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  • Are magic mushrooms considered to be a stimulant or a sedative? I thought they were hallucinogens.

    EDIT:

    Stimulant: an agent (such as a drug) that produces a temporary increase of the functional activity or efficiency of an organism or any of its parts.

    Sedative: tending to calm, moderate, or tranquilize nervousness or excitement.

    Hallucinagen: a substance that induces hallucinations.

    Psylocibin: a hallucinogenic indole obtained from a fungus (such as Psilocybe mexicana or P. cubensis synonym Stropharia cubensis).


  • Again, I get where you’re coming from.

    The reality of the situation is that a movement is full of factions. People aren’t a monolith and they think differently and feel differently. Jk Rowling considers herself a feminist, and she is an iteration of what a feminist can look like sadly.

    Think of religious sects, they all fall under the same umbrella of Christianity or Judaism or what have you, but have radically different beliefs and feelings.

    They get involved in protests and push their agendas just like any other group of people.

    Or tankies! They fucking suuuuuuck and they are communist! I like communism by the way, but tankies can eat and then shit out some Lego blocks.




  • I feel like it would be better to phrase that as you found them uninteresting.

    Or did you mean they are un-interesting in a way most of society would say someone is uninteresting. Like they aren’t interesting because they don’t follow sports or TV shows? Or they only talk about work or kids? Those people can still be interesting, just to different types of people.

    They may not be interested in being interesting for other people?






  • I take issue with describing Josephus as a part of the ‘losing’ side. Josephus had defected and was working as an interpretor for Titus while Titus was conducting the seige on Jerusalem in 70 AD. He took on the Roman emperor’s family name, Flavius. He firmly sits on the ‘winning’ side, with the Romans.

    Plus later on Christian’s were the ones copying his books, not Jews, since he was viewed as a turncoat by his own people. So his books were preserved by the ‘winning’ side as well.

    Not saying he should be completely disregarded or written off as a historian, just that he wasn’t part of any ‘losing’ side of history.





  • Asked me of I was emo in front of the whole classroom. I couldn’t figure out how to respond and everyone kind of didn’t like me after that. Only a 2 week summer course in 10th grade, thank goodness. I’m really awkward and quiet, and I hesitated/struggled to meet her eyes for a ‘get to know your classmates’ game on the first day and I think she just hated me from there. I can be debilitatingly shy sometimes and can come off as stand offish, but still, I don’t think I really deserved all that I got those 2 weeks.

    She took our pictures and had us use photoshop to make them reflect into a funny alien face and everyone laughed the most at mine. Didn’t feel like a laughing with me kind of way, but I can be over sensitive. I get flashbacks of how I felt in that moment. Blegh.