Paradox's paradoxes-The Ravings of an Alchemist

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Mixing wisdom from a few geniuses

Just some pearls of wisdom from the great ones:

@tacitus

Well, yeah… the tricky word there is the verb “to conclude”… years of experience have made it easy for me to doing a quick general categorization… although I wouldn’t say that those are eternal conclusions… sometimes a pheromone has a strong influence on group dynamics and a moderate influence on the wearer, sometimes the effects are subtle and ramp up over hours, other times they are immediate… I think also there is the interplay of one’s age bracket, the environments or contexts of one’s day to day life, what social roles one is required to play, seasonal influences like outside temperature and humidity… associating with ovulating party girls overtly looking for fun and sex (and covertly looking for marriagable men, DNA donors, or stable economic figurers) may generate a massively different response profile from an auditorium filled with elderly folk attending a lecture on J.D. Rockefeller… are there other intoxicants present or not ? What are the social expectations of the group ? What are the social skill levels of the group, sophisticated people who know their limits and can deal with intoxicants, or socially juvenile kids who have left home for the first time and haven’t built in good self monitoring skills yet ? Married women may feel strong urges yet have deep ethical senses of how much they want to act on. Some women get buyer’s remorse BEFORE they do anything. Any time they become sexually attracted they see a movie of themselves feeling abandoned and miserable the following morning… or hear voices about what despicable sluts they are… given that range of possible confounding response, I try to maintain a more or less stable personal set of discovery rituals that give me a baseline, or an outline of what might be possible. If an effect is striking and immediate, as it was with P91, it WILL jump out of the mental files as being of particualr interest.

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@MHarris

The brain really has a huge bag of tricks, and sometimes when you combine two pheromones together, you run into a border of one of these tricks. Until we know what these tricks are, mixes of 2 or more pheromones will indeed be unpredictable. I’m constantly amazed at some of the unexpected results that occur in a simple mix. Pheromone mixing is rarely like cooking – you often can’t get something good just by adding a “dash of this” and a “dash of that”, without significant prior experience to draw upon. From what I’ve seen of his approach, Emeril would be a terrible pheromonal chef.

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@Dancing_Joker

I like to view symphonic mixes of multiple pheromones as an orchestra. Each instrument has its own unique signature and effect, and when you start combining different instruments together, you get distinctly altered and enhanced results. Instead of just a piano, imagine adding a violin and a flute playing at the same time. The music produced takes on a much deeper, more vibrant mix that’s unique and beyond the capabilities of the original instruments alone. Now also imagine throwing in a song or a musical score to play, and you move from basic music to an adventure of the senses

Some pheromones don’t show their effects by themselves, but rather when they are mixed with other pheromones do they reveal their true nature. That’s why it’s necessary sometimes to test them together with other pheromones that you are already familiar with the effects of. A lot of mix testing is hit and miss, but occasionally, you come across a few mixes that are outstanding, and many more mixes that, given many iterations of tweaking, become finely tuned instruments that work flawlessly each time