| User | Comment |
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| hunter | | posted 18-Apr-1999 9:10pm |
Mostly, I would not want this ability, at least not more than once. I'm kind of intrigued by the idea of reading the mind of a pet (although I don't currently have one). |
| mandy | | posted 18-Apr-1999 9:15pm |
I'd love to know what my child is thinking when she's outside dancing around in the yard....happily pretending and
playing... |
| Handle | | posted 18-Apr-1999 9:28pm |
Myself. I would like a complete and objective understanding of my own thinking process and my own motivations. |
| lara | | posted 18-Apr-1999 9:32pm |
I wouldn't want to be able to read anyone's mind. |
SueBee  | | posted 18-Apr-1999 9:51pm |
My boss is a tough one to figure out sometimes, so I'd love to be able to read his mind. As for other people, we all need to have our own private thoughts and I don't think it would be good for my relationships with others if I could read their minds. It has the potential for hurt feelings, and one-sided I think it would be totally unfair. Besides, what would we talk about then?  |
| SueBee | | posted 18-Apr-1999 9:55pm |
I missed "a pet" the first time. I've always thought that would be fascinating. Hopefully I wouldn't discover that
they were planning a rebellion! |
| supplicant | | posted 19-Apr-1999 5:13am |
I wouldn't - that's their business, not mine. It'd be a mass invasion of personal space, and considering how much I value mine one of the worst crimes I could possibly commit. |
bill   | | posted 19-Apr-1999 7:25am |
I wish I could read my own mind sometimes.
I don't think I want to read the mind of someone else. If it was 2-sided though, where they got to read my mind at the same time, I would be more interested.
The more I think about it, the more I wonder what "reading someone's mind" really means. What would that be like? |
| romkey | | posted 19-Apr-1999 9:19am |
I wouldn't. Sometimes I have too much insight into other people already. I think reading someone else's mind that way would be hell. I'd end up just having to avoid them all the time.
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| romkey | | posted 19-Apr-1999 9:20am |
I missed the pet option, too. That would be kind of cool.
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| magbast | | posted 19-Apr-1999 10:43am |
prolly my SO |
| steve | | posted 19-Apr-1999 4:30pm |
Alan Greenspan. |
| jjg | | posted 19-Apr-1999 7:33pm |
Alan Greenspan. |
| madamex | | posted 20-Apr-1999 1:10am |
None of the above, *especially* the ones closest to me. I'm quite sure most of the things other people don't tell me they're thinking about are things I really don't want to know. |
| Pomeranian | | posted 20-Apr-1999 1:14am |
With just three hits of exctasy, you just might get a cat to talk to you. |
| hunter | | posted 20-Apr-1999 1:53am |
I am reminded of one of my favorite Mr. Boffo panels, entitled "The best deal the devil ever made." Boffo says "I'd sell my soul to know what she's thinking," referring to the woman at the other end of the bar whose thought balloon reads "Boing! Boing! Boing!" |
| bill | | posted 20-Apr-1999 8:15am |
Pomeranian, taking too much ecstasy is a bad thing. Taking lots of acid can be cool, but lots of X is just dangerous. |
| jonathan | | posted 20-Apr-1999 9:45am |
I'd pick some really thoughtful person (like Joseph Campbell when he was alive) so I could get an added source of inspiration in my life. |
| gilly | | posted 20-Apr-1999 1:12pm |
No one. Tempting, but I'm too afraid of what I might find out. And
I'm morally pretty squicked by the thought of doing it without
someone's knowledge or permission. |
| magbast | | posted 20-Apr-1999 1:51pm |
too much X can kill you..i know for a fact...while in college..a girlfriend of a friend died from one hit of X...they were in a club...she freaked...her heart stopped...when the paramedics got there...they revived her...shortly after her heart seized again...for good :( |
| hunter | | posted 20-Apr-1999 2:43pm |
Amphetamines are a great way to find out if you have an undiagnosed heart condition. |
| magbast | | posted 20-Apr-1999 2:57pm |
i was under the impression that you don't have to have a heart condition...X is so widespread now, you never know who made it and what they cut it with...crystal methane...cocaine...heroin...take your pick...i thinks it's a "suicide" (meaning multi-drug mixture, not killing yourself) pill... |
| grmbrand | | posted 20-Apr-1999 4:29pm |
Knowing Henry Rollins' every thought is a terrifying prospect, but as long as I could turn it off every once in a while, I'd be cool with it. |
| magbast | | posted 20-Apr-1999 4:31pm |
grmbrand...for the most part, henry rollins speaks every last thing on his mind :) |
| hunter | | posted 20-Apr-1999 4:31pm |
The thing is, from what I understand (from reading about Sergei Grinkov's death and from drug-related reading), most heart problems never get diagnosed and occur far more frequently than we think, because very few of us actually push the boundaries of what our bodies can do. Severe stimulants always vastly increase one's risks of finding out things like this.
