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Non-drug users tend to be insignificant.
#18811657 - 09/07/13 01:43 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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This is an observation I've had during the 2 weeks I've been in college. I'm not saying that doing drugs makes you somebody, but that "somebodies" tend to dabble in drugs a bit. I don't know why this is - maybe it's because doing drugs is seen as something adventurous, or that it makes life a bit more interesting. The average drug user seems to have a story to tell. They're funny, and they're fun to be around whether they're sober or not. They have more life experience and could hold deep conversations
Non-drug users seem to be the ones in filler roles. They're the ones floating through life doing what they're told. They're perfectly content sitting around an xbox all day and night. They would rather do what they know in their comfort zone than venture out and try something knew. They're less adventurous in most aspects.
Of course there are exceptions, and as I said earlier, it's not the drugs themselves but the people who tend to do them. These are observations I've had during the 2 weeks I've been in college.
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Anonymous #2
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Re: Non-drug users tend to be insignificant. [Re: Anonymous #1]
#18811716 - 09/07/13 02:05 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Acceptance ?:-)
Drugs are not bad in moderation, but daily habit you decide for yourself if it's bad, it can be bad
You need to break free of that afraid to be judged mentality let it all go, fear, pride etc. , be yourself always
drugs can sometimes help us be ourselves, funny enough, since it's an experience
but moderation is key.. don't expect to be yourself from daily use of anything
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Anonymous #3
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Re: Non-drug users tend to be insignificant. [Re: Anonymous #1] 1
#18811724 - 09/07/13 02:09 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Hopefully you'll collect a lot more data points to look at objectively and realize your conclusion is bullshit.
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Anonymous #4
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Re: Non-drug users tend to be insignificant. [Re: Anonymous #1]
#18811763 - 09/07/13 02:19 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Anonymous #1 said: This is an observation I've had during the 2 weeks I've been in college. I'm not saying that doing drugs makes you somebody, but that "somebodies" tend to dabble in drugs a bit. I don't know why this is - maybe it's because doing drugs is seen as something adventurous, or that it makes life a bit more interesting. The average drug user seems to have a story to tell. They're funny, and they're fun to be around whether they're sober or not. They have more life experience and could hold deep conversations
Non-drug users seem to be the ones in filler roles. They're the ones floating through life doing what they're told. They're perfectly content sitting around an xbox all day and night. They would rather do what they know in their comfort zone than venture out and try something knew. They're less adventurous in most aspects.
Of course there are exceptions, and as I said earlier, it's not the drugs themselves but the people who tend to do them. These are observations I've had during the 2 weeks I've been in college.
perhaps you are just dabbling wit the people who do drugs? and not giving the quiet intoverts a chance?
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Re: Non-drug users tend to be insignificant. [Re: Anonymous #1] 1
#18811820 - 09/07/13 02:36 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Anonymous #1 said: These are observations I've had during the 2 weeks I've been in college.
How much are your parents paying for this "education"?
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Re: Non-drug users tend to be insignificant. [Re: Anonymous #3] 1
#18811840 - 09/07/13 02:43 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Sounds like my first trip through college. Now I tend to be more concerned with what I am studying. Drugs gave me social signifigance to certain people until I stopped using. Those friends turned out to be rather flighty, as far as repaying loans and generally giving a shit or comprehending what they were doing. The drugs lower social inhibitions absolutely and that was one of the many changes I experienced after abusing them. Now I realize education, if you choose a good career for yourself, is a path to being happy. Drugs seem to be nothing more than deliberate self-sabotage. Really you don't know who is doing what, and I can't really tell you what is going on, people are individuals, do drugs give people common characteristics?
Edited by Anonymous (09/07/13 02:55 PM)
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Anonymous #2
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Re: Non-drug users tend to be insignificant. [Re: Anonymous #6]
#18811993 - 09/07/13 03:35 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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There is one good path to being happy
Do what you love , what makes you and others happy
with/without drugs, moderation is key if you use drugs don't abuse anything, then you can have fun
but best is without any drugs.... if you are yourself you don't need anything
LSD/MDMA etc. has improved many people's lifes though.. self-improvement, lowering inhibitions might not be bad, if you do it for the love :-)
don't abuse anything
alcohol lowers inhibitions too, but you can still have a fun night out once in a while
no need for total abstinence, unless you feel it must be that way with yourself
nature/meditation/lucid dreaming , and being happy is the best drug , and you don't need anything to do it
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Anonymous #1
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Re: Non-drug users tend to be insignificant. [Re: Anonymous #5]
#18813752 - 09/08/13 01:27 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Anonymous #1 said: These are observations I've had during the 2 weeks I've been in college.
How much are your parents paying for this "education"?
Around 20,000 dollars per year. My GPA is a 4.0 so I don't think I'm letting them down. I'm not an idiot, I'm here to learn and prepare myself for grad school. I have fun when my homework and studies are done, and these are the observations I've had.
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Anonymous #3
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Re: Non-drug users tend to be insignificant. [Re: Anonymous #1] 1
#18813776 - 09/08/13 01:38 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Sounds like you probably have a case of confirmation bias.
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Anonymous #5
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Re: Non-drug users tend to be insignificant. [Re: Anonymous #1]
#18814131 - 09/08/13 06:51 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Anonymous #1 said: This is an observation I've had during the 2 weeks I've been in college.
