Entry 3 - Alchohol Insanity

[sgoodspeed]

My roomate comes home today, as it is St. Patrick's Day, in a drunken state of which one can hardly describe. I saw him coming home, as we live 14 floors up, and in the two seconds I was watching him, he fell over five times into the snow. I ran downstairs, across the street, and down the path, to basically drag him home, while deflecting two

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[srcosmo]

Mr. G,
    I think (except for the carbonated beverages part) that I am in a similar situation to you regarding the use of substances.
Genetically, I think that people need to escape real life for a while, and that alcohol/drugs are a more complete immersion, than, say, going to the movies. (although with some of the wild junk that the studios have been releasing lately, that could all change)
  I think also that societal (rather than peer) pressure plays the next largest role. Most people probably aren't goaded into drinking by their friends, but I'm sure we've all seen booze and/or drugs on TV, or being used by others, since an early age. I guess if everyone was raised in a substance-less environment from birth, they'd probably have less of a desire for 'em.

Anyway, in general, the idea of being intoxicated/etc. does not really interest me. (as you mentioned, there are all kinds of things I could be doing, like working on the latest Cmdr. Resonant Frequency album)
just my crummy thoughts.
Er, anyone else?

Commercial Addiction

[sgoodspeed]

Did you know that the two original investors in Much Music were Sobeys, and Molson Canadian. Looks like the corporations score another BIG 10 points.

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Re: Commercial Addiction

[monkey_funkel]

?

SO? lol

Re: Commercial Addiction

[sgoodspeed]

I do apologise... I should have qouted srcosmo's previous comment.

"but I'm sure we've all seen booze and/or drugs on TV"
- srcosmo

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[jigsaw666]

I was going to save my throughts until tommorow, but here i am awake

[monkey_funkel]

I'm going to side with you on this mega.

*thumbs up*

Not because I ever drink a heck of a lot, but because I do on occasion with people, and I seem to have a good time. You points seen to make a tonne of sense. Mostly the 'loss of social anxiety' part. It's true. I have the problem as well. Not so much anymore. But in Montreal, Soph and I went out one night and proceeded to become intoxicated together, and I was able to ask her certain things and say things that I would not normally have asked. Now, when I'm not intoxicated, I can ask even bigger and better things. Express other things. I just had to get started. That's where I will give alcohol 1 point.

alcohol 1
other 0

I'm not feeling the other shite. But yeah. ...what I ment was, I agree

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[jigsaw666]

Good stuff man thanks for the back up :)

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[monkey_funkel]

I got yo back when you need it maing.

[zeegs]

Ok I'll start off by saying that like Steve here I don't drink or do drugs. I know a shitload of people do and I know that it's a choice that everyone makes. For me I have my reasons for not wanting to drink, family reasons for one thing, and the main reason it just simple does not appeal to me. I'm not saying that I will never drink, I know that there is not much harm in a social drink, but thats it. In my experience I've never been asked "hey, wanna got out and have a little social drink?" For some reason it's "hey, buddy! you wanna get trashed?" Thats what I don't get. Has being a social person been really been reduced to getting drunk out of your mind, losing control over yourself, puking all over the place, and having no good recolection of what happened the next day? And people find it all great and funny, a good story. The other night someone was drunk and decided to smash a $300 chair through a steel wire reinforced window ($1000+)next to a stairway while they were sitting on the chair. It's a wreckless disregard for

Mental Miscalculations

[sgoodspeed]

To me, it sounds like the typical formula for mental disaster. If you don't deal with your emotions/thoughts/and feelings from a traumatic event, they will become repressed, only to continuously bother you in the future. I think the same thing goes for alcohol, where you might use it as an escape. But that doesn't mean you problems go away

Re: Mental Miscalculations

[sgoodspeed]

I forgot to add that the 'calcium' equation goes for BONE absorbtion as well. IE: Milk gives you stronger teeth. Not exactly.

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Re: Mental Miscalculations

[monkey_funkel]

People tend to take the pills as a quick fix. It's tough to function WITH the headache sometimes, so they'll pop an aspirin (which has been proven to prevent heart disease I believe). This will relieve the headache and they can move on with there busy lives. They might not have time to sit and plan out an extensive meal plan that includes all the essentials

[jigsaw666]

I think you all have good reasons, but the bottom line is that sobriety isn't a choice - it's a defualt. It's what happens when you don't choose to do anything at all. Some people are idiots and abuse drugs, but some people are smart. Some people have guts and are smart, and it's these people that make the choice to understand who they are. You can't explain something without something to compare it too, that's an easily illustrated logical parable. So how can you know what sobriety is like with nothing to compare it too?

PS this is a semi-rhetorical question, i do intend an answer to those who choose to reply, but i'm not suggesting it as a be all, end all reason to use drugs, only a logical illustration.

PPS You've all used physcoactive drugs before.

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[jigsaw666]

But alcohol and drugs aren't constantly attempting to gain access to your body - you have to make conscious decisions to use them.