English works pretty much the same way (except for that quirk with “drug store”), when people talk about “drugs” they almost never mean alcohol etc… Even though alcohol is worse than many illegal drugs, main point in favor of alcohol being that it’s legal and thus you know pretty well what you get - no poisonous diluents/extenders, no guessing at how much of the stuff you buy is actually the drug you want instead of diluent/extender, no contamination with other drugs.
Western powers and their Opium Wars did a number on the people… and now the West have many truly “hard drug” zombies and countless professional cokeheads while these things are mostly unheard of in Asia. 🤷
You can’t just put psychoactive, mentally altering substances with beliefs in the same semantic box because you feel like it. The first one is material, chemical, whilst the second is immaterial, ideological, and their effects are very different.
Mmm, fair enough… Still, not the same, and they require different mental states to even approach them that require beliefs, while doing drugs just requires recklessness and curiosity.
Be that as it may, in this particular way they are similar. Drugs, meditation, prayer and maybe a couple other things are the only things that deliver this altered seeing. And given that they are unique that way, I’d say that’s a pretty good reason to put them in the same box
Mmm. I don’t think prayer can give you any altered seeing and I’m a religious man who prays often. I won’t speak for meditation cause I don’t do that but I doubt it can either. Now, shrooms? Shrooms can alter your sight, lol.
Drugs? As in Narcotics?
Nah, its socially unacceptable in most of Asia.
The Western World =/= Earth
Like y’all joke about drugs all the time, in Asia, that’s the equivalent of joking about terrorism.
Like “weed = cool” is not even a thing. Nobody would want to talk to you if they find out you smoke weed.
Alcohol, nicotine, caffeine are drugs, too.
But its not considered “毒品” in my native language.
Usually when people say “drugs”, it’s implied to mean “毒品” which refers to cocaine, crack, meth, heroin, and weed too.
At least that’s how I’ve mapped that word in my brain.
Which is why if you say you’re going to a “drug store” instead of “pharmacy”, a English as second language speaker is gonna look at you very weird.
English works pretty much the same way (except for that quirk with “drug store”), when people talk about “drugs” they almost never mean alcohol etc… Even though alcohol is worse than many illegal drugs, main point in favor of alcohol being that it’s legal and thus you know pretty well what you get - no poisonous diluents/extenders, no guessing at how much of the stuff you buy is actually the drug you want instead of diluent/extender, no contamination with other drugs.
Western powers and their Opium Wars did a number on the people… and now the West have many truly “hard drug” zombies and countless professional cokeheads while these things are mostly unheard of in Asia. 🤷
Drugs as in the whole body of techniques for changing your consciousness and seeing strange things. Substances, prayer, meditation, etc
You can’t just put psychoactive, mentally altering substances with beliefs in the same semantic box because you feel like it. The first one is material, chemical, whilst the second is immaterial, ideological, and their effects are very different.
I’m not putting drugs with beliefs. I’m putting drugs with methods like prayer and meditation
Mmm, fair enough… Still, not the same, and they require different mental states to even approach them that require beliefs, while doing drugs just requires recklessness and curiosity.
Be that as it may, in this particular way they are similar. Drugs, meditation, prayer and maybe a couple other things are the only things that deliver this altered seeing. And given that they are unique that way, I’d say that’s a pretty good reason to put them in the same box
Mmm. I don’t think prayer can give you any altered seeing and I’m a religious man who prays often. I won’t speak for meditation cause I don’t do that but I doubt it can either. Now, shrooms? Shrooms can alter your sight, lol.
I’ve done a fair bit of prayer and meditation and ya, it can. And I’ve read similar reported by others. And I’ve done shrooms too. So there you go.