On 2012-01-21 7:14 PM, Charred wrote:
> Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your
> life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and
> then vanisheth away. James 4:14
>
> Did you ever think about this as you were blowing smoke up into the
> sky?
> Surely, God must have created cigarettes for our pleasure!
>
> It's a Stinking, Expensive, Dangerous, Filthy, Addiction!
Noise. It's like a riddle. Take a west Indian discovery that led to
a ceremony. Okay, so some west indians learned to recognize this
weed and smoke it in a ceremony. Still, it wasn't being cultivated,
so the ceremony was few and far between. Without an enemy, there was
no occasion for the peace pipe. Enter white cultivation and
marketing. The fusion between East and West was horrible on this
point: Cultivating and marketing poison -- and making it *still*
cheaper for Indians in Canada in the bargain! Put it on television
with doctors to endorse it. Make it otherwise look cool with every
high fashion model sucking on it. Put it in damn near every store of
North America, except pharmacies in Alberta.
And getting out of the habit is a whole lot more difficult than any
Chinese finger puzzle, because sometimes you do not get high.
Sometimes, you do not even *like* the smoke, or you feel nothing
from it, SO it's on a variable reinforcement schedule. In basic
psychology, you would learn that variable reinforcement iz the most
persistent of habit-forming paradigms (situations). Even when I did
not like it, I smoked. Combine it with another carcinogen, coffee,
and it's more reliable, perhaps because coffee dilates some blood
vessels, while nicotine constricts others. Combine it with alcohol,
and it's more reliable, because formaldehyde (from carbon monoxide)
competes with the process that degrades ethanaldehyde (from ethanol).
It iz a wonderful sum for hell. Alcohol makes people into assholes
more reliably than any other drug. Coffee rids us of rainforest more
realiably than any other drug. Make a life that starts az a vapour
end in pain.