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If you were here during the pork pie wars, ODs, stab fests, EP vs FP wars, Rain's meth in the fridge episodes, Cinos' meltdowns and Reger's regurgitations please check in

Cheers ... yes, never was really gone, but definitely back and still on it.

Rarely post anymore but I still surf through every once in awhile.

Here i am , 25 years older...!!! Hope you guys doing alright! Sure i miss the old days! I log in once every 2-3 years now just to read the same threads over and over again....!!!

Still around and the music is still a big part of my life but haven't had much time for forums lately, work is crazy these days.

My first rave was a Goa Gil Mahayagya in India in 1999 , I think. With no exposure to the music as a teenager and with no idea what to expect I spent the night trying to make sense of what i was hearing , seeing and smelling around me - the 4 by 4 beat , fluorescent backdrops with elves and goblins , braided hippies dancing away , It was an assault on the senses ( in a good way) i was intrigued no end by the setting the music and the people. When the sun came up , i witnessed the magic which then stuck with me forever .I was an initiation like no other. My brother went on to give me his forest of the saints cassette that he had picked up from Goa earlier and the rest as they say is history .. I owe my "getting into" psytrance to the man himself so he will always occupy a special place in my psych. RIP babaji ! hope you continue your party wherever you are .. 🎵🌈🌙

I try to limit my meat consumption. I absolutely love cooking with it and that feeling of a nice bit of animal protein after a multi-day psychedelic adventure. I'm very into lab grown meat though and would love to remove the animal torture and environmental impacts.

I love meat, I love the taste, I love the smell, I love the infinite variety of recipes around the world and I've been eating it since I was a kid. Despite all that I stopped eating it some time ago now for ecological reasons. With less and less deviation, not that easy. I can't do much on my own to fight the disaster but that I can. The ethical argument and the "cognitive dissonance", I dealt with quite well until then, but it's true that I feel more in tune now.

Basic fact is that meat does not contain any special nutrient that is not available elsewhere with the exception of vitamin B12, which is given to livestock as a supplement in high doses (because mammals do not actually produce vitamin B12, bacteria produce B12). And there's really no reason to pass your B12 tablet through a cow before consuming it. So there is really no good reason to be eating meat other than "I like the taste", which is a personal choice (one that most people make as a matter of routine rather than consciously) . But it is a choice that comes with many consequences to the planet, to the animals which need to die, and to the psyche of the person who makes that choice. I say psyche because the vast majority of people do everything possible, mentally speaking, to separate the act of eating meat with the reality of what that entails. It creates a form of denial, a lie that you tell yourself, a part of you that you ignore and keep quiet because you do not want to be made aware of the internal contradiction. It's quite literally a form of cognitive dissonance. And I personally do not think it's a healthy way to live. Stopping the consumption of meat lifts a great burden from the psyche and frees us to live more fully and in tune with our principles. I highly recommend it.

Hello. I do the occasional lurking.

You are accusing others of bringing politics into it when nobody has done such a thing and you are the one and only person bringing politics into it, in the very same post. You seem more concerned about the possibility of being asked to condemn terrorist actions than you are about the victims of those actions. Seriously, don't you have anything better to do than troll message threads where people are sharing sympathies of victims of heinous crimes? Has it occurred to you that members on this forum know some of these people personally? If you don't have anything nice to say then rather don't speak at all.

Are you being serious right now? You're the only one bringing this up. Nobody has mentioned a single thing about politics. Nobody except you. You can keep your 2 cents. Why are you even commenting here? 260 of our psytrance brothers and sisters have just been savagely and senselessly murdered. Have some common decency.

's all good bro

was certainly a colourful character, and he and i definatley had our arguments, but disabled or not, some of the things he said about people, especially women was horrendous and there lied the problem