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Re: Doing drugs makes you miss out on life experiences [Re: Bitter Cactus]
    #19197969 - 11/27/13 07:26 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Whatever you do do there's billions of other things you could be doing and aren't. If you're hiking in the Andes you're not at a World Series game. If you're at a World Series game you're not fucking a hooker in Thailand. If you're fucking a hooker in Thailand you're not in a NYC library reading Tolstoy. But you can do all that shit stoned.


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[quote]Asante said:
You constantly make posts thatr fling middle school insults at people you don't like mixed in with maladjusted psychopathic comments about wanting to beat up the other poster with a crowbar.

You know how shit you are, you just don't give a fuck for precisely that reason.

I disendorse you.[/quote]


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Re: Doing drugs makes you miss out on life experiences [Re: NotTheDevil] * 2
    #19198051 - 11/27/13 07:50 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

yeah...i definitely get what the op is saying and can relate.

i don't agree with the way you've framed the question, though.  how can any experience not be a life experience?  i don't say this to nitpick semantics, nor to project a view onto you that you likely don't hold - but your language reminds me of the all-too-common assumption in our culture that drug induced experiences are by definition not "real" and therefore are inferior to experiences not induced by drugs.

this is, of course, ridiculous!  drug experiences are as real as any other experience (i.e. not particularly real), as evidenced by their apparent reality to any person having them.

i've seen many people - including myself - get into a rut with drug use where they repeat very similar experiences again and again, almost as though their primary motivations are boredom and a lack of creativity in choosing what to do next.  i've seen many people - including myself - do the same thing with work, school, video games, various social activities, and so on.

i feel very strongly that drug induced experiences are not a special category of experience that can be assumed to be of lesser value relative to all other forms of experience.  drug induced experiences should be evaluated on the same scale as all others.  most engineering students i knew in school were stuck in a terrible rut and missing out on many important life experiences; society rewarded that rut and few of them have left it.

any person stuck in a rut would benefit greatly from being led to do something new.  those engineering students would probably have benefited from a psychedelic experience; op might benefit from a dead sober experience. ^_^


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Re: Doing drugs makes you miss out on life experiences [Re: hmmn]
    #19198057 - 11/27/13 07:52 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I agree with OP to an extent. When I smoked weed I was living the same life I was before. Then I got pretty consumed with drugs in general and all my focus towards things went to drugs.


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Re: Doing drugs makes you miss out on life experiences [Re: luvdemboomers]
    #19198307 - 11/27/13 09:05 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Nope, drugs are just another rare hobby for me. Music is my main hobby.


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Re: Doing drugs makes you miss out on life experiences [Re: hmmn]
    #19200262 - 11/28/13 11:03 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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hmmn said:
i've seen many people - including myself - get into a rut with drug use where they repeat very similar experiences again and again, almost as though their primary motivations are boredom and a lack of creativity in choosing what to do next.  i've seen many people - including myself - do the same thing with work, school, video games, various social activities, and so on.




inotherwords, some drugs can be habit forming, and some habits can get boring


humans are weird creatures. we actively seek out things to addict ourselves to, in order to feel a sense of "holding onto something". food, drugs, partying, sex, music, relationships, etc.
even small OCD things represent somewhat of an addictive tendency.

we understand that we are impermanent beings living in an impermanent world, and we struggle with this notion by finding things to addict ourselves to.

we want to attach. we want to stick to things, and for things to stick to us. else we're just a void within void. smoke in the wind


Edited by Envix (11/28/13 11:10 AM)


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