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p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Arial;">Marcus,<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">"puritanism" was mentioned only because Nick, and indirectly Frank, used the term as a self-descriptor. Obviously there are other reasons for self imposed limits other than puritanism.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">You might not pour gasoline on your computer to improve it, but you might overclock it. For me, hallucinogens are closer to overclocking the brain/mind while cocaine, morphine, oxycodone, etc. are akin to gasoline. The latter are (bad) habit inducing but not the former.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Interestingly, most hallucinogens also have a side effect like overclocking — of generating excess heat.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">davew<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div>On Wed, Nov 20, 2019, at 7:07 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt"><div class="qt-WordSection1"><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font">Dave writes:</span><br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font"> </span><br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font">< Puritanism is one of those things that IS relative, in the sense that most everyone has a line that is not to be crossed, for no objective, rational, reason but just because "I don't want to."
I won't use recreational drugs (e.g. cocaine), drink to excess, or read (well I have, but don't anymore) romance novels. We are all puritans sometimes. ></span><br></p><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font"> </span><br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal">Puritanism? <span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font">Among the reasons I don’t take cocaine is that I held/hold a security clearance and I would have been caught within a few months if I had done that. For example, I also would not
think of improving my computer by pouring gasoline on it. Why would I expect some ham-handed intervention like that to work on my brain? Why should I go out of my way to find more bad habits within unknown consequences?</span><br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> <br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal">Marcus<br></p></div></div><div>============================================================<br></div><div>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<br></div><div>Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College<br></div><div>to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com<br></div><div>archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/<br></div><div>FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove<br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div></body></html>