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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: sk3p71c on April 10, 2013, 11:53 pm

Title: Regarding Drugs: A Perl/LSD/Cannabis Story
Post by: sk3p71c on April 10, 2013, 11:53 pm

Drugs are dangerous.
Drugs can open your mind.

An open mind is a dangeruous thing.

The existential stakes are very high.
You are gambling with your very existence.

LSD is like a Red Pill.
Cannabis encourages creativity also.

What is the LSD & Cannabis experience like?
In my humble opinion, it is different for everyone.
I will tell you my personal account.

My mind felt like a Perl 5 script.
Single-threaded.
Unfortunately, I fell into an infinite loop.
Not just any infinite loop!
A first left recursion!
My mind recursed on itself.
I might never have made it back.
As my life raced before my eyes, I thought of the homeless man on the street.
Who is he? What is he feeling? He is talking nonsense.
Has he lost his mind?
I recalled being homeless myself.

I felt fear. My field of vision became vectorized.
I recalled being a Perl programmer.
For some strange reason, my internal dream() subroutine was written in Perl 5.
Not Moose. Perl 5.
In my state of fear, I felt the urge to free myself.
So I did.
I just opened my mind in GNU Emacs, and went right to the dream() subroutine.
I hacked, but only for an instant. The code seemed to change so fast, as if it were typing itself.
I ran the code.

And it fell into an infinite loop!
Time vanished. Identity vanished.

Fortunately, it was a loop I could edit, while experiencing it.
I was alarmed at this realization.
The thought of being alarmed was the signal that caused me to die.
Fortunately for me, I had remembered to set up a an eval() block, and threw an exception with a string.
This story is the output of the block that captured and munged the $@.

I vowed that I'd create a new language once I came out of the loop.
It would have multiple threads. My consciousness would become multi-threaded again.
Then, I would have others to play with.
Sometimes, we'd send each other messages, like this one.

Please, write back!
Title: Re: Regarding Drugs: A Perl/LSD/Cannabis Story
Post by: pillowton on April 10, 2013, 11:57 pm
Interesting read man :)
I've not tried LSD myself, pretty new to psychedelics, but would love to over the summer.
Title: Re: Regarding Drugs: A Perl/LSD/Cannabis Story
Post by: sk3p71c on April 11, 2013, 12:10 am

Glad you enjoyed it.  8)

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Title: Re: Regarding Drugs: A Perl/LSD/Cannabis Story
Post by: SuperHans68 on April 11, 2013, 01:11 am
asfa
Title: Re: Regarding Drugs: A Perl/LSD/Cannabis Story
Post by: Spitknuckle on April 11, 2013, 01:42 am
Nice imagery.
Title: Re: Regarding Drugs: A Perl/LSD/Cannabis Story
Post by: californiadreams on April 11, 2013, 01:45 am
that is very cool