Recruiting Football Talk VIII

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gainesvol82 said:
It's amazing the things you notice on LSD that you ignore in a normal mindset. It is fascinating to know that ignoring things not critical to survival is an evolutionary trait and I can only imagine your "aha" moment on realizing that your friend was seeing the veins in his retina! That's an impressive connection you made. I have also had similar experiences with intense car rides and feeling the movement of the earth and noticing its curvature and magnetic polarization. Clouds were always fun for me as well but I never had a sense of control over them....I would just notice that the patterns they formed were not nearly as random as I usually assumed.

My main thing was seeing energy waves constantly and how all matter was connected to them. I would experiment with how energy waves from my body would interact with and effect other people's, animals and even certain electricity powered object's energy waves.

I freaked a buddy out once because we noticed a light fixture on my ceiling above us that started acting strange while I was talking. He asked me if I could see the waves flowing back and forth between me and the light fixture. I was shocked that he noticed it like I always did and said "watch this". I then looked up and focused on the lights and said "flicker" and both light bulbs in the fixture did. His already dilated pupils got huge and he said "No way, that didn't happen". My response was "Yes it did" as I looked back up and said "flicker" and both did it again. I did it about a dozen more times and it would react every time but only when I was focusing on it and it never did it without my focus.

He started to freak a little so I told him to relax and asked if he wanted to try it. He agreed so I focused on him and we both could see the energy waves start coming from me to him and then going back and forth between us. I told him to focus on the lights and use the energy to control it, which he did a few times successfully but it was a little much for him to handle so we stopped shortly after. I still can't really explain it but I felt totally in control of my environment on that trip (and many others). He was one of .y few friends who dosed enough to get past the giggles and have more control over his experiences.

My favorite interactions were with animals. Birds, squirrels and other common wild animals would act differently and land beside me or approach very close to me and seemed very interested. They weren't afraid and it was like the animalistic, instinctual part of my being was reaching out to let them know I wasn't a threat and they acted completely comfortable with me and approached closely in a way that never has happened when not tripping.

Cats could really sense it and reacted to it the most but they usually did not seem to like it....I assume it was a threat to their independent predatory instincts and they would behave cautiously submissive toward me and often wanted to stay away from me. Some would react with hostility and then flee even if they were normally friendly and loving toward me under normal circumstances. Dogs usually didn't seem to notice or care as much except for breeds like Huskies and normally wary strays would immediately go belly up for no reason with just a look when they avoided me at "normal" times.

I think that most modern humans have lost our understanding of how much animals sense intentions and dominance just by the energy we give off by body language, the way our muscles are tensed or relaxed and how we look at and initiate eye contact with them.

It's a strange and beautiful world/universe that we live in and our primitive ancestors understood that in ways we have mostly lost. I'm not surprised that we are starting to realize that humans were capable of amazing things thousands of years ago that we assumed weren't possible until recently. Fascinating stuff and great talk!
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Fascinating. I have read a bit about psilocybin, but know next to nothing about other psychedelics. For reference, in the spectrum of shroom doses (ranging from a micro dose to full ego dissolution), where are you seeing things like this?
 
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Weezer said:
At this point, I'd rather not play in the SEC CG. I'm no longer convinced the committee takes a 3-loss CG runner-up. Why chance it?
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If the 3 loss team is Tennessee, no way would the committee put us in.
If Texas beats uga, they will both still make it.

I am fine with an at large bid. I still want some more losses. longhorns getting shellacked by A&M, GT beating uga. michigan over osu, Maryland beating psu,
This would be unlikely but awesome.
Oh and the trojans beating notre dame would be lovely. 😈
 
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WesTnVol said:
I think you’re probably correct. If my numbers are right,
UGA is in waiting on Texas -A&M winner
If Texas wins next Saturday they’re in SECC @11-1 say Texas loses to UGA they’re at 11-2 and in CFP seeding ?? Above UT or below??
If A&M wins they’re in @ 9-3 say they lose 9-4 would a four lost team make the CFP? I don’t think so.
I think A&M has to win Saturday and the SECC to be in the CFP and give the SEC 4 teams other than that it’s 3 imho🍊👊🏻
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I agree. I think Vols would jump Texas if they're 10-2. Probably our best chance at being a host is if Texas loses to A&M or loses to UGA in the SEC championship.
 
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Jackcrevol said:
So kicking the **** out of toothless programs is worthwhile in the new era?
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Yes, they're clearly over-anchoring to win loss record despite wildly different strength of schedules. I'll be interested to see where they put Indiana but they've played 1 good team all year and got smashed. Not sure how that's playoff worthy. They're probably a 4 or 5 loss team in the SEC.

The other crazy thing is the conferences are so big we're getting huge disparities in strength of schedule within the same conference. Compare Texas' schedule to UGA or Florida's. Just night and day. Ohio State had to play Oregon, Penn State, and Indiana while Oregon, Penn State, and Indiana all avoided playing each other.

The committees early rankings make it clear they value win loss record heavily and strength of schedule is more of a tie breaker. At best, they'll allow a team to have 1 more loss due to having a tough strength of schedule. I think there are 30 teams in CFB that could go 10-1 against Indiana's schedule but it seems likely they'll get in for having played it.
 
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If you Rewatch the UTEP game. . . watch John Campbell. He absolutely murdered their DL. He was throwing them around like a rag doll. The 10-15yd Sampson run that went to about the 10yd line. . . Campbell pulled and just obliterated the defender, 😂.
 
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