The examined life is worth living
I dunno man. I am sane & I don't lie. Is something bullshit because it doesn't rhyme with your unchallenged adolescent philosophy?

My adolescent agnosticism lasted until I was 40, until I had continual proof of more than what I initially believed. You have a good 15 years to go before your credo gets threatened.

I never thought I would smoke, I smoke. People change. And when people change they experience life differently. You just might stay in a youthful form & not attempt to open the doors of perception to allow mysticism in. If that happens, you will live in your world, I in mine. Two very different realities, connected by portals such as this. Portals such as this would be valuable opportunities to breach the distance two people are separated by the philosophy & manner they live which allows different but parallel life spectrums to touch.

I know what I know to be true, I also have an understanding that your value system hasn't been tested so you remain in your teen world, & I know that existence to be true too; you however have no concept that there are many different realities, subsets of a varied life experience, & hold true to your own limited mock life.

On Valentines Day I ate dinner with the cousin of the last Shah of Iran. I carried on about the latest trip to the mental hospital depreciating & what brought me in this time. I kept using the word mental patient, & crazy, & not expecting to be believed, but this former Princess & her entourage fully believed & accepted my stories as verbatim & shot back with understanding vignettes describing the myriad of the "examined life".

Then I took it up a notch & included the full spectrum of the bizarre. They too then were up to speed with me. The whole ring of people around the largest table in this posh restaurant made me feel that I was normal - & it was true, I was normal, I just had never unanimous validation before. One of them was a scientist though.

I guess the reason why they used to say in the 1960's don't trust anyone over 30, was because something happens to people when they age, we get separated from the youth of today, like you, experiencing all the things that mysticism relates & is addressed, the things that go ignored in school for kids, because how would that be, for there to be no surprise in life? That life to be the same all the way through? My earnest & righteous gattling gun of spew of human carnage of heartfelt admissions of something out there, continuously muzzled by the likes of a perfect young gentleman seemingly completely reputable... a kid in the back of the class interrupting the teacher & expecting a good grade because he is right.

Well kiddo, it is not about being right. I respect you to a fault, because how am I to respect you if you do not respect age, wisdom & balls? I have experienced everything because I had the balls to chase the most unobtainable woman to put me on a path where I had to face myself. Alone. If my constant truisms, & chiming philosophy cannot ring a bell in your coiffed head, then my friend you are no more than a finger pointer book burner. There is no one right way, there is no way, friend.

It would however be a shame if you were not tested like I was, but as I have said before, something which you probably disagreed with, the best philosophy is pure idealism of children. Everything else corrupts the mind, it is fair to see, that although I make perfect sense, I have been fucked with, & you are more sane, because you have not been forced to be faced with the insanities of life. Kudos for you. You are sane. I understand insanity though. Insanity is nothing to fear, especially for the sane, I have paved the way for you. You probably have a photographic memory just like me, that is why we stand toe to toe on this forum, so when your third eye opens & you see auras, or if some spirits contact you in some state of self imposed boredom delirium, you will be prepared to run over the hot coals on fire to be a sane holy man, maybe the first, but only because I had the wherewithall to introduce you to the supernal, whilst you flung dung at me denouncing even the Religions that back up what I say.