Posts by andin
Last ←Newer Page 1 2 3 4 5 Older→ First
-
Hard News: Cabinet and the Reeferendum, in reply to ,
Whats dangerous about heroin is the risk of addiction, which won’t do any physical damage. The damage from addiction would be more psychic.
Dont kid yourself any drug from herbal tea to H has physical effects on neural tissues(the brain) and addiction is physical damage/changes to the neural transmitters and receptors in the brain. It is all physical damage in some form. There is no physical/mental duality its all physical. It just gives the appearance of being separate realities, its an appearance that many have exploited over the ages including religions.
Thats how they fill followers heads with all kinds of stupidity, the illusion of freewill. Or this or that is bad for you and may affect your chance of getting into that illusionary place where your dead relatives live with their figures of worship. And if they get them young enough it may take a lifetime to rid oneself of these fictions, if ever.
YES the brain is where ones consciousness resides but it is not a separate entity and it will die when you die and very much subject to what you put into your body. All manner of external factors affect it, they are all physical and have physical outcomes. Reading a book is a physical act and has physical outcomes, even if its just making you sleepy.If the doctor doesn’t prescribe it I don’t use it.
You do know that very fallible people who were doctors started the opiod crisis. And used to prescribe opium.
-
Hard News: Cabinet and the Reeferendum, in reply to ,
Remind me, why was alcohol prohibition introduced?
Puritanical zealotry, although to be fair to the dear christian ladies of the temperance leagues they had had a gutsful of the drunken males around that time getting a skinful and acting like entitled fuckheads, and beating up on women and children, one of many things.
Tho' they had little patience for native Americans, slaves and their descendants numbing the reality of miserable lives with alcohol, so gave no thought to denying the one pleasure available to them.
The USA has been a fucked up place for a while now, and shows no sign of getting away from being a revenue whore for the entitled mainly white male oligarchs who love a respectable front for their devious activities. I just hope Trump or similar doesnt get any more years than the two left to them until the next election. -
Hard News: Cabinet and the Reeferendum, in reply to ,
alcohol prohibition wasn’t all just bad
Those were all unintended consequences, that some worked out well was plain dumb luck. And Jazz was around before prohibition, it just gave musicians venues to play in, and paying jobs rather than street corners and a hat for 'donations'. There was little to no forethought in prohibition.
-
Hard News: Cabinet and the Reeferendum, in reply to Joe Boden,
Haha Im sure. I just hope he learned something from the conversation. Though that does take a willingness to admit when you are mistaken in a belief and Im not sure he has that ability, but I dont know the man personally.
-
Hard News: Cabinet and the Reeferendum, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Haha snap
My Thanks to Joe and Allison for that -
Trying all the links at different places I get this.
This site can’t be reached paperspast.natlib.govt.nz’s server IP address could not be found.
-
Hard News: Cabinet and the Reeferendum, in reply to Craig Young,
Family First is now trying to link cannabis with psychotic episodes.
They really went out of their way to find those examples. A lot are behind paywalls and one I see was just people filling in questionnaires, so not all that reliable. But scaremongering none the less. Whats a lobby group to do, but drag stats out of the woodwork and make it look as if the world will descend into madness.
I thought we had Donald Trump for that!How exactly does prudent behaviour when driving segue into cannabis prohibition?
Via faulty reasoning thru sensationalism and a very male machismo outlook that whispers to the thinker, they must save people from themselves and ban stuff they dont approve of, or outside their norm.
-
Speaker: The economics of shit speech, in reply to ,
When an important person says something stupid on twitter, which could inflame hatred and anger, its gets published in the news paper.
It used to be called gossip, and it was denigrated as useless. The funny thing is the purpose it serves isnt well understood or is lost in the mists of time. Its a leveler, the ultimate humanizer. An otherwise important person says something incredibly stupid/dumb/lazy ( say the king) it gives everyone a laugh he becomes just like the rest of us, another fool bumbling through life no better just better off.
The part that is lost is the speaker is supposed to learn from it as well, just a little bit of humility with each idiotic utterance. That part is glossed over, now its the double down. Never admit to being wrong or in Donald Trumps case admit to being anything other than a perfect embodiment of human intellect. Poor fool, I would pity him if he wasnt such a danger. -
Hard News: Cabinet and the Reeferendum, in reply to Craig Young,
this aspect of its propaganda has not been subjected to critical analysis and exposure
Laughing at this stupid strategy is always fun, but then you run the risk of righteous offence being taken, and who knows how much mileage can be got out of that, tho you can be sure it’ll be driven as far & as hard as possible. A leaf symbol on packaging and childproofing are simple solutions. Tho ignorant self righteous indignation splashed everywhere can do damage on fully grown minds before a child is sighted.
And this passage from the Vice article in unscrupulous hands could be spun to read sensationalist headline material if that was ones intention.
“In 2013, eight children were admitted to the emergency room of Children’s Hospital Colorado after accidentally ingesting their parents’ pot food. Although this number is relatively low, it is a jump from the 2005–2013 time bracket, an eight-year span during which only eight children total were admitted.”
Ya know the kind of thing “100% INCREASE IN ONE YEAR’ blah blah. So maybe let it die a natural media death of yesterdays news.
-
Hard News: Cabinet and the Reeferendum, in reply to BenWilson,
I just hope your right.
, it’s people within the coalition.
So they are aiming the gun at their feet?
And if I have to read another fucking piece about what MP smoked pot and how they felt! ^$#*& FUCK !!!
Typically the response is 'made me feel uncomfortable' REALLY! So you couldnt carry on with your normal bullshit social routine? Then it fucking worked, that is what is supposed to happen.