What is the longest time you talked about one subject with someone?

Also it would be cool if you could write what the subject was and how long you talked about it with someone.

 

I remember dropping acid once and going on a 5 to 6 hour tangent about how much I hated salt. I just wouldn't stop because after awhile I had everyone laughing and I'd turn any other conversation into a 6 degrees of seperation about salt. I don't think I could ever do that again.

 

That's awesome. Is is a true story or should I take it with a grain of salt?

 

7.83 hours.

 

don't even get me started.

 

Wait!


What were we talking about?

 

Very believable. Acid convo's can last for hours and be quite entertaining. A friend of mine had one with a doorknob for 4 hours.

 

I know of firsthand experience that it can last a long time. I once tripped with this one guy who thought I was the devil and some other guy was god and he went on about it for hours. Might have to do with the fact that I was wearing red horns and the other guy wore a white Roman cloth. Don't ask.

But also without drugs it is possible to have lengthy conversations about one subject.

 

without drugs... Me and a friend rented The Stand to watch in a marathon running beginning to end and it was a made for TV series broken into 4 2 hour parts.

We talked about the implications of a world wide plague killing 99% of the population and what WE would do in that situation should we be survivors the whole time we watched it.

 

this wasnt exactly talking about something.. but i did play a game of WAR.. (you know.. the card game).. for 6 hours.. we were trippin on shrooms, and it was funny as hell.. we took breaks in between.. but stilll thats a long ass card game.. lol.. sorry.. am i off topic..

 

You are forgiven for being slightly off topic. I have been known for playing long card game sessions myself, I think around 16 hours straight is the longest, when we held a shithead marathon in Goa.

 

haha... damn.. that beats my record... lol

 

For 5 years we talked about the O j Simpson trial on the old court tv message boards


Hotwater

 

What is Goa like?

 

I used to have 11-hours long conversations with my friend Matt in college. They were essentially about our philosophical perspectives...platonism (him) vs. aristotelianism (me).

Eventually, I had to call a halt to that conversation. I told him we had established our differences and that we should move beyond them lest our friendship should suffer due to circular bickering. Every other conversation was being steered back into that one. We could start off with whether eggs should be poached or soft boiled, and it would lead back to Plato.

So, whenever that happens nowadays, I stop arguing. But those conversations were totally instrumental in articulating thoughts in my mind which continue to define me to this day.

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Edit: That was 15 years ago! I was 21!

 

I like Goa. Was it during the rainy season..

Longest conversation of mine on one topic...? I can thing of one person I sometimes say "I cant be long, I'd need to be up at 7am". Then at 4am, ie 5 hrs later we're still talking on the same topic... with much of it still remaining hehe

 

I loved it. From the beaches to the little inland towns there is a pretty relaxed vibe, unlike many other parts of India.
There are many laid-back and hippie kind of beaches, lots of crafts and music. But sadly it's becoming overly touristy now, one place I visited turned from a small beachlike paradise into a mass tourism trap in less than 5 years. Can't blame the locals for trying to cash in on it, but down all that it still breathes an air of positivity, relaxed atmosphere and love for life.

 

I very much recognise that. I still have those kind of philosophical conversations every now and then and it's not uncommon to go on for about 8 hours on the same subject. Major difference is that Plato has been replaced with Kant and to a lesser extend Hegel, Spinoza and Schopenhauer.

 

I 1st went in the 90s. Even then, people said how "touristy" it had become.
Doubtless the same was said about it in the 60s hippy era.

Yes alot of it is corporate hotels and all that. I've got friends who've lived their whole life in Goa. One thing I've found there is that its big enough for u to find little niches all the time.

 

Very true, when I was there I usually rented a motorbike at some point and just rode around. Always 'discovered' some nice little gems. It's definately one of those places I will go back to.