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I believe the real reason alcohol and tobacco are dominant is that our culture is based on war; our young males are hardened in order to ensure enough of them will be willing to go to war so that our nation can continue to wage war around the world; it is characteristic of ruling classes that...

A note on another interesting recreational drug: oxytocin. This is a poly-peptide, a brain hormone that elevates "friendship vibes" (and, with lots of it, you get drowsy and cuddly, like a bear that wants to hibernate). Released in large amounts after sex. Thought, in current theory, to be...

Nah, not addictive...there is no habituation mechanism. You DO grow to like falling asleep easily (take enough and there are NO worries about falling asleep!! :)), and it's very nice to get a super boost of growth hormone while asleep (at 60, trust me, I'll take all the growth hormone I can...

I could argue that perhaps you weren't in a sufficiently high enough security prison, but I won't...because all of your points are well taken and I'm not at all certain that you're wrong. For example, we like to think that each of us "law abiding" citizens is not a criminal, and never would...

Oh, you did a great job, I didn't mean to criticize your effort; your list was hardly stupid...although if you did this again, you might wish to put up a list first and ask for input before creating the poll...the group mind on this sort of thing is more inclusive than any one mind can possibly...

Ah, relativism in it's most naked form. Trust me, if you had known these prisoners, or been their victims, you would not take such an "enlightened" view, my friend. You'd run like hell, there would be no doubt in your mind at all that the truly criminal mind exists, and you'd forget relativism...

Nice poll, Dimensional Transition, but you left out a few...heh heh heh GHB Nitrous Oxide Amyl Nitrate Carbon Dioxide (yup, breathing pure CO2...talk about a trip! ... probably the safest way to see hallucinatory vistas, so long as you have someone to pull you out of the dry ice chest before...

Having spent a year working as a doctor in a prison, I can assure anyone who cares to know that there are indeed people with criminal minds who are quite beyond any possible rehabilitation; they decided - or were predestined - to be criminals from at least teenage-hood, and they do not deviate...

This is a very good point. I didn't mean to give that impression; I didn't do a very good job of saying what I meant. What I meant is that because the MBTI is a self-assessment, and because it's so blasted hard to know oneself, that - at least in my personal experience - it appears that errors...

For me, that's the point...the test is flawed. It's a self-evaluation, and there's nothing harder than knowing oneself. That's why I don't see error when I look back and see how I mistyped myself as an ISTP initially, because I see how that happened, and then when I mistyped myself again as an...

It's a difficult question, and now I'm once again stuck in MBTI confusion-land.... For years I was convinced I was an ISTP...but that was only because I CAN sort of switch into ISTP under stress, and I was ALWAYS under stress... Then life quieted down a bit for long enough for me to retake the...

Thanks, Fedayeen, for the link and the fascinating article. At 60, I can assure everyone the phenomenon is quite real - my only hold on sanity at this point is the prospect of vastly extending my life with stem cell therapy; I completely understand how old people shut down their minds; you...

Precisely. I am in no way interested in a pod war - and it bothers me that Adymus, who has impressed me with intelligent, insightful posts in other threads, uses such a confrontational tone here...it's not needed, Adymus, and you are only shooting yourself in the foot; we are INTP's: we like to...

OK, so I just watched the first two videos of Thomas explaining the origins and foundations of pod'lair theory.... ...and I'm a little weirded out, because Thomas's vocabulary, manner of speaking, gestures, eye directions, tone of voice and...beard...hair...is sooooo much like my autistic 22...

I dig it; being a part Norwegian, and a Norwegephile, and having Thor Heyerdahl as my life hero, I'm glad to meet you, Sosekopp, and learn this word that describes me fairly well... one of the great all-time usernames; and I'm glad you cleared that up about the non-explosion of the cat...not...