smoking vs. thinking

If you're not already addicted to drugs, cigarettes or alcohol, stop and think before you start.
There are a few sensible questions most people don't ask themselves before making long-term mistakes with drugs, alcohol and cigarettes.

1. Is there anyone you know who's had any good happen to them through any of these ?

2. Have you ever heard someone talk about trying to quit something that wasn't bad for them?

3. Do you favor the notion of paying your hard earned money (over many years) for something that will kill you slowly and sometimes painfully? (unless you die instantly from a drunk-driving accident or a drug over-dose)

4. Do I want to subject my loved ones to the possibility of me prematurely dying?

5. I can always quit the habit if I try hard enough, but can I quit a disease that my choice might cause?

6. Do I want to live a life of feeding harmful impulses? or live with a conscious mind and a healthy body?

7. What kind of parent do I eventually want to be? Would I want my kids living like I am?


Smoking :The fact is the air is polluted enough already without you paying to breathe filthy air directly from a cigarette as well as pollute more air for others around you. It changes your voice, kills your taste buds and makes you stink.

Drinking: It's not Drinking exactly that's a sin, Its gluttony. Personally for me I don't drink because it doesn't interest me, and I've seen it create a lot of problems for people I know and I've seen no real good has come as a result of it's use.

Drugs: People are stupid enough in this country without pot being legal, Imagine if it was. That's my main reason I'm against its legalization. As for the people who claim drugs make them "more creative", Drugs only make people numb to the fact that they aren't creative.
There's no point in becoming addicted to something that you're not already, and to any school kids in Jr. High or High school, it might seem like a crucial period in life where everybody else's opinion matters and everyone has to prove themselves. The fact is High school is full of impressionable kids who'll blindly do what they think everyone else is doing. There attempts to fit in through fashion or substance abuse only makes them more un-original. Be yourself, the best way you can do that is to have a clear head and a clean conscience, and people will respect you for it.

Contradictions of Racists

Here are a few (of many) I've come upon.

1. People who say "Now I'm not a racist or anything..." usually follow up that disclaimer by saying something totally racist.

2. I once took a picture of some graffitti I came upon. Among the "slayer 666" and the "Metallica" I found one that said "Wite Power". To make a statement like that and misspell "white" was one of the funniest things I've ever photographed.

3. People who are racist against mexicans often accuse them of leaving their trash on the ground. When those same people throw their trash on the ground they usually have the mindset that "some mexican" will pick it up.

4. A lot of descendents of the ancient and majestic land of caucasia, or "white people" as I call them like to complain that only black people can call each other "niggas". My question is "Do you feel like you're missing out?" "Do you want to go around freely calling black people niggers?". Usually that makes them stop and think about why they're complaining. If you are white and still feel like you're missing out, start calling your white friends "honkies", then act surprised and offended if a black person calls you one. I can see where black people are coming from though, If my Dad calls me kid I don't mind, but if other people did I might think they were being offensive.

*more to come*

Whats so noble about dissatisfaction?

If you've ever taken a philosophy class in college, you know that there are no answers to your questions, no absolute truth to be found, Just ideas. Some go the route of universalism to solve their philosophical debates. "Every "truth" is the same and we can all thank god/godess that we are ok with it." In my opinion if you stand for everything, you stand for nothing.
Why is it that those who have searched for truth and found it are looked down upon as being lazy, or naive? If you go on some fruitless search your whole life, somehow many people see it as the only respectable solution (or lack thereof). It makes no sense to me. If one wanders in an apple orchard because they are hungry, smells every apple but doesn't eat any, and starves in a feeble attempt to find the best tasting one, they are insane (lifelong agnosticism). But one is labelled equally insane and even naive for eating an apple and solving their dilemma (form me Christianity). Why is it noble to be unhappy? Is that how we were meant to live? Ignorance is bliss, but bliss doesn't mean ignorance. Look at whats "in style" go to any movie theatre or barnes and noble. look at the kids outside. Looking sickly, skinny, and moping around with tight torn clothes is cool. Im not sure what its like in other parts of the country that aren't California, but that's pretty big here. The sad thing is these kids go home to their parents. They don't need jobs but they want to look like they just woke from a coma in a gutter outside a barbazon modeling agency. It's like Jack Skellington and Cindi Lauper had a bunch of babies that spread like rabbits throughout california. EAT SOMETHING!!!