Blundering_Novice wrote:MagikVenom wrote: I have know 13year olds how were smarter and wiser than 50 year olds.
I'm sorry, but I really, really, really, really doubt this. Such a remark is a perfect example of the danger in overstating your case.
Blundering_Novice wrote:Yes, *OF COURSE* there are going to be exceptions. And I am quite aware of the existence of child prodigies. It is no difficult feat to find a young person who seems smarter and more motivated than someone older than them. I do not mean to insinuate that it is impossible. Regardless, there are important life lessons, a sense of perspective, and a sense of cautious optimism that can only come with age. I don't care how many child Mensas there are. They don't have the experience yet.
I would ask you to look at everything you wrote (both initially and then follwing MV's post) now, how else would you expect him to respond? This wasn't a generalization, this was you calling out his example as hyperbolic rhetoric when it was in fact a legitimate personal example. Then you get flustered when he spells out his example...There's no need for all of this hectic/overly opinionated posting that serves, imho, very base purposes. He wasn't saying 13 year olds are smarter than 50 year olds, he was stating he had a personal account of such an occurrence, which you then attempted to shoot down and then, when the details were posted you resorted to talking in generalities about the lack of experience inherent in child prodigies (which was never the issue).
Sorry to jump in here, but I just feel that this post is indicative of a lot of abrasive type posts I've been reading recently where posters will attack each other on points that no one was making. If you had engaged on the things MV had actually said, this section of the thread would have flowed very differently. I'm not trying to attack anyone, I'm just trying to point something out. The tone of the Nexus has gotten very edgy over the past couple weeks and I think it would be nice to soften that up a little bit.
As far as paranoia goes, we have all been made criminals thanks to abusive and overly controlling laws. I think that with the environment created, the paranoia is an understandable side-effect of these policies. That being said, we must remember that we are a tony portion of the drug-using population and that the US is currently dealing with a meth/prescription pill epidemic. While that may raise our paranoia in the areas of watched extracting chemicals, it should relax us that psychedelics are nowhere near these other things in terms of effects or even cross-linked use (i.e. when your neighborhood highschool gets popped for its pill ring, they're most likely not gonna expose DMT to the news media). If you're reasonably careful, there's no reason anyone doing reasonably-sized kitchen extractions should have skyrocketing paranoia. It is always advisable to tread cautiously, but there's no reason to jump at every shadow that e catch out of the corner of our eye (shit, with all the lingering afterimages, I'd be completely distracted if I reacted to all the shadows jumping around my periphery).
peace
SB
Wiki •
Attitude •
FAQThe Nexian •
Nexus Research •
The OHTIn New York, we wrote the legal number on our arms in marker...To call a lawyer if we were arrested.
In Istanbul, People wrote their blood types on their arms. I hear in Egypt, They just write Their names.
גם זה יעבור