if someone is so attached that they let it get in the way of treating their partner with kindness. Act manipulative or aggressive when the person pulls away, for example.

Likely.

We have 'muscle memory' in our visual cortex as well. So, we can train ourselves to spot stuff that is normally pretty difficult to spot with practice.

The morels being brown, and fruiting in leaves from last fall, it makes them pretty difficult to see.

Aside from that, they probably have a good idea of what spots to hit because they've been hitting those spots for years. As well as a understanding of good conditions to look for them, without having the knowledge of those conditions that I just gave.

And... Mushroom foragers are usually pretty sketchy about giving up their good spots.

Morels have a symbiotic relationship with the plant that they grow with. Most often elm trees.

The colony can live a long time. Depending on the species of morels 100 years, you know like as long as a tree will live. During this time they store nutrients in what is commonly called a truffle, mycologists call that a sclerotia. It's essentially a knot of mycelium packed full of nutrients, that they will fruit out of once they are separated from their food source, i.e. the tree.

Areas that have been hit by Dutch elm disease end up seeing a lot of morels fruiting, because a lot of trees are dying. Additionally morels like to fruit when the ground temperature is around 50 to 60°. Usually this will be on a south facing hill early in the spring if you are in the northern equator. As well as areas not getting so much direct sunlight later on in the spring.

Aside from that, like all mushrooms they enjoy fruiting after a rainfall. So the best time to look for them is when the ground temperature is 50 to 60°, it's just rained, and the best place to look for them is in areas with lots of elm trees. Especially elms that are dying from Dutch elm.