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juleiietoday at 7:45 PM6 repliesview on HN

You don't need anything.

It is the bilion dollar industrial complex that sold you solution to the problem created by the very same system. Just take a pill.

It's ingenious really.

Create the problem, sell the solution.

I am rich generally speaking and I have privilege to see everything from my high vantage point. From here I can easily see how life looks if you can afford to say: No thank you.

I don't even understand the very concept of suicide or depression. It seems fantastical. Because, I am outside the cruel system or rather I am at the steer in some capacity.


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kcoultoday at 8:10 PM

this post just demonstrates the lack of sympathy/empathy so many rich people seem to have for others. There is a huge difference between taking pills designed to eternally treat symptoms and never the root cause, vs a plant medicine that might actually address the root cause of a problem. Bufo unfortunately has the added problem of coming from an animal rather than a plant, I agree with another post that suggests using synthetic where possible, but one should also not give up the opportunity to do life-changing personal development...

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alecbztoday at 8:49 PM

> understands people and knows what people need

> does not understand the concept of [incredibly common psychological problem]

jdanfordtoday at 8:07 PM

Your comment isn’t useful to anyone but you

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denkmoontoday at 8:34 PM

The type of mind that could genuinely benefit from a psychedelic…