9/3/2003
| { | um, someone help me.....i cant see anything on the webpage!!!!!!!like no posts, or menues....just the top thing that says blog | } |
| { | patti: every thought and action are results of the physical laws of nature, but one of those laws is free will. you are caused to do what you do by events in the past, which are all caused by things in THEIR past, so it's all a big chain reaction. alex: ... it's too much to read and I'm too lazy. and everyone go see my new site. http://kfinn.100megsfree5.com/ | } |
| { | i think we are independant--ok...here's a new question (please answer Patti's and mine) I figure a great way to have a god discussion is to take the writings of a great philosopher and discuss them... and who better to take a passage from then John Locke, one of the main founders of a modern democracy in his ideas. ok.... here's some locke to discuss...I'll try to get it verbatim...I'm copying it off a sheet..but my typing---- Man being born, as has been proved with a title to perfect freedom and an uncontrollable enjoyment of all the rights and priveleges of the law of nature, equally with any otehr man or number of men in the world, has by nature, a power, not only to preserve his property, that is, his life, liberty, and estate (yes, the declaration of independence did steal this phrase, it was originally locke's, but they changed estate to teh pursuit of happiness because women could not have an estate), against teh injuried and attempts of otehr men; but to judge of and punish the breaches of law in others as he is persuaded the offense deserves, even with death itselt, in crimes where heinousness of teh fact, in his opinion, requires it. essentially he says, in this state of perfect freedom we do waht we want, inclusing being judge, jury, and executioner for and supposed crime against us. He also said, that a life lived in perfect freedom would be "nasty, brutish, and short",so, my question is, I am sure that we all believe that people have perfect freedom when they exist only on their own little island, however to be able to enter into civil society as he calls it, we must sacrifice some of this perfect freedom. My question is, how much of thsi perfect freedom do we sacrifice? How do we go about sacrificing it? Who takes (should take) this freedom (much like matter freedom cannot be destroyed, only change hands)? and How can it be described where the boundary is between what freedoms are allowed in civil society and what is allowed in prefect freedom? | } |
9/2/2003
| { | ook i have a really random question i was just wondering sorry if i bother any of you with this but... do we actually have choices in this life or are every thought and action the neccesary result of the physical laws of the universe, independant of our free will? | } |
9/1/2003
| { | whoa way too many questions to catch up on! so i'll just ignore the other ones and talk about the drug thingy. personally i think our society makes a waaay bigger deal out of drugs than is necessary. even my mother thinks marajuana should be legal. true, drugs can hurt your brain cells and whatnot, but so can driving a car, when you crash into a tree. so can walking down the street and falling on the pavement. life is sooooo very fragile, that if you want to experiment and "expand your mind" or just get away from the stressfulness of life, then i can understand that. there's no reason to limit yourself or be very cautious when you could die at any moment anyway. and yes, okay, drugs could ruin your life in other ways, such as academically or whatever. but only in large portions. i don't do drugs, and i acknowledge that they ARE dangerous, but i wouldn't have less respect for someone if they did drugs. they're just another thing we humans have invented for our own pointless pleasure, and, yes, they can be damaging, but they can be fun and maybe enlightening too. i wouldn't know. oh oh and the music thing, i totally agree. what would we do without our beloved druggie musicians? it's a fact- you just can't have good music without druggies. | } |
| { | Also, I would never give up on a friend who was hurting themselves, I would try to help them to the best of my ability. Also also, how do you define drug? Something you put in your body that's not food? Define food. Something you put in your body that's not food and that affects your nervous system? OK, maybe, but doesn't food affect you too? Lots of people feel good after chocolate, or spaghetti, or something else. I bet there's a definition out there that perfectly differentiates food and drugs, but I don't know it. If anyone has an answer, inform! | } |
| { | I also believe you shouldn't do drugs while you're still a kid. Once your body has reached a stopping point, ok, but you don't want to fuck yourself up just because you wanted to see God. | } |
| { | Timothy Leary did drugs to expand his mind. The only way to prevent abuse is to train in proper use. Getting high doesn't make you drive. Being stupid makes you drive while high. Some drugs are really terrible and should be voided like the plauge, but from my VERY limited experience, some drugs aren't so bad if used with thought, for example, pot or LSD or mushrooms. You're right, there are bad reasons to do drugs, but there are good reasons, too. I dunno. As usual, it's all your choice, but I don't know if I'm so much anti DRUGS now as I am anti drug ABUSE. And in the immortal words of Bill Hicks- "You know, I think drugs have done good things for us, if you don't believe they have, do me a favor - take all your albums, tapes and CDs and burn 'em. Cuz you know what, the musicians who made that great music that has enhanced your lives throughout the years?