I have heard of X being cut with things, but I have never known it to be the case, so I will not speak to that. |
| Pomeranian | | posted 20-Apr-1999 5:51pm |
Just for the record...the bit about the cat was a reference to the film "Go". I don't advocate anyone actually taking three hits at once, though I do advocate anyone seeing the film "Go". |
| Mattias | | posted 20-Apr-1999 7:35pm |
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| magbast | | posted 20-Apr-1999 10:26pm |
well, i'm not too hip to drugs anymore...this was in 1995 so i'm not sure what was in it...probably amphetamines...and cocaine (which i believe to be the purest and strongest of caffeine, right?)...so i was just stating my opinion, no facts whatsoever |
| Gamera | | posted 21-Apr-1999 6:19pm |
I was thinking about whether I would pick an SO, wondering whether I'm really strong enough to know everything that goes on in either of their minds, but then I saw the comment about being "one-up," I'm not at all interested in one-up-manship in a relationship. Also, I realized that any other person has all this personal context - a life time of connotations and associations - built up which I could never understand, so I'd much rather have my SO's tell me what they are thinking and the context in which they were thinking it, then have to try to interpret it myself. It's more like sharing this way, and less like spying. Then I thought, maybe a famous artist, someone whose work I really admire, but I came up with similar problems, or maybe that they might just be so brilliant that I'd be intimidated by their thoughts and never create a bold piece of artwork again (I'd always be trying to think like so-and-so). So finally, I decided that I'm just really curious about what goes on in the minds of certain world leaders with whom I have no personal relationship at all. I mean, really, just what the hell is Milosevic thinking, anyway?!?! I'm curious! |
| steve | | posted 21-Apr-1999 6:43pm |
topper: Hunter's theory is that he's possessed by a demon. It's really the only hypothesis that makes his behavior make any kind of sense. |
| eris | | posted 22-Apr-1999 1:55pm |
For most of the people I'd be interested in knowing what's in their head, I'd also be a bit afraid of finding out. |
| robin | | posted 22-Apr-1999 3:34pm |
I don't want to be able to read the minds of anyone I know socially. I really like talking to people about what they think and feel, and knowing what they were thinking would ruin the fun.
I frequently wish that I knew all the things going on in a doctor's head. If I could tell that, I wouldn't have to spend so much time finding one who could communicate well with me.
steve/hunter: If Milosevic is really possessed by demons, I recommend that he have a hole drilled in his head to let them out. There is a word for that treatment that I keep forgetting. |
| daver | | posted 22-Apr-1999 3:38pm |
**robin: Trepanation, in which one uses a trephine to trepan. I love English. |
| milktree | | posted 22-Apr-1999 6:25pm |
nobody |
they  | | posted 22-Apr-1999 6:33pm |
I saw an ad in the yellow pages once for a pet psychic and always wondered about it ;) |
| dpolicar | | posted 23-Apr-1999 4:52pm |
My SO, but I'd tell him about it. |
| romkey | | posted 24-Apr-1999 9:56am |
magbast: I'm not an expert on cocaine, but I'm pretty certain that it's not caffiene. Also, I did a medline search on E a couple of years back and found that most injuries/deaths/hospitalizations due to it were related to people being stupid about how they used it - taking it, dancing all night, getting overheated, not drinking any water, and passing out. Or taking it every day for a month. |
| magbast | | posted 24-Apr-1999 9:09pm |
i found this...it's about the coca plant....from which cocaine is derived...not caffeine...but i'm still searching...i'm curious as to the comparison of the coca extract and caffeine compositions |
| eris | | posted 26-Apr-1999 6:43pm |
romkey, magbast: caffeine, cocaine, ecstasy (MDMA), and amphetamine are all different substances. They all have stimulant effects (though X has a bunch of other effects as well), but only ecstasy and speed are closely related chemically. Caffeine and cocaine are naturally-occurring substances while ecstasy and amphetamine are only synthetic. What romkey said about E matches my understanding of it pretty well, though obviously if it is adulterated with other substances things may be different. I looked around a little on the web, and didn't find a lot of info I liked, but What's your poison? has decent pages on caffeine and ecstasy, and if you're curious, the chemical structures of all these (and more) are available in a somewhat broken web page from the Rutgers University chemistry club. |
| eris | | posted 26-Apr-1999 9:17pm |
Playing with another search engine, I found ecstasy.org, which seems to have quite a bit of reasonable info. Magbast - check out the section on testing. |
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Caesar.....................................................michael |
