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March 22, 2011 at 12:29 AM #680596March 22, 2011 at 4:26 AM #679456
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Participanti remember vividly a first party -drinking experience drinking way too much too fast at a h.s. party and throwing up on someone’s driveway. I even remember what jacket i was wearing and that a little bit of vomit got on it. i even kind of remember what i was thinking at the time– “dang, i was having fun, why did I have to overdo it?” But felt much better afterwards and wished i had a toothbrush.
What i try to teach my kids is that alcohol is truly a good thing, something that people were meant to use, but that the good feeling you get from alcohol does not increase as you drink more. it’s as good as it’s going to get with 1-2 drinks an hour is my lesson. faster and more doesn’t help with alcohol (and probably a lot of other things, too); in fact it makes things worse. it’s a lesson i review often with them. Who knows if it’ll stick or if they understand, or how they’ll figure things out themselves, but i think it’s a lot more persuasive than society’s current message, which is, adults only, sure, go to war when you’re 18, but don’t drink till you’re 21 because it’s too dangerous. Repression and prohibition and making something seem exotic and illicit leads to pent up demand that has to be unleashed, often in extreme ways.
drinking alone with porn is bad, but the isolation and sadness and unconnectedness are the problems, not alcohol in itself.
March 22, 2011 at 4:26 AM #679508scaredyclassic
Participanti remember vividly a first party -drinking experience drinking way too much too fast at a h.s. party and throwing up on someone’s driveway. I even remember what jacket i was wearing and that a little bit of vomit got on it. i even kind of remember what i was thinking at the time– “dang, i was having fun, why did I have to overdo it?” But felt much better afterwards and wished i had a toothbrush.
What i try to teach my kids is that alcohol is truly a good thing, something that people were meant to use, but that the good feeling you get from alcohol does not increase as you drink more. it’s as good as it’s going to get with 1-2 drinks an hour is my lesson. faster and more doesn’t help with alcohol (and probably a lot of other things, too); in fact it makes things worse. it’s a lesson i review often with them. Who knows if it’ll stick or if they understand, or how they’ll figure things out themselves, but i think it’s a lot more persuasive than society’s current message, which is, adults only, sure, go to war when you’re 18, but don’t drink till you’re 21 because it’s too dangerous. Repression and prohibition and making something seem exotic and illicit leads to pent up demand that has to be unleashed, often in extreme ways.
drinking alone with porn is bad, but the isolation and sadness and unconnectedness are the problems, not alcohol in itself.
March 22, 2011 at 4:26 AM #680123scaredyclassic
Participanti remember vividly a first party -drinking experience drinking way too much too fast at a h.s. party and throwing up on someone’s driveway. I even remember what jacket i was wearing and that a little bit of vomit got on it. i even kind of remember what i was thinking at the time– “dang, i was having fun, why did I have to overdo it?” But felt much better afterwards and wished i had a toothbrush.
What i try to teach my kids is that alcohol is truly a good thing, something that people were meant to use, but that the good feeling you get from alcohol does not increase as you drink more. it’s as good as it’s going to get with 1-2 drinks an hour is my lesson. faster and more doesn’t help with alcohol (and probably a lot of other things, too); in fact it makes things worse. it’s a lesson i review often with them. Who knows if it’ll stick or if they understand, or how they’ll figure things out themselves, but i think it’s a lot more persuasive than society’s current message, which is, adults only, sure, go to war when you’re 18, but don’t drink till you’re 21 because it’s too dangerous. Repression and prohibition and making something seem exotic and illicit leads to pent up demand that has to be unleashed, often in extreme ways.
drinking alone with porn is bad, but the isolation and sadness and unconnectedness are the problems, not alcohol in itself.
March 22, 2011 at 4:26 AM #680261scaredyclassic
Participanti remember vividly a first party -drinking experience drinking way too much too fast at a h.s. party and throwing up on someone’s driveway. I even remember what jacket i was wearing and that a little bit of vomit got on it. i even kind of remember what i was thinking at the time– “dang, i was having fun, why did I have to overdo it?” But felt much better afterwards and wished i had a toothbrush.
What i try to teach my kids is that alcohol is truly a good thing, something that people were meant to use, but that the good feeling you get from alcohol does not increase as you drink more. it’s as good as it’s going to get with 1-2 drinks an hour is my lesson. faster and more doesn’t help with alcohol (and probably a lot of other things, too); in fact it makes things worse. it’s a lesson i review often with them. Who knows if it’ll stick or if they understand, or how they’ll figure things out themselves, but i think it’s a lot more persuasive than society’s current message, which is, adults only, sure, go to war when you’re 18, but don’t drink till you’re 21 because it’s too dangerous. Repression and prohibition and making something seem exotic and illicit leads to pent up demand that has to be unleashed, often in extreme ways.
drinking alone with porn is bad, but the isolation and sadness and unconnectedness are the problems, not alcohol in itself.
March 22, 2011 at 4:26 AM #680611scaredyclassic
Participanti remember vividly a first party -drinking experience drinking way too much too fast at a h.s. party and throwing up on someone’s driveway. I even remember what jacket i was wearing and that a little bit of vomit got on it. i even kind of remember what i was thinking at the time– “dang, i was having fun, why did I have to overdo it?” But felt much better afterwards and wished i had a toothbrush.
