From: kch@calmasd.Prime.COM (Ken Heshler)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: WOD Advertisement I saw on TV - i.e. LAME
Summary: Gee wiz, I'm glad I asked...
Date: 22 Dec 92 20:07:43 GMT
Organization: Computervision, San Diego, CA

In article <1992Dec21.163133.23604@bradley.bradley.edu>, dave@bradley.bradley.edu (David Vessell) writes:
> darinf@scarla.UUCP (Darin Fisher) writes:

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> >>The point is, when high you might be a little stupid about remembering
> >>your values, not to mention the dangers of unsafe sex. MJ can enhance
> >>physical sensations, and my FOAF says they still had a lot of fun even
> >>though they didn't actually have sex :-)
> >
> >If you are "a little stupid about remembering your values..." while under
> >the influence of a substance then you should 1) learn to be more 
> >responsible about becoming intoxicated or 2) re-evaluate your values.
> 
> No kidding.  I wonder if his tone would have been so cautious and
> mysterious if he'd been talking about alcohol.  No drug makes you do
> something you don't want to do.  If she wanted to have sex with the guy
> while high then it probably crossed her mind more than once to have sex
> with him sober, even if she had no intention of ever acting on that
> thought.  A drug might ease one's reluctance about doing something, but no
> drug can make you do something you don't want to do.
> 
> -- 
> *davE*   Making the world safe for intelligent dance music.  dave@bradley.edu.
> ########## David L. Vessell -- Bradley University Computing Services #########
> Your shame is neverending. Just one psychological drama after another.-Erasure

Gee, when posted this at the beginning, I thought I'd get flamed for it being
out of the norm FAQ stuff about how to do this, or the effects of usage on
this, etc... But, seeing by the amount of responses on my original post, I
think I finally posted something worthwhile, at least this once. :)

I agree with Dave above, I think self-preservation is one of our primal
instints, and nothing short of a labotomy would remove these "values" from our
minds. All this WODs hype gets me sick, there was another AD back a while ago
that showed this teenage girl jumping into any empty pool from the top platform
and the announcer saposedly "pushed" the idea the same as the cartoon I had
mention on the beginning of this strain. Facts will always save you from this
hype, maybe the people who push this stuff 'really' believe what they preach,
but, that doesn't make it factual. The general public doesn't want to study
up on this stuff, or research the 'reality' of what they preach, and so, become
easy to manipulate. I think it was a quote from Orwell's 1984 that stated that
if you control what people see, hear, and say, you control their minds. Maybe
not an exact quote, but you get the idea. If I only told you that ALL DRUGS
are bad, you only read that same, and EVERYBODY confirmed this, you would
think the same.

Funny thing about this WODs stuff, they only preach about the ILLEGAL stuff,
if we were to have a real War On Drugs, they would have to illegalize ALL
drugs, i.e. pain pills, vallium, uppers, downers, aspirin, cold medicines,
etc...

Anyway, IMO, I hate the hype, and I have to laugh everytime I see one of their
hyped up commercials. :)

Pardon my typing, i.e. run on sentences, spelling, etc... My mind sometimes
goes to fast for my fingers to keep up and causes typos and such... :)

-K
Don't believe EVERYTHING you are told, and question AUTHORITY...

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