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Is it possible to be an intellectual and comprehend higher literature if you smoke weed?

>> No.6974409

no

>> No.6974411

>>6974403
no

>> No.6974413

nay

>> No.6974417

>>6974403
thomas pynchon
david foster wallace
shakespeare

>> No.6974420

>>6974403

I think so... but you can't go "balls to the wall" with it like some writers do with the booze.

>> No.6974427

>>6974409
>>6974409
>>6974411
>>6974413
And as for cigarettes and alcohol?

>> No.6974429

Only if you're productive on top of smoking weed.

>hurr eating the devils lettuce will turn u retarded
>hurr its physically impossible to do anything of worth if u consume substances

on the flip side

>hurr I smoke weed every day why am I not published all I do is eat and look at porn
>hurr weed isn't addicting I would know I smoke it every day

>> No.6974439

>>6974429
Good point, thanks anon, looks like it was my last mj experience today

>> No.6974450

raw talent beats anything of course - but it won't make you better

>> No.6974463

I smoke weed and guarantee I know more than anyone on this board, both esoterically and generally.

>> No.6974465

>>6974450
I guess there is where the dilemma occurs: the mentality that weed enhances ones thoughts

>> No.6974473

>>6974463
what was your degree in?

>> No.6974478

>>6974465
It doesn't enhance shit. If you need it in the first place, you were already mediocre in the beginning.

>> No.6974481

>>6974463
Doubtful, when weed has the tendency to perpetuate the mentality that
>I'm in control
>My mind has surpassed that of my previous self

>> No.6974485

>>6974478
A bit pessimistic, but hey there was bound to be one or two that had something to say about this.

I agree it doesn't help, but if I recall correctly
>weed affects everyone differently

>> No.6974486

>>6974465
It kinda does. There's some truth behind that. But it's just lowering the signal/noise ratio. Lots of what seems significant or amazing is pure garbage or too internally referenced to be of any use. But there's some pearls once in a while too.

I know my word count is higher when I'm not blasted - Hunter Thompson I'll never be.

>> No.6974492

>>6974478
I wasn't stating this as a result of smoking weed, but more of the general statement that most potheads state or tell themselves.

>> No.6974493

>>6974403
>me
Confirmed yes

>> No.6974496
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6974496

i smoke weed while reading and it makes everything interesting as fuck.

im reading herodotus right now and i can sort of cast myself into the people he mentions and imagine very realistically something of what their thoughts and emotions might have been and it owns bones lmao straight edge faggots on suicide watch

>> No.6974501

>>6974486
I guess, but why hope for pearls when sobriety will increase the ease of being intellectually competent

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>>6974493
Haha yeah
>me

>> No.6974510

Some frogs to had a hash and opium writing club

>> No.6974513

>>6974510
What are you referring to?

>> No.6974515

>>6974413
nay is for norses

>> No.6974520

>>6974501
I'd never recommend it as a regular thing. But I keep a bit around because it can be amazing at blowing you out of mental ruts. Deprecated if you have any addictive tendencies though - I bless my genes for that at least.

But is it essential? Hell no.

>> No.6974522

>>6974403
>>6974427
never consume these substances in your youth. otherwise, experiment and see what's possible. do not go to excess, however.

>> No.6974523

>>6974510
>>6974513

-to*

Club des Hashischins

>> No.6974529

>>6974463
Alright, explain what centrifugal force is.
Hard mode: also explain why it doesnt actually exist.

>> No.6974534

>>6974522
Umm I don't believe I detect sarcasm, yet smoking and drinking very much requires ingestion through the mouth.

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>>6974427
>Alcohol
>mfw

>> No.6974546

>>6974529
That question is rather subjective is it not? Unless you believe it's common intellectual knowledge to know its workings down to minutiae

>> No.6974552

>>6974545
Would you prefer a different term? Or is liquor more tasteful

>> No.6974647

>>6974546
If this poster is the same as
>>6974463

You are literally delusional. Seek help from a mental health professional posthaste.

>> No.6975807

>>6974552
No, "liqueur" is more tasteful.

"liquor" is such a disgusting word.

>> No.6975816

>>6974481
What is this delusional shit?

