Beer FTW!!.
Fuck the world, shave the children!
I've had to see up close how someone close to me succumb to drugs. This person was a prime example of the "gate theory". Beer -> weed -> pills & speed.
So, yeah. Fuck that shit. All of it.
I haven't told many people about my experience with drugs but in all honesty it is a miracle that I am alive today. Thats what a team of doctors said to me after I ingested 30,000 mg of pain killers during a suicide attempt during my teen years. At that stage if I could have gotten my hands on a gun I would have just made a big mess of things and be done with it all.
I can easily see how things like crack cocaine and crystal meth are hard for certain people to let go of because they grab ahold of your attention in an immediate way.
I tried crack once in my life........for a week straight. I'd go on LSD and Meth binges for months wandering from place to place. And weed, dont get me started because I never considered that to be a drug, it was just something to smoke, like cigarettes.
I spent from the ages of 16 until about 21 abusing nearly any drug or substance I had access to, which ironically enough become easier and easier to get once I got my foot in the door.
I have to say from my experiences with drugs that it isn't a road I'd suggest anyone happily travel without an unlimited and unconditional group of loving and supportive family and friends because it is a lot easier to get lost in life fading in and out of consciousness and I'm not talking about the immediate buzz factor, moreso the ultimate perception ones has of life while clear minded with straight forward dreams and goals.
Wow dude, glad to hear you were able to kick it all and get your life back on track (as I presume it is now), and that last paragraph is a great insight of wisdom indeed, well said!
I believe life is about experiencing moments and having moments of awakened awareness.In a drug induced state your experiencing an altered reality.Some people can handle that experience and that reality better than others,it's just there DNA or the way there wired so to speak.
I know of a number of people who have died because of alcohol and heavy drug usage.Sad because that they didn't get to fulfill there potential.
Most good people turn into bad people after long drug use.It's not there fault but the addiction taking over and being in control.
I also find it very encouraging that alot of members say "Fuck That Shit" it's a worthy motto to have,when confronted by this issue.
Essentially what your doing when your inducing yourself in a druged state is handing over YOUR power.The reactions and realities are wide and varied,sometimes good and fun,but for those it takes a hold of,painful and devastating.
Ultimately it's each to there own hence why we have been given a healthy brain and body to occupy throughout the course of our life's journey.
I can only speak from my own experience here but I am sure a number of member would agree.
When you play music and you play with everything that you have,body,mind and soul you literally enter an altered state and the energy between the members interacting and performing that music is in my opinion the best drug ever made available.
Owen,
I'm not sure where your trying to go with this,but The brain is the organ in the body that keeps you alive. Without it, you'd just be a bunch of random organs lying around.
Your brain controls everything about you. Your interests, personality, skills, thoughts, memories, emotions, breathing, heart beats, and just about everything your body does!
The brain processes everything that you tell it, consciously or subconsciously, to process. An ultimate, unreplicable computer. Without the influences of a spirit it can do nothing at all.
So seeing we are here in spirit,and our part is in evolving i don't see how it's design was meant to keep things out.