What i try to teach my kids is that alcohol is truly a good thing, something that people were meant to use, but that the good feeling you get from alcohol does not increase as you drink more. it’s as good as it’s going to get with 1-2 drinks an hour is my lesson. faster and more doesn’t help with alcohol (and probably a lot of other things, too); in fact it makes things worse. it’s a lesson i review often with them. Who knows if it’ll stick or if they understand, or how they’ll figure things out themselves, but i think it’s a lot more persuasive than society’s current message, which is, adults only, sure, go to war when you’re 18, but don’t drink till you’re 21 because it’s too dangerous. Repression and prohibition and making something seem exotic and illicit leads to pent up demand that has to be unleashed, often in extreme ways.
drinking alone with porn is bad, but the isolation and sadness and unconnectedness are the problems, not alcohol in itself.
March 22, 2011 at 6:46 AM #679461USMCBunny
Participantbriansd1,
Google Big Book online, give Chap 8 a read. It’s only like 9 pages and gives the best advice about encouraging a guy to take a look at himself that I have seen. I know it’s called “to the wives”… this book dates back a long way. Simple fact – this guy is not going to change a thing until he wants to. My sisters alcoholism will kill her…soon.
March 22, 2011 at 6:46 AM #679513USMCBunny
Participantbriansd1,
Google Big Book online, give Chap 8 a read. It’s only like 9 pages and gives the best advice about encouraging a guy to take a look at himself that I have seen. I know it’s called “to the wives”… this book dates back a long way. Simple fact – this guy is not going to change a thing until he wants to. My sisters alcoholism will kill her…soon.
March 22, 2011 at 6:46 AM #680128USMCBunny
Participantbriansd1,
Google Big Book online, give Chap 8 a read. It’s only like 9 pages and gives the best advice about encouraging a guy to take a look at himself that I have seen. I know it’s called “to the wives”… this book dates back a long way. Simple fact – this guy is not going to change a thing until he wants to. My sisters alcoholism will kill her…soon.
March 22, 2011 at 6:46 AM #680266USMCBunny
Participantbriansd1,
Google Big Book online, give Chap 8 a read. It’s only like 9 pages and gives the best advice about encouraging a guy to take a look at himself that I have seen. I know it’s called “to the wives”… this book dates back a long way. Simple fact – this guy is not going to change a thing until he wants to. My sisters alcoholism will kill her…soon.
March 22, 2011 at 6:46 AM #680616USMCBunny
Participantbriansd1,
Google Big Book online, give Chap 8 a read. It’s only like 9 pages and gives the best advice about encouraging a guy to take a look at himself that I have seen. I know it’s called “to the wives”… this book dates back a long way. Simple fact – this guy is not going to change a thing until he wants to. My sisters alcoholism will kill her…soon.
March 22, 2011 at 8:41 AM #679491briansd1
Guestwalter, since you did research on the benefit of alcohol, do you think that all drinks are equal?
Wine, beer and hard liquor. I would think that the latter too don’t provide much benefits because they lack the antioxidants of wine. Beer is basically starch.
More broadly on the topic of addiction, my dad in his youth traveled to Laos. It was the time of Air America and plenty of Americans worked there (such as Alexander Haig).
Back then, my dad smoked opium. Only a small percent got addicted. And according to him, the addiction rate is about the same as today’s prohibition system in America.
He said that opium is wonderful and it’s a great way to kill pain, and die if you wish (only if euthanasia were legal).
March 22, 2011 at 8:41 AM #679541briansd1
Guestwalter, since you did research on the benefit of alcohol, do you think that all drinks are equal?
Wine, beer and hard liquor. I would think that the latter too don’t provide much benefits because they lack the antioxidants of wine. Beer is basically starch.
More broadly on the topic of addiction, my dad in his youth traveled to Laos. It was the time of Air America and plenty of Americans worked there (such as Alexander Haig).
Back then, my dad smoked opium. Only a small percent got addicted. And according to him, the addiction rate is about the same as today’s prohibition system in America.
He said that opium is wonderful and it’s a great way to kill pain, and die if you wish (only if euthanasia were legal).
March 22, 2011 at 8:41 AM #680158briansd1
Guestwalter, since you did research on the benefit of alcohol, do you think that all drinks are equal?
Wine, beer and hard liquor. I would think that the latter too don’t provide much benefits because they lack the antioxidants of wine. Beer is basically starch.
More broadly on the topic of addiction, my dad in his youth traveled to Laos. It was the time of Air America and plenty of Americans worked there (such as Alexander Haig).
Back then, my dad smoked opium. Only a small percent got addicted. And according to him, the addiction rate is about the same as today’s prohibition system in America.
He said that opium is wonderful and it’s a great way to kill pain, and die if you wish (only if euthanasia were legal).
March 22, 2011 at 8:41 AM #680296briansd1
Guestwalter, since you did research on the benefit of alcohol, do you think that all drinks are equal?
Wine, beer and hard liquor. I would think that the latter too don’t provide much benefits because they lack the antioxidants of wine. Beer is basically starch.
More broadly on the topic of addiction, my dad in his youth traveled to Laos. It was the time of Air America and plenty of Americans worked there (such as Alexander Haig).
Back then, my dad smoked opium. Only a small percent got addicted. And according to him, the addiction rate is about the same as today’s prohibition system in America.
He said that opium is wonderful and it’s a great way to kill pain, and die if you wish (only if euthanasia were legal).
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