Cynicism as an approach to life

[The Good Reverend Roger]

The only lasting effect I've had from drugs was an idea that people should be nicer to each other.  Which lasted about three days, or the next time I had to drive in traffic, whichever came first.

TRAFFIC:  MY ANTI-DRUG.

[P3nT4gR4m]

I'm THE most enthusiastic/romantic person in my world. I'm constantly taking outrageous degrees of pleasure in the simplest little shit I come across. I try to look at the world through the eyes of the little kid that I used to be, the little cunt that's still in there somewhere. I laugh and run around in circles and experience the whole thing wild eyed and full of awe and wonder.

I'm THE most cynical person in pretty much everyone else's world. I don't expect anything to ever work out for anyone and I find it hilarious when it doesn't. It's dumb, it's retarded and damn near everyone has it back asswards. I'd clue them in but fuck'em they wouldn't listen and I'm too busy having fun to point out that painting it all gray is what's pissing them off in the first place.

I realise that it's the same world but, luckily for me, I got a twisted, fucked up lense on it that stops me seeing it "how it really is"

I'll be dead soon, take comfort in that if you must. I'll learn the horrible truth then, no doubt

[Epimetheus]

Well, for example for me, studying geology does both. Most hobbies build your knowledge about that hobby.

Oh, my goodness!  How did the goalposts get all the way over there!?

That was re: Things that give pleasure and knowledge. but i get now that that wasn't the point being contested.

In re: Drugs helping someone learn... Look at caffeine for example. Tell me that can't help you focus and learn. In re: Certain other/hallucinogenic drugs, it's just going to come down to anecdotes > anecdotes, so yeah fuck that...

In re: OP ingesting unknown drugs in quantities greater than advised by the damn dealer... FUCK THAT TOO.

[P3nT4gR4m]

In re: OP ingesting unknown drugs in quantities greater than advised by the damn dealer... FUCK THAT TOO.

If you're dumb enough to do it, I'm dumb enough to laugh at your twitching corpse

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Well, for example for me, studying geology does both. Most hobbies build your knowledge about that hobby.

Oh, my goodness!  How did the goalposts get all the way over there!?

That was re: Things that give pleasure and knowledge. but i get now that that wasn't the point being contested.

In re: Drugs helping someone learn... Look at caffeine for example. Tell me that can't help you focus and learn. In re: Certain other/hallucinogenic drugs, it's just going to come down to anecdotes > anecdotes, so yeah fuck that...

In re: OP ingesting unknown drugs in quantities greater than advised by the damn dealer... FUCK THAT TOO.

Drugs can be fun. They can even be useful.

They CAN be useful for certain things.

Looks like we all agree, then.

[Epimetheus]

Actually totally overlooked that line from Roger.  my brain is trolling me...

[P3nT4gR4m]

If you sing and dance constantly, extolling the virtues of this chemical or that, it's just another ism. I take pot, alcohol and cancer-free nicotine but I don't harp on about it like its the answer to life, the universe and everything. It turns me into a maniacal idiot and I like that occasionally.

Dalek is perfectly free to put what the fuck he likes into his body, in the pursuit of whatever the fuck it is he's looking for. If that's all he's going to talk about, tho, he's another boring stoner burnout. They get a bit cracked-record after you've met a couple of hundred of them.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

If you sing and dance constantly, extolling the virtues of this chemical or that, it's just another ism. I take pot, alcohol and cancer-free nicotine but I don't harp on about it like its the answer to life, the universe and everything. It turns me into a maniacal idiot and I like that occasionally.

Dalek is perfectly free to put what the fuck he likes into his body, in the pursuit of whatever the fuck it is he's looking for. If that's all he's going to talk about, tho, he's another boring stoner burnout. They get a bit cracked-record after you've met a couple of hundred of them.