When high you should always think "I'm fucking high, better not take everything I think as fucking absolute truth"

Kinda like "I'm drunk, I shouldn't be driving a car or running a marathon"

>> No.6975819

>>6974417
Is TP confirmed or is this just more, woah, trippy content = trippy author bullshit?

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>>6974403
shakespeare did it

>> No.6975980

Is it possible to understand basic science and still smoke weed?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeF6rFN9org

On other news it /is/ possible to be a presumptuous twit and not smoke weed, as OP has proven.

>> No.6976027

>>6975807
Two different things though m8.

>> No.6976070

>>6975980
what is it with all of these 'informative' videos having the same twee aesthetic and slightly-lisped male narrator?

>> No.6976129

>>6974529
Not the other anon but centrifugal force is the force seen to act outwardly from a rotating object (like clothes in a washing machine are pushed to the outside). It doesn't exist if the measurements are taken from an inertial frame of reference (I.e. outside of the rotating object) iirc. An inertial frame of reference is a non-accelerating frame.

>> No.6976140

>>6976129
420 blaze it smoke weed ery'day btw

>> No.6976146

>>6976070
The simplistic design is meant to present a "big" idea in an easily digested way. The effeminate male is what shows like "The Big Bang Theory" have conditioned us that scientists act/look/sound like.

>> No.6976164

>>6976146
It's really frustrating sometimes. So many of those narrators take on a tone that's not exactly smug but more matter-of-factly, as if they're saying 'see this stuff isn't that difficult you should have no problem with it (but you're in trouble if you do'. But at the same time their 4 minute explanations are so superficial that they nearly reach the point of being incorrect by being so simplistic.

>> No.6976184

>>6975980
Wow, what a terrible video. You can't just say that a substance shortens the refractory period of neurons and then conclude that "because of this your thoughts and imagination magnify themselves," that's like saying "you're overweight because of the fat in your body so you need to avoid putting more fat in it, you should just eat carbs and protein and you'll get slim in no time!"

If you don't know anything about a subject, don't make fucking informational videos about it. Jesus Christ.

>> No.6976470

>>6976164
Big Bang Theory in a nutshell

>>6976184
See the previous post -
>explanations are so superficial that they nearly reach the point of being incorrect by being so simplistic.

As the poster of the video, the point wasn't to have this as the end all be all of pot science. It was to point out the inanity in equating ingesting a substance with anti-intellectualism and the inability to comprehend ideas. Brain chemistry simply doesn't work that way, even if explained in short hand.

>> No.6976490

>>6975807
but liqueur refers to a specific type of sweet, high-alcohol sipping liquor, like amaretto or triple sec or irish cream. It's not just a feaux-French way of saying liquor.

>> No.6976504

>>6974552

No. He was referring to Nietzsche's aversion to alcohol.

>> No.6976506

>>6976490
they have the same roots though

>> No.6976536

>>6976506
That doesn't make them interchangeable you jackass

>> No.6976571

>>6974403
Criteria A and B are entirely disconnected.

You might as well as if you can be an olympic athlete and still sleep with a teddy.

>> No.6976602

>>6974534
>never consume these substances in your YOUTH
can you even fucking read anon

>> No.6976612

fuck that, take some speed

edit sober tho, always edit sober

>> No.6976660

>>6976612
At least one of your rewrites should be done completely fucked on something. Saved in a different file of course.

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6976745

I used to smoke multiple times a week for a couple of months in succession when I was seventeen.
Am I fucked?

>> No.6977069

>>6976536
Still, would you really be drinking liqueur more than other alcoholic beverages? What else are we to assume?

>> No.6977073

>>6976602
Given I was high when making this, no not very well.

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6977085

>thinking you're cool for smoking weed

>> No.6977147

>>6977085
It still baffles me that there actually are people out there who reason with the same psudeo-logic as in these quentin comics
>smoking weed is against the law
>so is murder
>what does that say about weed

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6977151

>>6977147
but stoners are retards, so it's only appropriate that you treat them like retards

>> No.6977302

>>6977151
>I don't have to make real arguments because I presume my opponent is stupid

>> No.6977369

>>6975807
Le wreng generation

>> No.6977383

>>6977151
I'm gonna assume you're still in middle school if this is how stoners you know act