Have you trance journeyed like a shaman? Carl Jung had a shaman trance journey from one room into the next room and describe what was on the table. You should try that. Of course you need someone to setup something for you to see in the room (that you wouldn't know was there).

I have not yet reached that level. I am currently in talks with someone in an attempt to obtain some DMT and see where it takes me. I actually don't think I really meant to be a Healer. I think I'm just meant to share the wisdom I obtain.

LOL dmt, that's like from our trees here right?
Thought about getting some.

I should let you know though, apparently it's similar to, but more intense than salvia.

I suggested salvia because...it puts you in a state of pure joy and introspection...ego nigh-death occurs. You lose all associations with language, and the state of your being just dissipates, then reassembles refreshed and renewed almost immediately, it's just like you wake up and feel like you've had a mental defrag.

Seems to me like you could go with a low level extract (I had 20x at first) to get where you're trying to go.

The people you've seen online are often on 80x extracts etc, some even 100x extracts and more...I don't even know why you'd ever want one that strong at all...and I would imagine for anything other than serious, experienced users doing this, would be pretty knocked around.
What you're seeing (and I've seen it too...it's occasionally funny but to be honest it's a step backwards in perception of salvia) is irresponsible use.
I wouldn't be too worried.
Each to their own though, eh?

Good luck with it. I'm largely past all this stuff but will throw into the convo when there's something of use to say.

DMT is in every living thing, even us. It is believed to be located in the area where the third eye is metaphorically placed. Some say the bright light people claim to see before they die is the DMT becoming active which is meant to remove your soul from your body. I have smoke DMT before but I didn't do it correctly and I only got the conscious trip. I imagined Salvia put you out kind of like mushrooms. The videos I have seen of people on salvia though go into some kind of seizure or start doing something which usually prompts them to need a sitter with them in case they try to do something crazy like jump out a window, which apparently has happened on salvia to someone. The mushrooms made me do a Linda Blair mini freak out of sorts apparently because I broke my coffee table and had a bunch of scratches and bumps all over me. That was mostly my fault though for being the dumbass that did it on the couch instead of on my bed.

I seem to have a very high tolerance when it comes to psychedelic drugs. I've done a lot in my life so that's probably why. I'm not going to discount the possibility of trying Salvia if I ever get the opportunity, but it's not something I'm just out looking for.


Cheebs, if you or anyone else in here for that matter ever try something like DMT, Ayahuasca or mushrooms or really any kind of psychedelic that puts you in an unconscious State, be sure to do all of your research and be in a very comfortable mindset because the first time you do it, you are going to think you are dying unless you know for a fact in your mind that you aren't in the only way you can do that is by research and giving yourself the assurance that you are okay and that you need to just submit to the drug and let it do what it wants to do.

So newb was banned
Thank god for that
Was a dinosaur
An somewhat of a brat

He tried to recapture
A time long gone
He didn’t realize
The Forum was a yawn

Not to disparage
The current members present
You all seem like cool peeps
He just needed to vent

We can’t go back
And he holds no grudge
He was very accepting
Of his Aussie Judge

There’s always facebook
Where he pops in now and then
Says hello to past members
Margie, Rodd and Bren

Newb was a time long ago
A time that has come to pass
So I’ll also join him and say
“zwoti....feel free to ban my ass.”

I am so lost and confused. Who is this newb guy and what did he do? I mean I know he was here long before I was obviously but I am still totally lost and oblivious.

This place totally used to be jumpin' back in the day. Probably one of the first ones too. A lot of original posters have a hard time seeing it like this. Newb didnt do anything, lol. Great guy by all accounts.

newb's hardly on Facebook anymore, either. Really miss that guy.

I wish I knew about this place back then. Everywhere else I go has their own clicks and will be so quick to turn against you if they don't like you. This has been about the only place I haven't been judged by others for not going along with everyone and developing my own opinions. Despite what some people might think, I never really was a bad guy, just misunderstood.

