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Post by khaos on Apr 1, 2018 17:50:28 GMT
like a Turk
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Post by vampireforu on Jun 7, 2018 13:08:46 GMT
I don't smoke its bad for me.
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niceillustrator
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Post by niceillustrator on Oct 29, 2018 16:58:06 GMT
Don't see how that's going to contribute to anything about me.
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Oct 31, 2018 8:58:14 GMT
Ahh I just Hate Smoking... and I don't even like those person who smokes, I don't really care if they should smoke or not but I hate that person who smokes near me Would you smash a skull, break some bones, or shoot a man who smokes near to you?
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Post by Διαμονδ on Oct 31, 2018 11:20:12 GMT
Ahh I just Hate Smoking... and I don't even like those person who smokes, I don't really care if they should smoke or not but I hate that person who smokes near me Would you smash a skull, break some bones, or shoot a man who smokes near to you? I've always wondered if you smoke or not?
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Nov 1, 2018 21:15:26 GMT
Would you smash a skull, break some bones, or shoot a man who smokes near to you? I've always wondered if you smoke or not? No, I don't like smoke (as a fog, and as a process of tasting a cigarette). I had smoked a few times while I was reading some tough books of philosophy. It wasn't easy to understand 'em, so I started smoking while reading. Now, I don't do such practice. Earlier, the process of smoking didn't ruin me and it brand pleasure feeling during the process of smoking. Now, any smell of a cigarette seem really disgusting for me. I have addicted to a milk shape. (Молочный коктейль)
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Post by jonbain on Nov 1, 2018 22:07:25 GMT
On and off over the years. Not for half a decade now as the big '50' looms its not worth the pleasure any more. Its seriously over-rated, by those who cannot stop, and seriously under-rated by those who never tried. Ganja is better than tobacco in most respects, but ganja, then coffee, then tobacco, then write poem or a song is a very pleasant experience. If you are afraid of being addicted, then that is an issue that will not be resolved by not smoking. I recommend smoking and then stopping simply as a test of will-power. Yes, I am very much Ulysses tied to the mast and loving the sirens.
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Nov 1, 2018 22:11:43 GMT
On and off over the years. Not for half a decade now as the big '50' looms its not worth the pleasure any more. Its seriously over-rated, by those who cannot stop, and seriously under-rated by those who never tried. Ganja is better than tobacco in most respects, but ganja, then coffee, then tobacco, then write poem or a song is a very pleasant experience. If you are afraid of being addicted, then that is an issue that will not be resolved by not smoking. I recommend smoking and then stopping simply as a test of will-power. Yes, I am very much Ulysses tied to the mast and loving the sirens. Hi, Jonbrain! Thank you for your detailed answering. May I ask you, what did you mean under the last sentence: "I am very much Ulysses tied to the mas and loving the sirens"?
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Post by Διαμονδ on Nov 1, 2018 22:29:37 GMT
I've always wondered if you smoke or not? No, I don't like smoke (as a fog, and as a process of tasting a cigarette). I had smoked a few times while I was reading some tough books of philosophy. It wasn't easy to understand 'em, so I started smoking while reading. Now, I don't do such practice. Earlier, the process of smoking didn't ruin me and it brand pleasure feeling during the process of smoking. Now, any smell of a cigarette seem really disgusting for me. I have addicted to a milk shape. (Молочный коктейль) How about this?
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Clovis Merovingian
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Post by Clovis Merovingian on Nov 2, 2018 3:42:15 GMT
I don't smoke and never would. My brother does though.
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Post by EvilSpiriT on Nov 2, 2018 4:23:58 GMT
Never did or never will. Nor do I drink.
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Nov 3, 2018 7:40:41 GMT
No, I don't like smoke (as a fog, and as a process of tasting a cigarette). I had smoked a few times while I was reading some tough books of philosophy. It wasn't easy to understand 'em, so I started smoking while reading. Now, I don't do such practice. Earlier, the process of smoking didn't ruin me and it brand pleasure feeling during the process of smoking. Now, any smell of a cigarette seem really disgusting for me. I have addicted to a milk shape. (Молочный коктейль) How about this? I was invited to taste it a few times, but I refused the proposition. No, I never taste it. And being honestly, I don't want to do it. I smoked just for concentration, so it can be interpreted as some kind of a medical support. Actually, for now the smoke is so horrible to smell.
