I have the sneaking suspicion that I would probably be sharper if I didn’t smoke weed in the evenings to help me sleep. I could’ve gotten a script, but what’s the point in limiting the dose when it has such a large therapeutic index? Also, why should I get my insurance involved when I can buy it from a store legally anyway?
Also, I’ve been mulling over getting off traditional ADD stimulants, and going onto something with a more targeted profile (provigil/nuvigil/some kind of ampakine), and have been titrating myself down on the methylphenidate. I’m thinking I just hit that spot where I start to notice my performance lacking, but am not getting withdrawal symptoms.
Psychiatric drugs can be just the worst shit. I mean, they do save lives, but in an age and place where all we really have of value is our brains, they’re screwing with them in less-than-predictable ways. More predictable over the years, but still, not awesome.
I was on prozac for a very long time, and eventually it got so bad that one day I just had to ask myself: “Which is worse? Living the rest of my life as a robot who can’t feel anything, even in extreme situations? Or killing myself tomorrow?”
No buddy, being free means having the right and prerogative to dress (or not) however the fuck someone wants and not having to dress a certain way to appease fools who think men who ignore women’s right not to be molested or worse are going to suddenly respect women who dress a certain way. Attraction isn’t compulsion. I’m attracted to members of the opposite sex daily, yet somehow without breaking a sweat I manage not to creep or molest any. I can’t even resist chocolate, so the willpower required to not be a shitty human being is not particularly tremendous. Guess who’s solely responsible for not molesting or otherwise physically assaulting another human being? That’s right, the person doing or not doing the deed.
But please, continue playing apologist for perverts. It won’t make them look any better, but it certainly undermines the sexist bullshit you trotted out.
The irony, or rather hypocricy, of their graphic, is that Jews and Christians have been defrauding people for 2000+ years with their fake made up make believe god that does not exist. At all. Period. End of story.
First you say that they made it - then you say they didn’t. Make up your mind! FWIW I think creating gods can be great fun, and I wouldn’t resent anybody for just doing this. Deities are metaphysical concepts, so complaining about their degree of reality is about as futile as arguing about whether art or emotions are real.
True enough. Making up gods can be plenty of fun. What I complain about are the people doing things because they think their gods are real, and insisting that we respect their fantasies as if they actually have a foundation in the real world.
Just look at all the pundits claiming natural disasters are happening because gay people aren’t being killed often enough to appease their bloodgods. It incites real violence no matter how made up the deities are.
At least, that’s why I’m on the side of pointing out how these religious people are all too often hypocritical bigots who deserve no respect.
People think the 60’s, but the real sexual revolution, drug revolution, and spiritual awakenings were in the 20s. That was a seriously wild and crazy decade.
That’s disgusting.
I can’t even.
I’ll never find the link, but there was a tremendous article written by a woman raised in that world about how, when she was finally able to be with a man, it destroyed her sense of self- she had been made to define herself by her virginity for so long that when it was gone, she didn’t know who she was. Brutal to read, but important.