We had that going on too...but it was more like the majority of that crowd was kind've more mature, and really an amazing bunch of people that were just here to shoot the shit about anything and everything horror related or otherwise - Like a big family...but yes, there were quite a few pop up cases of people that stirred shit...and there was always more than enough people to slap them down for it.
I don't believe anyone got ganged up on or bullied or anything like that though, it was more just a chorus of "cut the shit".
Most settled of course, some didn't.

But yeah, it was vibrant...it was literally buzzing nearly at all times...you'd come in and see 10-15 new topics every other day, and like 20+ new posts in most ongoing threads. I don't know what the difference was...people moved on I guess...and lost interest when things kept fucking up here.
You "regular" posters in here now would have fit in really well back then.

I don't know if newb actually wanted to be legitimately banned or not.
In hindsight it's a decision I should have spent some more time to ponder... Though, I'd assumed the request legit and not too problematic for him to "come back" anyways.
I guess, I was disappointed because when I see someone, or a few people return for an appearance here and there, every time, every single time I hope it's to stay and maybe bring back a bit of what kept us all here in the first place.

So maybe I just went on "fuck it" mode, took the request with something of a heavy heart, because I don't know...I see no way of fixing this forum at all, and now we have no way of new members signing up at all...and now, it's just another step further away from where it was.


Back to random shit I guess

Went into the gym today and saw my PT.
He actually wants me to aim to train less than I'd intended to, to kind of work up my attendance. I get that, to a point.
He's writing my up a new programme to follow as well, and we're going to go every 2 months to get a check up and adjust programme.

I loved doing the 100 years of horror compilation. that was a blast!

You doing PT... coming back from an injury?

I was probably a member of Bloody Disgusting longer than anywhere and made a lot of friends there and even met the filmmaker Lucifer Valentine through the message board. There are admins there who abused their power though and as everyone knows, in places like these which are usually full of perverted nerdy guys oh, it doesn't take very much influence from women to sway people in whatever Direction they want them to. I honestly hated that kind of shit because I have always been the type of person who won't just sit there saying thank you sir may I have another because I'm not two-dimensional like that. I am narcissistic, yes, but not in the kind of way someone sadistic who uses other people's suffering to improve their self-esteem and Public Image. It's an uncontrollable ego trip which open the floodgates to a superiority complex. It's okay to believe in yourself and freely speak your mind, that is the kind of narcissism that actually attracts people, or one of the main qualities of the alpha male for a lack of a better term, but when people are so full of themselves and are able to easily manipulate people and feed off of their emotions like vampires which makes them stronger individually and socially. Narcissistic nihilists quite frankly scared the hell out of me.

Anyway, yeah, ain't nobody got time for that...

I remember seeing it, never took part personally but yeah...was huge.

No, just a personal trainer appointment/session.
I'm not coming back from an injury, just coming back.

Ah yes the glory days of old. I don’t visit as often as I should but every time I think of this place all my memories are happy. I think one of the ones that sticks out most to me was “the package” fiasco which I was a part of, even though I hate to admit it.

And the other was one particular member who thought we were all out to get him and even went to different message boards telling people that.

But all in all I think social media paired with the sites owner just not caring about the place would be the biggest reason this place is where it is today. I can say proudly I spent many nights and days here giving and receiving some fantastic recommendations for horror movies. I just hope the site continues to endure for many more years to come.

Was that "The Return" by any chance? Had like an penguin avatar?


Well, I'm here. You're here. Margarine is here. The "new crew" of regular posters is here and for the better part they're actually alright.
We're just...smaller.

Lol, i remember an outstanding time for me even though I've only been here for a few years. When Michael Myers went on his search for the Wendigo. Loved it.

We just need to face the fact that social media has killed the message boards. It's only the True Grit like us who still use them. At least it separates us from others and shows our commitment to the genre and our fandom.

Excellent poem, newb! Good to have multiple accounts. By the last two lines, I guess there's still plenty more. ::big grin::
Oh yeah, great discussions and debate. I still remember Neverending went off on the suggestion of King Kong 76 for the 70s, how it was an insult to the 33' version, and The Villain or someone was like, 'this is a 70s comparison, and 76' was pretty good'. ::big grin:: The discussions are probably better reading than the compilation.