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Post by Polaris on Nov 3, 2018 12:34:13 GMT
I DON'T SMOKE AND I WILL NEVER DO IT. I TRIED IT WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER JUST A FEW CIGARETTES BUT I DIDN'T LIKE IT AND I STOPPED IT.
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Post by jonbain on Nov 3, 2018 14:38:44 GMT
On and off over the years. Not for half a decade now as the big '50' looms its not worth the pleasure any more. Its seriously over-rated, by those who cannot stop, and seriously under-rated by those who never tried. Ganja is better than tobacco in most respects, but ganja, then coffee, then tobacco, then write poem or a song is a very pleasant experience. If you are afraid of being addicted, then that is an issue that will not be resolved by not smoking. I recommend smoking and then stopping simply as a test of will-power. Yes, I am very much Ulysses tied to the mast and loving the sirens. Hi, Jonbrain! Thank you for your detailed answering. May I ask you, what did you mean under the last sentence: "I am very much Ulysses tied to the mas and loving the sirens"? If you are not sure who Ulysses is, its a Greek legend of a guy who wanted to listen to the sound of the sirens singing. The sirens were mythical women who lived in the sea whose singing was so beautiful that sailors would hear them and drown themselves in pursuit of them. So Ulysses had his ship's crew tie him to the mast of the ship so that he could hear their singing without being drowned. So by metaphor, I want to taste of all the real pleasures of life, no matter how dangerous they might be, believing that I will be able to out-wit the danger. So smoking is something like the singing of sirens. Yes, it may kill you, but only if you do not think on it carefully. The occasional smoke is actually fairly enjoyable, and its only if you have an addictive personality that it is problematic. In fact I even read somewhere (unsure of its validity mind-you) that people who have smoked and then quit have a lesser chance of contracting psychological problems and even brain-disorders like Parkinson's disease. This makes sense because people who have the willpower to resist the siren's song, and also the will to experience the pleasure of it, may just have, or develop, a disposition that is more adaptable and better at exercising dietary limits due to simply having a stronger will. Sugar addiction is probably the most under-rated danger in health. This is likely the cause of many problems like Alzheimer's. So being able to indulge and give up is highly beneficial to limiting potentially toxic junk food. After all, nothing is dangerous if the dose is small enough, and anything that is healthy can be dangerous in large enough doses. Its also about understanding how addiction occurs. The body gives craving to anything it is used to, so if you develop the ability to willfully ignore those cravings, then eventually they go away. This is regardless of what substance we are considering. Even behavior like sex works this way. The trick is to just focus the relevant psychological energy on something else each time you get a craving. Swimming in the sea, chewing gum, playing a video game or musical instrument. The trick is to find things to do that are interesting. After all, addiction really is just a habit caused by boredom. The mind needs to explore and make things interesting for itself. The first step in any endeavor is the most difficult; and fully appreciating that, is the key to any such accomplishment.
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Nov 4, 2018 16:54:49 GMT
Hi, Jonbrain! Thank you for your detailed answering. May I ask you, what did you mean under the last sentence: "I am very much Ulysses tied to the mas and loving the sirens"? If you are who Ulysses is, its a Greek legend of a guy who wanted to listen to the sound of the sirens singing. The sirens were mythical women who lived in the sea whose singing was so beautiful that sailors would hear them and drown themselves in pursuit of them. So Ulysses had his ship's crew tie him to the mast of the ship so that he could hear their singing without being drowned. So by metaphor, I want to taste of all the real pleasures of life, no matter how dangerous they might be, believing that I will be able to out-wit the danger. So smoking is something like the singing of sirens. Yes, it may kill you, but only if you do not think on it carefully. The occasional smoke is actually fairly enjoyable, and its only if you have an addictive personality that it is problematic. In fact I even read somewhere (unsure of its validity mind-you) that people who have smoked and then quit have a lesser chance of contracting psychological problems and even brain-disorders like Parkinson's disease. This makes sense because people who have the willpower to resist the siren's song, and also the will to experience the pleasure of it, may just have, or develop, a disposition that is more adaptable and better at exercising dietary limits due to simply having a stronger will. Sugar addiction is probably the most under-rated danger in health. This is likely the cause of many problems like Alzheimer's. So being able to indulge and give up is highly beneficial to limiting potentially toxic junk food. After all, nothing is dangerous if the dose is small enough, and anything that is healthy can be dangerous in large enough doses. Its