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Anonymous #1 said: My GPA is a 4.0 so I don't think I'm letting them down.
Your two week GPA is 4.0?
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Anonymous #7
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Re: Non-drug users tend to be insignificant. [Re: Anonymous #5]
#18814244 - 09/08/13 07:53 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Anonymous #1 said: This is an observation I've had during the 2 weeks I've been in college.
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Anonymous #1 said: My GPA is a 4.0 so I don't think I'm letting them down.
Your two week GPA is 4.0? 
lol this. wtf?
and depending on your major things will get much harder as you move on in classes. Of course if your majoring in something like philosophy then this doesn't apply, and a good GPA is expected of any functional human.
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Anonymous #8
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Re: Non-drug users tend to be insignificant. [Re: Anonymous #7]
#18815340 - 09/08/13 01:53 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Sober people are fun, interesting people with ambitions and goals.
Coming from a stoner who dabbles in psychedelics
Btw, every sane human being is perfectly capable of 4.0gpa success in education. In the end, it depends how much effort YOU put into it.
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Anonymous #5
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Re: Non-drug users tend to be insignificant. [Re: Anonymous #8]
#18815402 - 09/08/13 02:11 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Anonymous #8 said: Sober people are fun, interesting people with ambitions and goals.
Coming from a stoner who dabbles in psychedelics
Btw, every sane human being is perfectly capable of 4.0gpa success in education. In the end, it depends how much effort YOU put into it.
Everyone can do Fourier transforms and get an A. Except me.
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Anonymous #8
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Re: Non-drug users tend to be insignificant. [Re: Anonymous #5]
#18815416 - 09/08/13 02:18 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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By changing the sum into an integral, you can get inverse Fourier transforms. Work out flipping it, then work on the actual problems. Baby steps 
Part of development is in unsatisfaction. If you want an A, you have to work on problems every day until you can do it in your sleep.
I spent hours trying and failing dimensional analysis of SIMPLE chemistry in college....now I can set them up in seconds with precise significant figure accuracy.
You gotta potentiate your synapses EVERY DAY! That way you will love studying.
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Re: Non-drug users tend to be insignificant. [Re: Anonymous #7]
#18815441 - 09/08/13 02:26 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Anonymous #7 said:
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Anonymous #1 said: This is an observation I've had during the 2 weeks I've been in college.
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Anonymous #1 said: My GPA is a 4.0 so I don't think I'm letting them down.
Your two week GPA is 4.0? 
lol this. wtf?
and depending on your major things will get much harder as you move on in classes. Of course if your majoring in something like philosophy then this doesn't apply, and a good GPA is expected of any functional human.
What the fuck do you want me to say then? I've aced every quiz and test I've had thus far. Also, I'm a Political Science and Economics double major, so I don't think I have a comparatively easy work load
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Anonymous #5
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Re: Non-drug users tend to be insignificant. [Re: Anonymous #1]
#18815466 - 09/08/13 02:36 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Stop doing drugs and hang out with the asian kids at the library.
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Re: Non-drug users tend to be insignificant. [Re: Anonymous #5]
#18815502 - 09/08/13 02:50 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I do. And I talk to the people who play minecraft all day. I try being nice to the kids who play Magic the Gathering in the lobby all day. It's through all this that I realized these people don't really have an adventurous side, and would rather just do what's safe and comfortable to them
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Anonymous #9
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Re: Non-drug users tend to be insignificant. [Re: Anonymous #1]
#18815535 - 09/08/13 02:57 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Heuristic (/hjʉˈrɪstɨk/; Greek: "Εὑρίσκω", "find" or "discover") refers to experience-based techniques for problem solving, learning, and discovery that give a solution which is not guaranteed to be optimal. Where the exhaustive search is impractical, heuristic methods are used to speed up the process of finding a satisfactory solution via mental shortcuts to ease the cognitive load of making a decision. Examples of this method include using a rule of thumb, an educated guess, an intuitive judgment, stereotyping, or common sense.
In more precise terms, heuristics are strategies using readily accessible, though loosely applicable, information to control problem solving in human beings and machines.[1]
Learned this term in Sociology in undergrad. I was clean and sober and had a lot of fun(until I got to grad school and cut loose lol). People who do drugs often segregate themselves from drug free people as much as the drug free people do them.
You made an observation based on subjective observations, not objective data points.
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Re: Non-drug users tend to be insignificant. [Re: Anonymous #1]
#18816005 - 09/08/13 05:21 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Anonymous #1 said: I do. And I talk to the people who play minecraft all day. I try being nice to the kids who play Magic the Gathering in the lobby all day. It's through all this that I realized these people don't really have an adventurous side, and would rather just do what's safe and comfortable to them
Can't see beyond your own nose.
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Re: Non-drug users tend to be insignificant. [Re: Anonymous #3] 1
#18816128 - 09/08/13 05:54 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I understand where you're coming from, but what you mean is that their experiences are insignificant to you. You'd think that christian kid is lame, boring and awkward, until you get him in a room with his friends from christian camp... You know what those magic players are thinking? 'Damn, that druggie kid is so boring. He thinks he's so cool because he can swallow a pill, but he isn't good at anything else. He ought to try a real hobby like magic, now that's fun.'
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