sinsboldly
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23 Apr 2007, 7:49 pm
DeaconBlues wrote:
The term was first coined in the '60s, by a group of LSD users who believed that pharmaceutical alteration of their perceptions had led them to some "greater truth",
Damn straight! It led us to believe the STRAIGHTS (as we called the neurotypicals back then) were the cause of all of societies ills, mainly because they WERE society!
DeaconBlues wrote:
and had at the same time permanently altered their neurochemistry. (They were right about that last, to a point, but for the most part, it wasn't for the better.)
I consider myself one of those what were in the 'least part' that was affected for the better! I can only hope it is permanant!
DeaconBlues wrote:
George Carlin once observed that people are okay, taken two or three at a time; beyond that number, they start to choose up sides and wear armbands.)
ain't it the truth!
DeaconBlues wrote:
Enough? 
Gawd no! I could listen all day! Having lived through the history you described, it is fascinating to hear it from a different perspective!
Merle
