3. TIL for several years the CIA paid sex workers to bring men back to a “safehou...

TIL for several years the CIA paid sex workers to bring men back to a “safehouse” brothel so they could secretly dose them with LSD and watch what happened through a two-way mirror in an effort to find a mind control drug.

its all the same day, its all one story, and lo, [REDACTED] spoke to the deaf and was rebuked. but its just a memetic unit of creatia, how does it continue propagating through reality? as simple as remembering. the black seas ebb and flow and crash as they always have. people can feel it on the edge of their worlds. so they see our edges as stories? no, they know the world as stories. they feel the truth and they know it. they dance as we dance, walk as we walk, and so we dance as they dance. we walk as they walk. they know the truth- some of them at least. they actively control us? how can that be? they arent real. nothing is real or unreal for long. how do you mean? the dream and the dreamer are not separate. the monk is both the man and the butterfly. that sounds untrue. nothing /is/ truth. nothing is all there is after every question. its all the same day, man.

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