So being straightedge makes me angry? I can stereotype too, but I’m not gonna. I am buddhist. Not a whole lot of angry buddhists, eh? One reason I don’t do them is that even if they did not cause harm to me, I would cause harm to those who loved me by doing them. Its pretty bad to hurt others while indulging in your own pleasure.
Also, I have dealt with addiction. Not the heavy curled-up-in-fetal-position, giving-handjobs-for-crack kind, but an addiction to the simple drug caffiene. Pounding headaches when i didn’t have any and the stuff it was doing to me made me decide to stop. Haven’t even had a coke in many weeks.
Why should you not do drugs? Drugs are an international commodity. To buy a sack of coke off the street finances drug lords. The same people who kill and corrupt innocent lives in many 3rd world countries. Ever seen Traffic?
And I am not a naiive little straightedger. I know about many many drugs, the synthesis of them, what they do. Better to be educated about what you are keeping away from you than to blindly deny it.
To all the other straightedgers, I raise a fist in the air for you! Resist!
Hey, SpinneZiege, more power to ya, man. Jomo been clean & sober for over 16 years now.
<Bob Dylan singing “Changing of the Guards”>
Sixteen years! (Sixteen years!)
</Bob Dylan>
I believe in the power of Love to effect this major change in your life. Love is one of the few invincible forces that will really make it work. In my case, I kicked the habits through a religious conversion. The Spirit is another potent life-changing power like Love. (My ex-wife was a druggie like me. The new Mrs. Mojo has never in her life gotten anywhere near drugs. I quit during the interval between the two.)
With the exception of opiates, I’ve been through just about all the drug habits: tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, LSD, caffeine . . . freed myself from all of them by the grace of God(dess).
<John Lennon singing “I Found Out”>
I seen the junkies, I been through it all
I seen religion from Jesus to Paul
</John Lennon>
The last to go was my coffee addiction; I broke away from its tightly clutching grip about a year and a half ago. But I still love The Bean and indulge from time to time . . . I’m just careful not to drink it every day in a row, so’s I don’t get hooked again.
<Roger Daltrey>
We won’t get hooked again!
</Roger Daltrey>