It's interesting what the internet has done to things like old wive's tales. In the past, when my mom would tell me "if your ears are ringing someone is talking about you" you'd take it at face value. Now within seconds you can verifty what is sense and what is non-sense. A subtle effect of the internet is a significant boost of the race's ( Read more... )

I've just noticed a subconscious pattern in my Wikipedia surfing. I usually start with the "criticisms" section of an article.

Do psychedelics make us understand better or worse? Do they heighten perception/mind or make us more susceptible to illusion/falsehoods? It seems plainly clear to me that it's the former, but non-users would vehemently argue it's the latter...

Why? Why do I feed myself a constant stream of information? I'm wondering if I'm starting to drown under the deluge. There always seems to be yet another interesting topic to read, it just never ends. But what is its use really? If I were to simply grok it all and never speak of it again it would be of little net use. When I die I'll just ( Read more... )