also about understanding how addiction occurs. The body gives craving to anything it is used to, so if you develop the ability to willfully ignore those cravings, then eventually they go away. This is regardless of what substance we are considering. Even behavior like sex works this way. The trick is to just focus the relevant psychological energy on something else each time you get a craving. Swimming in the sea, chewing gum, playing a video game or musical instrument. The trick is to find things to do that are interesting. After all, addiction really is just a habit caused by boredom. The mind needs to explore and make things interesting for itself. The first step in any endeavor is the most difficult; and fully appreciating that, is the key to any such accomplishment. Thank you so much for your answer! Now, I remembered. Surely, I've heard about Ulysses in one of the dialogues of Plato. (Sorry, I don't remember what exactly it was, but I am sure that it was either one of the earlier dialogue, or it was a middle one dialogue before "Parmenides".) Also, thank for your very informative comment. Most of your thoughts seem interesting to me. Even surfacing I can feel that all of your thoughts is not just a theory, but something that you have in your practice. I mean that your thoughts are grounded, they have fundamental reasons. Speaking about smoking. As I said I did it just for concentration. You said that it was like "to be imaged like Ulysses hearing the Sirens". Honestly, it was something that allowed me to taste cigarettes in a manner style. What do I mean? I was playing "Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth" in PC around 2006 when there was the detective Jack Walters who smoked. I liked his image and it was a tasty thought to act like him smoking. (I think that some people can repeat some things trying to mime (using a technique of mimesis) Sherlock Holmes, or Columbo, or another one character who was spotted with a cigarette between his lips. I didn't know about the consequences of smoking which prevent some diseases. Hmm... it sounds cool. I heard that cannabis help with eye-problems, so it would be nice to taste it just for this. Generally, many poisons and narc stuff are using as medical pills, and mixtures. I remember a scene for "Fight Club" when Tyler Derden said the Teller that while an accident in the flight (I mean an accident on the plane during a flight) some oxygen apparatus used as a remedy of stress... (I mean that common cures are nothing, but the narcotics) to prevent panic. This idea 'to taste everything' seems to me very rational. I think that if I had endless (or almost an endless) life, I would do the same. But, there are some things which we perceive as mental barriers (the consciousness effect); for example, there's a barrier in cousins marriage, and there's a barrier of killing someone, etc. Yes, many things in our life are not necessary, and they have no fundamental explaining, but it doesn't mean that a lack of this explanation is the reason to break it... So, I mean that it is a good thing to taste everything, but there's a real life and our thoughts. I hope that our thoughts are in the sanctuary of our mind (brain?), and we can think whatever we want. But the real life is something different. It is a unique. If we die in real life, the other people will loose us. That's why (I think) it is important to not do some things to prevent some occasions that allows us to loose our friends and close people. Some actions destroys the norm life that gives us to feel more, and so on. We made the barriers for our comfort. And the comfort is a conditions for our feelings. Therefore, to live life with good feelings we need to take care of those traditional views which were made by milliards of people to keep our feelings. (I agree that this thought can be arguable. I don't insist on this thought.) For the will sake - I agree. Yeah, there are many temptations in our world, and they are good for increasing our will-ability, our willpower. In little doses it is good, and, however, it's not easy to control their influence on little doses. Yes, I fully agree that little doses are better that huge doses, but if you do something constantly (even in little doses) it might have caused a passion. ...And your theory of addiction is good. I can say that our nature of passions is something like what we call an addiction. I think that it's of the wrong focuses. I remember there was a test of a psychologist who said that the one who's addicted would see a picture of the young woman, while the other one would see something different. As in the nature of sight, our soul is made by similar structure - it has an ability of focusing. We can focus ourselves to something. If our ability of focusing would stuck, we'd be in a big trouble. Yeah, this last paragraph gives a cool rule - the reason is a boredom. Yeah, it's so. And in the upper terms of my last paragraph is the problem of focusing. I'd like to have fun with a girl to get myself entertained. The other person is the one we're looking for. Any human being is more interesting that a thing, or a pet. Entertaining with the opposite sex is the highest level of any interests... maybe.
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Post by just10sp on Nov 4, 2018 19:57:49 GMT
I admit it, I used to smoke.. but it wasn't my fault
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