[kinghtown]

Damaged though implies broken or dysfunctional. Thing is, this guy is 100% coherent. His problem, to put it in a word as an outsider to whatever is going on in there, is closer in meaning to injury. I used to take mushrooms, acid, salvia like every other day for a couple of years when I was really at it and honestly I have trouble fathoming what 150 units of LSD would do. Anyone whose done a lot would shudder to think about the possibilities of what that’s like.

I get this odd feeling when talking to him that he is mostly playing along with conventions. Like he is well aware how close everyone is to madness. Or maybe there is a layer to reality outside of our senses, very strange and more real than real. Like for people who have never done anything crazier than smoking a joint or getting really drunk.. it’s pretty easy to disregard psychedelics as just intoxication. But the upper doses can be transformative to say the least.

I know people who have never done drugs who don’t seem to enjoy anything either.

[trabant00]

Nihilism for example is extremely coherent as a philosophy. Not a good way of living though.