Wim Nusselder and all,
Wim Nusselder wrote:
> Analogous to that, I think that experiencing DQ may be fun for the drug
user, but is not relevant for the world at large. It
> can't latch onto a (new) static pattern of value, because it is forced on
the user without any context of social and
> intellectual patterns that get the credit for the fun and can be induced
to migrate (to partly break up and change for the
> better). Use of peyote in the Native American church is a different thing,
for it has such a context of social and intellectual
> patterns.
A couple of questions:
Don't you think that those of us from a Western culture should be free to
modify that culture to suit our needs?
Would you call the current US government's "War on Drugs" not relevant to
the world at large?
Would you say that Psychedelic music was not a static pattern of value?
Wim Nusselder:
> Why use drugs? If what I experience is real and if it is possible to
experience it also in more culturally acceptable ways
> (even if they are more difficult), these other ways are better, because
they enable me to convince others (and myself)
> that my experience is veracious and worthy of application.
Do you think it reasonable to compare two experiences, one of which you know
admit to never having experienced?
Smiles,
AreteLaugh
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