Rrrrrrrrrrrrreal fucking high on drugs." And it's true. Can you imagine a world without Tool? Not me. PS: Thanks for replying in various ways to my e-mail, although if you haven't yet, I'd rather you reply to that message by e-mail so I can just have everything in one place. | } |
| { | what other reasons for doing drugs?? I can only think of one--(aside from medicinal marajuana, and I do not think any of the blair students who smoke pot do so for medicinal reasons) It is fun and my friends do--defintiely not a good enough reason for me---and anyone who can be swayed by that...........I do not wish to associate with them | } |
8/31/2003
| { | umm ive been really busy ppls sorry i havnt posteded. umm drugs are bad. they give a bad first impression. my friend smokes and i wouldnt let him go outside to smoke i made him chew on a straw. he was ok with it though. he doesnt like smoking much its just hard for him to stop. well sorry again ill try to get on this site more. by the way, if you goto blair you probably know me and you just dont know you know me...*blinks*. | } |
| { | hey sorry zack...i know I havent posted much but Ive been mucho busy. Ask will :) ok *cough* anyway...ill try to post more often | } |
| { | People change, for the good and for the bad. Just because someone is completely straight edge does not mean that one of their friends is not going to do drugs. Also I feel it should be on a person to person basis- how can you just categorize all people that do drugs into one category?, there are tonz of different reasons for doing drugs. | } |
| { | I must kindly disagree morgan--I don't think it is ever ok to do drugs... I find it stupid, unthoughtful, short-sighted, dangerous, and illegal. Being comfortable has nothing to do with breaking the law--If I murder someone, but it's alright and I feel like I am going to do it the way I want to do it, then it's ok right? Obviously not, doing drugs is veyr different from murder, but the theory and idea holds true. It is not just yourself, you are killing yourself, and everyone who cares for you. You are being irresponsible, I'm sure many of you have seen that recent commercial that is all about how even more people are killed by high drivers (usually on pot) then drunk drivers. And, i'm sorry if it's mean, but when someone has decided to do drugs they have made a decision, a decision that they know will alienate me, as I make it veyr obvious and public that I am very straight-edge, just being around them would make me uncomfortable. Their choice to do drugs was already a turning from me to their other friends who do drugs, a turn that I cannot deal with. It is veyr selfish--but is their choice to do drugs not also?? Yes, it may be like dumping a friend who is not cool enough....but they are also dumping you. If a friend dumped me because of something that I did, I would be devastated, but instead of turning me into that behavior more, I think it would do the opposite, because I choose friends whose opinions matter to me, because I think that they are valid, instead of a dumping, I would see it as a wake-up call.......the end of my rant.....if anyone thinks that I was targeting them or something in this post-----or takes it too personally, I very much appologize | } |
| { | What I'm saying alex is that when I look there- the water bottle is there then that is what i know, maybe it isn't there when i look away but i do know for sure that when i looked there right then it was there. we've been on the drug topic but I like discussing it so lets go at it... It is ok to do drugs when you yourself accept it- when you feel like you are going to do it the way you want to do it. It is an individual descision that though friends may try- they cannot affect your individual descision. I would never ever ever seperate myself from a friend who began to do drugs because that's just full of crap- maybe if it made me uncomfortable that they were trying to get me to do it also but other than that I think that would be completely selfish and mean. It would be like dumping a friend that wasn't cool enough, you just don't do that. I feel like if someone was to do that to me I would be so deeply hurt (not that i'm doing drugs) that I would go and bond with my new friends more which would just increase the amount of stuff going on that made my old friend leave me. When is it ever ok to leave a friend, would you leave your brother/sister if they started doing drugs? Because thats the hurt that would come from that. | } |
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