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I found acid to be incredibly uninteresting tbh. Now I'll grant you, I probably didn't ever take that big a hit, was never in an awesome enough place, and never was otherwise sober enough to really enjoy it, but still I think that LSD is terribly overrated.

Maybe it was just that combination of me being drunk or mildly on benzos or somesuch that helped smooth over any weirdness from ever cropping up, but I really do think that partly what I just found from acid was pretty much what I expected out it at best and otherwise a lot of unexpected things weren't as great. I think that basically part of the problem is I already have too much of a compatible mindset to acid or something. I heard the apocryphal story about a Buddhist monk being given acid, with people (usually dumbass bydlo and druggie friend types) being all, can you even imagine how mindblowing it must be for a Buddhist monk, and the monk, completely unphased, saying just "yes it was interesting" or somesuch not terribly and unphased reaction.

Mine was not even that. I didnt even find it interesting. I saw at one point in my minds eye lots of things being devils or sins trying to tempt me and the concept of finding the Truth and reaching it and reaching God only to be so thoroughly convinced of your own paranoia to keep looking for the higher reality, and thus only achieving further delusion by grasping beyond that and still searching (which I guess there's a Christian equivalent in meeting Jesus and not recognizing Him being a similar concept) and how even the thought of that could be an instilled doubt set to undermine you from searching further and finding the deeper Truth etc but it was still all terribly uninteresting to me.

I would say however that perhaps the least expected part of LSD to me was just how not just banal it really was but also the extent to which I felt in control and handled my shit because I can't deal with weed which makes me paranoid (in case it not being obvious how deeply ill at ease I am in many ways). It was unexpectedly speedy, which I hated and was thankful for the alcohol, and with a metallic taste, and with such a complete sense of internal ease it didnt bother me, which is perhaps why it was so unexpectedly easy going because I think that no matter how ill at ease I am with the cosmos I am not uneasy with myself regardless of how much I probably should be. Concepts of self loathing and self disgust have typically been pretty elusive concepts to me so perhaps that is part of why some people have bad trips and I didn't, but at the same time the only interesting thing about it which also surprised me was how much I noticed details I hadn't before in my surroundings that were actually there as opposed to hallucinations which were few except for fractal like swirling in my wallpaper.

My best estimation is that had I took say six hits of acid and not been drinking things would've been different but at the same time I feel no compunction to do so. It matched aspects of my personality too well and I felt like a slightly disinterested monk whose primary problem with it is this reality can seldom get the lighting just right particularly when artificial ones are involved, although morning light also looks terrible. I can't stand the angles and points of illumination after sunrise.

But then again, I am also saying this as one who often joked that I was too jaded for heroin and the one time I tried that I also found it to be incredibly boring and uninteresting, thus proving my original stipulation correct: I am indeed far too jaded for heroin. Because it was boring and I was thoroughly unimpressed with it.

Hes a spook.
He had too many spook markers on him aka lucky coincidences.The only other even more famous venetian jew is Napoleon ofcourse.
I guess Marco Polo stories was a project to popularize/increase international maritime trading which Columbus was the biggest proper kickstart of them all.
Since Polo was a jew i guess we can indirectly see their influence and power in that period of time in the places where he "travelled".

At wiki we have: ‘During the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644), a Ming emperor conferred seven surnames upon the Jews, by which they are identifiable today: Ai (艾), Shi (石), Gao (高), Gan (甘), Jin (金), Li (李), Zhang (張), and Zhao (趙). Two of these, Jin and Shi, are the equivalent of common Jewish names in the west: Gold and Stone.’

And another paste: https://semiticcontroversies.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-travels-of-marco-polo-and-jews-of.html

One of the odd things about 'The Travels of Marco Polo' is that it is one of the first mentions we have of jews being resident in China and more specifically of the jewish community at Kaifeng, which had been the capital of the Song dynasty before it was moved to Hangzhou and then, with the Mongol conquest, to Beijing.

The jewish community in China probably descends from the jewish 'Radhanite' merchants of the silk road; (1) who were incidentally a big part of the early White slave trade (2) as recorded by Ibn-Kordadhbeh among others. (3) The first known synagogue in China was built circa 1163 AD, (4) but it is likely this is just the first place of worship we know about rather than the first one actually built.

It is worth noting that, as early as the ninth century, there were sizable jewish communities in the cities of Beijing, Canton, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Kaifeng and Ningbo. (5) The commonality between these cities is that they are either important port cities (Canton, Guangzhou and Ningbo) or capital cities (Kaifeng [early Song Dynasty], Hangzhou [later Song Dynasty] and Beijing [Yuan Dynasty (the Mongols)]), which suggests that jews were engaging in the infiltration of governmental power structures that has so marked them out historically (6) and was achieved to a significant extent by the time of the Ming Dynasty in the sixteenth century. (7)

So with all of that spoken, it kind of makes you think about the name LEE(and most probably Liu,Lie,Li,Leigh).Considering how many times it has popped up in anglo world, it makes you think that its just a transformation of the name Levi.I might be stretching it at this point but take it as a food for thought.