I used “!=” to mean “not equal”.
When I wore a younger man’s clothes I was a monster. I worked construction, 240 pounds of hard muscle and an attitude and disposition towards violence. I left a trail of deceit and used people like toilet paper. I have beaten people up, I have been beaten up. I have broken bones, I have knocked people out. I have also had my jaw broken and I have been knocked out. I consorted with the lowlifes, I was one. I was an alcoholic and drug user.
At the age of 32 while staggering home from a bar, I had an epiphany, I told myself I did not like who I was.
I was very fortunate, I was able to change, I became a better person. It was a long and difficult journey, involving half-way houses, living on the street, spending the night on a friend’s couch, therapy, sessions with an organization that treated addiction, and many other events and situations.
I found the right people, those with integrity and compassion.
I am not the person I was from back then. People can change, they can improve, they can grow, they can become what they have always wanted themselves to be.
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I’ve only ever seen “=/=” to mean that something doesn’t equal.
True. I also have 2 friends who have beaten people and gotten beaten (though neither have lost a fight), and have even apparently killed people (not saying you killed anyone)…I don’t think either of them have ever used drugs, but one of them has a sex addiction and the other smokes a lot of weed.
I know that…I’m just glad that you managed to change. It’s never good to be stuck in any sort of bad cycle. I had a different sort of addiction, a porn addiction, which I still have. It always leaves me sad in the end, more depressed, but every time I stop using it, I get withdrawal…I literally couldn’t function at all for several months, when I didn’t view it at all. I’m trying to change that, so I’m taking a different approach. I’m going to slowly watch/read less and less of it, because every time I just go cold turkey, I stop functioning until I go back, and then I end up viewing more than before. How do you suggest that I end my porn addiction?
Yeah, I see it now lol
They’ve beaten people, and they’ve been beaten… but they never lost. AND they have apparently killed people???
Wow… Just… Wow… Ya know, with statements like that, it would seem your friend is not the only one smoking a lot of weed.
Perhaps I should rephrase. They’ve beaten people, and while they have been beaten up, they have never lost a fight. And yes, they told me that they killed people, but it was only because they were provoked or about to die. And no, they’re not in a gang.
Yeah, I realized my mistake later. Also, I have never smoked weed before, though I plan on doing so sometime in the future, after giving birth to the child.
It is a long journey. Begin with the understanding, and be aware every time you start to view porn, that it is damaging to you. It has the potential of taking you down the road to addiction, violence against you, prostitution, drugs, poverty and death.
When I discovered I had diabetes, I had to cut back on my intake of sweets and Coke. Every time I took a Coke out of the fridge and was about to put it to my mouth, I told myself, yes, “you love it, but it is also killing you”. I started to perceive it not as a comfort but an enemy of my body.
The end result is that today, even though I still absolutely love Coke, I go days without one, and carefully ration my intake. And my diabetes is fully under control.
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Take it from someone who has taken drugs from pot to LSD to heroin. It’s not worth it, please don’t start.
The world is a much nicer and wondrous place when you can view it with clarity and not through the eyes of some drug.
Drugs are an escape from reality, an avoidance.
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Thanks! I’ll keep that in mind.
Yeah, it might not be the best idea, but weed is the safest to take (not counting for other things such as driving, of course). You literally cannot overdose on weed.
Yes you can. Very much like alcohol it will make you vomit. give a motherfucker of a headache, the shakes and likely put you off for life.
" Here are are the symptoms you may experience if you overdose on weed:
** High levels of anxiety*
** Panic attack*
** Rapid heart rate*
** Difficulty conversing*
** Poor coordination*
** High or low blood pressure*
** Nausea and vomiting*
** Extreme confusion and memory problems*
** Paranoia*
** Hallucinations*
Milder overdoses are typically characterized by nausea, anxiety, lethargy, dizziness, and paranoia https://www.webmd.com/
It seems you are making (as habitual on every thread you engage) uninformed or inflammatory comments.
Just so I can keep up; you claimed that you are 14 and a half…but that you got pregnant at 16, but now you are nearly 18 and have yet to give birth?
And nobody has noticed? There must be one helluva bump there by now?
You claim to have knowledge of the workings and MO of Antifa and BLM, yet everything you write seems to come from fox news and the trumpistas. Do you only get Fox at home?
That might explain your immature, partisan views on all those other subjects you pontificate on as well as that subject. .
Your trumpeting of Incel propaganda is also of concern. Your grasp of history is as tenuous as your in depth social studies on domestic violence. Facile, shallow and immature.
You ask for “atheist views” yet have to be corrected several times when it is pointed out that there is NO “atheist view”.
I am calling troll at worst, immature, facile, imbecilic lies at best.
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I meant die on weed, since that’s what it usually entails.
My boyfriend looked it up; it said you had to smoke so much, and then it’s only a possibility that you die from it.
Can You Overdose on Marijuana? (No, But There are Other Risks) (addictiongroup.org)
Ok, let me clarify.
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I accidentally dated 30 year old men as a 13/14 year old without knowing that it’s bad.
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I got pregnant near the end of my 17th year of life, and I am almost 18.
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I think I started on here at 16 or so.
No, I don’t even read/watch Fox. I have no idea what they do over there.
I WILL provide evidence for my claims for Antifa, if you want.
I can also get evidence for them.
Like what?
“Incel propaganda”? Lol. What “Incel propaganda” am I “trumpeting”?
Like what?
That’s it, I have to make that list tonight, and give it to you guys in a bit. Even if it’s only a start.
Also, here is this:
Prove it.
I’m no longer asking for that, am I? And I had only asked that because atheists tend to lean more one way than not, than other groups.
This sentence literally makes no sense.
you are as immature and imbecilic as I stated; If you bothered to read my post I quoted the Web MD website where it clearly laid out the symptoms of overdose.
Here are are the symptoms you may experience if you overdose on weed:
** High levels of anxiety*
** Panic attack*
** Rapid heart rate*
** Difficulty conversing*
** Poor coordination*
** High or low blood pressure*
** Nausea and vomiting*
** Extreme confusion and memory problems*
** Paranoia*
** Hallucinations*
Milder overdoses are typically characterized by nausea, anxiety, lethargy, dizziness, and paranoia https://www.webmd.com/*
I put the link in bold for you this time.
And I said overdoses which you die. I did not say mild overdoses that cause some harm.
Yes I accidentally ate a live porcupine when I was 10. I didn’t know it was bad either. But then it it didn’t taste good either.
Did you “date” these men as a girl or a boy?
Not that it matters, every CHILD I have known gets the feeling that it is “wrong” to be engaging in such activities. That they may be coerced, pressured or seduced or rebelled themselves into activities online or even in person, but they sure as fuck know it was “wrong”.
How many of these peadophiles have you reported? Now you KNOW it was wrong?
No, when called out on your LIE, you changed your reply…and the issue is “OVERDOSE” trying to weasel word your way out of the stupid comment you made does not bode well for your future on this forum.
And you are talking utter shite as you have been told on more than one occasion. It has been amply demonstrated on the threads you have engaged in here, that there is no “leaning more one way” on any subject except the non existence of a god or gods.
The rest of your replies I will leave without comment. You are obviously very young or a very stupid 40 year old living in Mom’s basement.
That you are either a troll or an imbecile is my opinion, and yes, I have paid very close attention to your posts.
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it worked for me. I hope it may assist you, but each person is unique and what works for one may not be effective for another.
Every time I raise a Coke to my lips, I make a conscious thought, that this stuff will kill me. I love it, but it is also my mortal enemy.
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