Disclaimer: I’m not a troll, I used to be very (too) active on GZD here and on reddit. Feel free to search through my history here or on reddit over 1 month ago. There’s also this using Pushshift. Regarding my name “Pinkeston” because the trueanon people kept pointing that out. It’s a play on words from the 1996 Weezer album “Pinkerton” (which I used to love but can’t listen to anymore because it’s incelly) but it’s “pinkest” so it’s more “pink” than “pinker”. I never knew of the “American private security guard and detective agency” when I chose this username 4 years ago

About 3-4 weeks ago I double steeped about 6g of shrooms to make a ridiculously strong tea, and while there’s so much about that trip that I could write about, I just want to talk about the title. I wanted to post this earlier but waited this long because there’s always an afterglow where you’re still affected by the drugs but that completely went away after only 2 days for me and I still feel the same or possibly even stronger as I did immediately after the trip

During the trip, I thought about the Russia Ukraine war since that’s kind of always on my mind and I imagined all the suffering that was occurring on the land. For a very slight bit I was dropped in the middle of the war field on the ground and experienced all the destruction and death around me and I cried and wept for all the victims that are experiencing Hell RIGHT NOW

I realized that resisting and escalating tensions can only lead to more harm and suffering. The fighting will never end. The total amount of deaths and pain caused worldwide in 100 years of resistance will be mountains higher than no resistance at all

Violence only breeds more violence. No matter what the politics are (NATO expansion, Azov massacres in Donbas, etc.), you can’t solve those issues with just more war

The only way to create a peaceful just world is to change it through companionship and love. Forcefully submitting others to your will only creates more suffering and oppression that will result in never ending cycles

Revolutionaries who have overthrown kings and dictators, workers that have forced their company’s hand by going on strikes, and even people who have gone against their employer/state by leaking secrets like Snowden, Manning, and Assange

I can respect their well-meaning intentions but all of these only contribute or create new problems that are the exact same ones they were trying to solve

I’m asking all of you to please consider and realize all the harm you’d be doing by even just unionizing at work. It’s a slippery slope to mass destruction and suffering. No more resisting for the sake of EVERYBODY

Make love not war

  • @Idliketothinkimsmart
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    72 years ago

    Lord, I looked at his reddit account and he seems committed to this hippie peace and love stuff. Don’t get me wrong, I think he’s right in that we shouldn’t relish in violence, but you have to be naive to not understand why revolutionaries are forced into it.

    I couldn’t imagine getting this scrambled, holy shit. 6 g’s is a fuck ton of mushrooms, though.

    [Don’t go harassing him, people. Be better!]

    • SovereignState
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      62 years ago

      I did 6g’s once. Experienced “ego death” for the first time and came to grips with a lot of shit that was wrong with my life at the time. Became even more of a communist. I have utterly no idea how you could go from ML to this liberal because of a single trip… hopefully it wears off.

      • @Idliketothinkimsmart
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        42 years ago

        Based on my interactions with them, they seem somewhat young? I hope so as well.

        I don’t really see myself changing so drastically if I ever took that much, at least as far as ideology goes. I feel like there’s a certain level of dialectical development that you can’t get rid of once you see it.

        In areas where I’m not as sure about in life, I’d be terrified of what that much could do to me.

        • SovereignState
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          62 years ago

          I wouldn’t recommend anyone do that much unless they’re an experienced “psychonaut” and are seeking something utterly mind-altering. I did that much because my meds have a tendency to reduce the potency of drugs and I figured I needed that much to get the experience I wanted. Hours of crying buck ass naked, slurring my words and hallucinating pretty scary things later… I’m ok on a dose that big for a long, long time lol