Oh, PT, personal trainer, I thought it was physical therapy.

Tell us a little about 'the package', sounds hilarious.

Oh ya, I remember that. Dude was camping out in the woods in the winter snow, and had some encounters with a creature; I think he even said he shot at it in the dark of night. ::devil::

I NO NOT OF WHAT YOU SPEAK
THESE WORDS TO ME A MYSTERY
I'M MARLEY'S GHOST AS YOU CAN SEE
AND NEWB I GUESS IS HISTORY

It's funny, I'd have figured you were here then...it's actually pretty amazing how many years this place has been around.

It was basically a package of random items. DVDs, some movie/tv related stuff, some little toys, collectables and posters etc.
The idea, if I recall correctly was to take out an item or two, put in an item or two, so this package would be sent between members and people would kind of get stuff, give stuff.
I live in Australia and I don't think it ever made its was over/near here.
Not entirely sure where/why the wheels came off...it was successful for a little bit, and then there were delays in sending, and I guess eventually someone just said "fuck it".

It was a decent idea.

No the guy I’m thinking of was named Festus or something like that. I remember The Return but don’t recall anything like that happening with him. Could be wrong though.

Yes I believe Gore delayed it for a time then I too also delayed it for some time. I did send but don’t remember to who and I don’t remember who had it last.

I remember that name, or something similar...not sure bout the incident though, but with me, I dunno, if I wasn't involved it's like remembering an advertisement I drove by a while ago.

So I got my gym programme today.
Seems easy enough. Time to adhere.

Yeah, I never received it

Has anyone seen that new Snickers commercial with Elton John? Is it just me or is that totally homophobic? I mean the message they are giving off is when a rapper gets hungry he becomes Elton John singing "don't go breaking my heart" and his friend next to him tells him to eat a Snickers because he gets weird when he's hungry. So the rapper eats the Snickers and then starts rapping about women. To me that is more or less telling the guy he acts gay when he is hungry and they are saying it in a negative way as if it is an insult. Maybe I am just overthinking it but I'm surprised with all the shit going on over at Gillette commercial, no one else has seemed to notice this about the Snickers commercial. I assume Elton John had no problem with it but still...

So it would be a box of horror film related stuff that HDC members would mail to each other, take something and add something. That is a nifty idea.

So I get the package concept. What was fiasco, just someone not sending it along, or some interesting things in the box? ::big grin::

Cool, you doing the morning or 'after work' program? From experience, if you can really notch it into a schedule you don't give yourself an option, then it works well.

Like I took my walking shoes, and clothes/coat, to work with me, and went straight from work to walk. If I stopped at home first... there would be problems...

Yes! That was exactly my impression as well. Not sure what Elton's take on the commercial was... I assumed he was cool with kidding around with it.

Just looked at the Gillette commercial. I don't get why anyone would have a problem with it. Stop a fight, or bullying attack, or sexual harassment attack, that's what a good men would do, nothing strange about that. I just assume some agent provocateurs will use it to get some media exposure.

There was one part that was odd, or poorly shot... where a chic in tight clothes walks by on the sidewalk and a dude started to walk off to go talk to her, and another dude blocks him and says, "Bro, not cool, not cool". I don't know why it would be wrong to meet a lady on the sidewalk... I assume the writer or director meant to show a guy, stopping another guy harassing a lady on the street, but they didn't get to that... such as showing the guy catcall obscenities, or go up to her ask something obscene, or brab at her. Too bad they screwed up that part... unless I'm missing something?

Never thought it was a gay thing at all. Just that their music styles are so different and the rapper is not acting like himself. The gillette commercial...i coundnt figure out what the heck they were talking about.

LOL. Too easy.

Just failure to adhere for one reason or another.
You ask me, unless you had the necessary funds to ship it back out, or a kind of group fund was established and completed to get it in or out of your area...no dice...it would, sadly, need to be one of those "can you afford this?" questions, and well...nobody wants to have to ask that.

I gather that was the idea yeah, though not even exclusively horror related stuff.
Liked the idea.
Damn, the amount of random shit I have in my place...would love to have contributed, but it never came this way. (I guess if ever it starts up again...)

