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Ziggyz0m266 karma

You should as your doctor about testosterone therapy, if you are interested. Many older men and men with low testosterone use the therapy to keep a mature, manly appearance or to help build muscle. Many women who want to be men also use the therapy to develop deeper voices. I wish you strength in your life, many people will unfortunately be very judgmental of you.

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Wow that's pretty intense. I've only done psychs once, and that was ayahuasca, as a self discovery "journey". It had a similar impact for me as well.

The first 3/4 of the trip were realizations of how much stress was simply self-induced torture with no substance, mainly due to the feeling of your mind and body having a degree of separation. It felt like I was remote controlling my body, if that makes sense. Along with that came the lesson of everyone is just a consciousness in control of a body. Only people's actions make people special. The rest of that time was seeing extra degrees of wonder/beauty in nature and colors.

The last 1/4 was a deep dive into remembering a WW2 documentary that I'd watched the day before and imagining what was worth risking death for. Eventually, the idea of "we are all guaranteed to die, we're not guaranteed to truly live" sunk in.

All together that essentially broke away the employee-boss nervousness that I'd had before, where I'd have that same "boss on a pedestal" perception of employers. Since then, I've been much more successful in negotiating pay, ensuring my work/life balance needs are met, and not overpriotizing work to the detriment of my important relationships with family/others.

I always imagined mushrooms as super mild/much less than ayahuasca experience, but it sounds like it's a pretty powerful tool for the mind.

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Tokyo Rose (alternative spelling Tokio Rose) was a generic name given by Allied troops in the South Pacific during World War II to what they believed were multiple English-speaking female broadcasters of Japanese propaganda. However, Iva Toguri is the most famously linked name behind the Tokyo Rose. She was a native to Los Angeles and was stranded in Japan because she was visiting her family when the war broke out. The intent of these broadcasts was to disrupt the morale of Allied forces listening to the broadcast

True story: US troops intentionally tuned in because the music played was actually really good music, and the put downs were things like "bone headed boys in the Pacific", which the troops actually thought of as being hilarious :P

tl;dr She (several people actually) were convicted of minor treason for being radio trolls