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Would you have chosen a different path?
#26394385 - 12/21/19 05:18 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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If you could turn back time, back to before you got involved with drugs and their hallowed insanities, would you? Would you choose a different path?
I used to think I wouldn't change a thing, but recently I've been wondering if I've been deluding myself my whole life. Been playing silly games and winning silly prizes. Maybe.
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Re: Would you have chosen a different path? [Re: Northerner]
#26394427 - 12/21/19 05:43 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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I didn't do a whole lot of addiction drugs, mostly cannabis. I should of stayed away from tobacco.
I think it is our attitude halfway. That is mostly from societies attitudes, nothing is sacred.
I wish I explored meditation more at a young age. But that was not my family and catholic don't teach deep prayer that meditation can be.
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Re: Would you have chosen a different path? [Re: Northerner] 2
#26394429 - 12/21/19 05:45 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Hey, I’m like the inverse of you. I used to think that I would’ve chosen a different path in a lot of ways. I caused a lot of unnecessary pain to people who care(d) about me, a lot of unnecessary pain and trouble to myself. But somewhere in the past couple years, I realized that it all had to happen exactly as it did for me to be precisely where I am now. Which is where I feel I’ve ultimately always belonged. Like the culmination of a bunch of life choices led exactly to this, and even if a lot of those choices were dumb, it all ended up ok so far. Maybe you’re not happy where you’re at? That’s when I was thinking I’d have done it different.
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Re: Would you have chosen a different path? [Re: Burke Dennings] 1
#26394435 - 12/21/19 05:47 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yes, definitely. But not for my sake so much as for the sake of people I hurt. My parents deserve nothing but love, they are amazing people, but I put them through hell as an adolescent.
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Patlal
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Re: Would you have chosen a different path? [Re: morrowasted]
#26394495 - 12/21/19 06:31 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Drugs and alcohol are the wrong choice in life. They just make us feel like they are awesome. Because that's what they are designed for.
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Re: Would you have chosen a different path? [Re: Patlal]
#26394561 - 12/21/19 07:38 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'm not sure I believe in right and wrong. Such novel and subjective concepts.
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Re: Would you have chosen a different path? [Re: Patlal]
#26394644 - 12/21/19 09:02 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Patlal said: Drugs and alcohol are the wrong choice in life. They just make us feel like they are awesome. Because that's what they are designed for.
Counter argument: We are all dying. Right now. And some of those "drugs" are actually medicine when used correctly...... So :P
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Re: Would you have chosen a different path? [Re: spirit_shadow]
#26394647 - 12/21/19 09:06 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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spirit_shadow said:
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Patlal said: Drugs and alcohol are the wrong choice in life. They just make us feel like they are awesome. Because that's what they are designed for.
Counter argument: We are all dying. Right now. And some of those "drugs" are actually medicine when used correctly...... So :P
Medecines we use as a replacement for achievements and success
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Re: Would you have chosen a different path? [Re: Patlal]
#26394648 - 12/21/19 09:07 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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You can succeed and still use medicine.
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Re: Would you have chosen a different path? [Re: Northerner] 1
#26394652 - 12/21/19 09:10 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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I think we are stuck in a loop. you have no control over it even once you realize it. we've already lived this life. we will live it again. maybe we can change it i just haven't figured that part out yet.
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Re: Would you have chosen a different path? [Re: Northerner] 1
#26394830 - 12/22/19 12:07 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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The older I get the more I believe that people who say that they wouldn't change anything are either to prideful to admit they might've done something sub par or too stupid to realize there was better possibilities.
Everyone will admit they've made mistakes. That is basically the same thing as admitting you would have not done said thing if you could do it over again.
Would I be the same person as I am now? Maybe not. But maybe I'd be better than I am now.
Being happy with who I am =\= believing I am the best possible form of myself that could exist
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Re: Would you have chosen a different path? [Re: metalfaith] 1
#26395011 - 12/22/19 06:00 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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My excesses have been great teachers, and a pretty fun ride along the way. The fun has been outweighed by the misery it led to, and left physical damage, but still nothing I'd regret.
The one thing I got from it all is a contentment that happiness just wont be found in material things or pleasure seeking, pretty basic concept but enormously freeing when you have that first hand knowledge and experience.
On the downside, most casual conversation I encounter seems to be focused around things that I no longer have interest in, or is accompanied by booze/hard drugs, so it's been much harder to find genuine friendship.
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Re: Would you have chosen a different path? [Re: metalfaith]
#26395144 - 12/22/19 08:19 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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metalfaith said: The older I get the more I believe that people who say that they wouldn't change anything are either to prideful to admit they might've done something sub par or too stupid to realize there was better possibilities.
I don't think that's a fair assumption on your part - seems more like a projection onto others of your own personal realisations - because what's so bad about appreciating who you are and what you've been through?
Perhaps others don't wish to choose to perform the many thought experiments required to consider what might have changed and what impact it could have? Perhaps some really don't know what it is to live in regret?
And admitting making a mistake is in NO way comparable to 'admitting you would have not done said thing if you could do it over again'. Cause then it wouldn't be a mistake. And then it would not cause personal growth.
Mistakes are valuable. Fuck ups and pain and bad decisions and hurting people without meaning to and then feeling oneself hurting... these are all required for growth. I'm glad I fucked up so many times. It made me, me.
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Re: Would you have chosen a different path? [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#26395150 - 12/22/19 08:23 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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I would of grown more cannabis before getting a record for just protecting that.
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Re: Would you have chosen a different path? [Re: Northerner]
#26395155 - 12/22/19 08:29 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Like with drugs? Oh probably. They say you shouldn't smoke weed before 25 and I resemble all the things that are supposed to happen if you do. Though I guess I had a lot of those problems before I ever smoked weed. Combination of a control freak religious upbringing and coming from a long line of crazy people who live in places with miserable weather.
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Re: Would you have chosen a different path? [Re: psi]
#26395157 - 12/22/19 08:29 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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What kinda things are you referring to psi?
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Re: Would you have chosen a different path? [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#26395167 - 12/22/19 08:33 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Broadly, ADD type stuff and stunted social skills.
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Re: Would you have chosen a different path? [Re: psi]
#26395179 - 12/22/19 08:42 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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When we use drugs that are agonists we develope more receptors and brain cells that the specific drug activates. A mj smoker will have more cannabinoid receptors, and opiate user will have more opiate receptors, a nicotine user will have more nicotine receptors, so on and so on.
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Re: Would you have chosen a different path? [Re: Morel Guy]
#26395183 - 12/22/19 08:44 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Hmmm, I never heard about that being a potential side effect of early weed use. Just the psychosis type stuff.
Definitely didn't affect me, and I started at fourteen. I probably got off light though.
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Re: Would you have chosen a different path? [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#26395195 - 12/22/19 08:50 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Weed psychosis is an overhyped exaggerated semi myth from a not very indepth study.
Study concluded that a percentage of people inpatient with psychosis used cannabis prior to being inpatient.
Which is likely since almost the majority of people inpatient used cannabis some point prior in their lives.
There is more evidence or at least as much that inpatient patients were sexually abused as children. But the media and professionals don't find that as profitable as anti marijuana hysteria.
We could say that sexual abuse as a child leads to psychosis and using cannabis. That would be much more factual.
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