I think...when you leave things with humans and it's not obligatory...they let things slide. Of course, I guess whoever "just kept it" in the end was who really let the team down. ::sad::

I guess the only thing we could do is establish an HDC buy/trade page.
That's on you guys if you wanna - I don't set things up.
"I'll allow it". ::big grin::



So on the gilette commercial thing, I don't find the ad in poor taste at all...though really the one I saw was bloody waaaay too long - is this one they show at the cinema before a film or something?
I get what they're trying to do, and look, it's a message all "men" shouldn't really need public reminders of...yknow...act like people.
I think the main issue some people may take is that it's kind of "jumping on board the bandwagon" (a little late) but it's kind of coming across as a bit of a transparent marketing move?
Good that they're reflecting a positive attitude and, if it's still ok to say, being a gentleman though...but yeah...this is what I see as the issue some people are taking with it.
Me? Don't give a shit personally.


Not working right now, just enjoying the kids last year of no school - I manage financially ;)
Though I do prefer to go in the morning.
While I was working, I went prior to work at about 6:30am.
Now?
I wake up sometime between 8-9, have some tea and food, shake myself awake some and head to the gym shortly after that.
I think for me? Psychologically, I don't like "waiting", I don't like "looking forward to it" like literally the lazy part of me gets stronger sway throughout the day...so if I want to adhere? Yes. It's one of the first things I do in the day.
You tend to feel better and more awake too for the rest of the day - this was always a problem when I went at night, because I'd be so wired I wouldn't be able to sleep for hours.

There's a lot of shit people make a big deal out of and I don't understand why. I don't understand the whole Nike thing. I do however feel like the Snickers thing was a bit derogatory though. There was this very bizarre holiday commercial for a local Furniture Company here in Vegas that only aired for about a week. In the commercial the guy who owns the store was wishing a merry Christmas to all these different races and then this Asian guy, among a bunch of other people who I guess we're employees were standing there and he looks over at the bus and smiles and the boss says nobody likes those people. Then at the very end it showed some other guy all together walking away and the boss said his name and wait. It's like it was an outtake added to the end of the commercial but apparently that remark must have pissed someone off or they tried to make it look that way anyway. Considering it only lasted for about a week though I'm sure someone took issue with it.

Yeah, I would wonder about the cost of mailing a box to Australia... have no idea what it would cost, but that might make me pause. But it's a one time deal, I think I wouldn't sneeze at something at or below $20 US dollars.

That's cool you go in the morning. That is a great way to start the day, boost that awakeness and energy all day. I would have to adjust going to a gym at 5AM or whatever before work. But it is cool to workout, take a shower and start your day.

Link the Snicker commercial. I don't know that one.

LOL Ya, you're probably right. Maybe that's because your mind is in the right place, and mine is not. I'm sure you're right, that was the intention, but there was extra issues that both I and Morn picked up. Actually, I think I saw it on youtube, and turned to a buddy and he thought what I thought. The extra things, that Morn pointed out, Elton is gay, and the rapper, after eating the candybar, started rapping a 'get the lady rap'. I mean, call my mind in the wrong place and all, but the creator of the commercial has to see the big picture.

Holy shit... I know I shouldn't be laughing at these but oh my god. When I was looking for that furniture store commercial that came across these two.

I really dont think Elton John would participate in gay bashing of any type. Unless he thought it was funny and harmless. You mentioned not understanding why one guy stopped another guy from following a girl with tight clothes. I think they are trying to say just because a girl dresses like that doesn't mean she's asking for it.

I won't start a thread unless any interest is expressed but that package thing got me thinking. Why don't we do an online one. I could take a pic of some random thing in my house, maybe explain a little bit and post it. Than someone else can do one. Doesnt have to be horror related. Something you are proud of, something you use everyday, a pet etc etc. Anyone?

I think that's what they were trying to say too, considering the context. She could be dressed like that for a lot of reasons, including a hope a that a fellow introduces himself to her on the sidewalk, or wherever she was going. I just think they messed up that spot.

If you post a pet I like, can you mail it to me?

::shocked::