My rant of the day

[Necromunchkin]

I've given up drinking and instead have turned to "all-natural" herbal stimulants. The shit you can buy in convenience stores, I tell you. I find it comforting the way my heart thumps in my chest when I'm trying to sleep now from the excessive ephedra, taurine and caffeine in my blood. To balance it, I've started drinking diet soda.

I had a dream last night that half-the world's population had been rendered sterile overnight. You have no idea how depressing it was when I woke up and realized it was only a dream.

Goatcheese is good. Satanic cheese. Very metal.

I have to go.

 

[RETIREDTrapped]

Diet soda is poisonous dude, seriously. The artificial sweetener that is put into it (can't remember the name... *racks brain* ) builds up in the brain, and can cause both cancer and strokes. Just thought you'd like to know.

You don't need anything at all to stimulate your mind at all dude. I went from artificial chemicals into natural stuff, and then i thought "Hang on, in both cases, i'm putting something foreign into my body... that can't be good ". I'm learning very slowly that there are other ways to stimulate the mind and body.

Simple things such as music and reading and sometimes visual stimulation can be great door-openers, and trust me, once you get one of those little fuckers open, you'll be swimming in creativity and thoughts you never knew you had in you. Most important thing is to start of by concentrating really hard on what you are doing, such as with music, and basically do the same thing you do with those 'magic eye' picture things, you just relax into it, and it all comes to you. Music is awesome, close your eyes, and after a while you start to realize that it stimulates different colour responses with different styles and timbres of music, there's lines colours and a multitude of things that you simply can't imagine...

I'm healthier than ever, and i'm more open mentally that i ever was taking chemicals... Even just stopping those things smacks you in the face, for while they open doors, they close other passages and thoughts...

...And i gave up drinking a few months ago. It feels good

 

[Necromunchkin]

So much for levity.

Satanic cheese is still cool, though.

 

[Necromunchkin]

Now excuse me, I must go kill my drunk neighbor who is fueding with his roomates and smashing bottles against the door. Where's my damn wooden spoon...?

 

[PlatypusJesus]

So true Trapped.

 

[PlatypusJesus]

music and imagination are the real drugs in life.

 

[jimbobhickville]

aspartame is the name of the artificial sweetener (Most common brand name is Nutrasweet).

 

[RETIREDTrapped]

Yes! Aspartame is the one, it builds up in the brain.

It's a terrible thing... considering i just consumed 2 litres of diet lemonade...

 

[Necromunchkin]

Pheylalanine, the joys of phenylkurotics.

 

[Reminiscence]

We sure do know more about the world over 4 years later!

 

[Captain Beard]

They still can't prove that artificial sweetener thing btw.

 

[Shpongled]

music and imagination are the real drugs in life.

Agreed. Note the sig quote

 

[Captain Beard]

Sometimes to be honest, I don't like the inside of my head, either.

 

[derek]

Agreed. Note the sig quote

I adore Terrence McKenna, yet I've never noticed that before.

Out of interest Jim, why have you given up drinking?

 

[Captain Beard]

2002 sir.

 

[derek]

Whoops.

Why the hell was it brought back up.

 

[Necromunchkin]

No shit. I was trying to figure out if someone had gotten into my account then realized this was a post from damn near 5 years ago.

And I always go through phases where I stop drinking... but I inevitably come back when life becomes gray around the edges.