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Let's go skiing.
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I have no idea.
grapejuice3000+
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newnewschool
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My personal opinion is that the meaning of life is to achieve an elevated, accelerated, or amplified existence. Wether that be after death and going to heaven, or achieving nirvana, or working towards an evolved state while in the universe, I think that life's true meaning is rooted at solving our insatiable desire for improvement.
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taylornicky
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Shush.
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trill
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i think the answer to all of those things is just energy. life is energy and everything to do with it is energy. Your existance is just energy taking a form in something and that energy can never go away. when you die it cant just fizzle out. Everything that happens to you is caused by how you as energy react with other energy around you and the how the energy you are made up of works and is shaped by all the energy you are in contact with or at least that's how i see it Energy is everything.
newnewschool
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Tell kody the meaning of his life was to build something for me to ski on in the summer and he failed so his life is worthless now
wasatch_rat
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grapejuice3000+
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get bent nerd thats boring as shit
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rude.
rockersteez
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I remember my first bowl.
goonsquad
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Is that only a human trait or is it more ingrained and extends to animals and even further to plants? To me it seems plants stand for something different, a tree seems very content with being a tree while a human has so many insecurities and fears that we think we need to improve and answer. I don't see this trait in other animals either but it could exist. An animal seems to know his job and does it.
Other life seems to operate under a basic plan to work/grow reproduce and die, humans are the only ones that seem to have a problem with this plan, we have been in a constant search, a constant need to improve.
Do you see this trait in other life? Am I (and other humans) just self-absorbed in our belief the we really are different? or do our questions and problems and beliefs only mask are true meaning which is simply follow the plan.
Other life seems to operate under a basic plan to work/grow reproduce and die, humans are the only ones that seem to have a problem with this plan, we have been in a constant search, a constant need to improve.
Do you see this trait in other life? Am I (and other humans) just self-absorbed in our belief the we really are different? or do our questions and problems and beliefs only mask are true meaning which is simply follow the plan.
DENIM_CHICKEN
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I think that when we fall asleep we are actually in a real world where anything is possible, and we are actually interacting with others who are dreaming. When we are awake we are in a world where there are laws of nature, and not everything is possible.
Hammyslapwagon
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Bent?
Skibumsmith
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random chaos and coincidence. try to have a good time and leave no trace.
We do not inherit the earth. We borrow it from our children.
We do not inherit the earth. We borrow it from our children.
DIPED_IN_SAUCE
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The closer you are to death the more alive you feel... Until you die
goonsquad
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Do you think that some humans (and everything) can carry more energy than others? Does the spunky young girl carry more energy then the grumpy old man who doesn't leave his house? Is that why we all feel and act different? or is every animal entrusted with the same amount of energy and we're all products of our environment?
life_is_hood
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What does life mean to me? What does life mean?
What does life?
What does?
WHAT?
What does life?
What does?
WHAT?
JakeBarrett
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like, what language do like, deaf people think in?
270on420out
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Dont take life too seriously, because you cant come out of it alive.
Wolfgang.
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I believe there is no meaning to life. That we are all beings, creatures who just so happened to be very sentient, a trait to benefit survival. So maybe, that being said, life is basically survival. You must survive. Otherwise you die. However, in our developed society survival is a given, not much struggle is involved so to speak, allowing us to pursue various other pleasures, allowing us to ponder on diverse goals and ambitions, not strictly related to survival. But there is no meaning to that. Maybe survival has become so easy, that in order to avoid boredom, we give ourselves challenges, IE careers, hobbies, etc, in some sense we need to entertain ourselves. but at the same time we want survival to remain as easy as possible giving us society and all that it entails. So again, for me, there is no important meaning to life, other than entertainment.
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wow cool picture thats really relateable and hip great job hammyslapwagon
Wulfty
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I personally believe life is but an illusion, with the ultimate goal being to dispel it and to ascend into what lies beyond. I feel that to break the illusion, one needs to achieve a higher consciousness brought on by looking into oneself to break the connections that tie us down to what we perceive as 'reality'. Once those connections are broken, the path to ascension is revealed, and we can all be on our way
grapejuice3000+
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its for a good reason, theyre just high and cant discern stupidity from reality
theBearJew
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Alright so. Here is my theory,
1. Drugs
a. Drug use is a fact of daily life for most Americans.
b. Legal drugs use is so common that almost no one recognizes the activity as part of society’s relationship with drugs.
2. Drug Taking as Deviance
a. Drugs include a wide range of substances from aspirin and antacid pills to alcohol; hallucinogenic drugs such as marijuana; stimulants like caffeine, nicotine, and cocaine; mind-altering drugs; mood modifiers; and psychoactive narcotics like heroin that affect the central nervous system.
b. Drug – refers to a substance with a chemical base.
c. The term has certain socially determined and usually negative connotations.
d. The purpose for taking a drug is one criterion of deviant use.
e. Heroin has a stigma attached, where caffeine typically does not.
f. The deviant character of using a particular drug depends on norms, which are socially created standards.
g. Norms can change over time. Therefore, some drugs may be considered non-deviant at one point and then deviant at another. For example, in the nineteenth century, opiates, such as heroin, were commonly used in the US.
3. Social Attitudes About Drugs
a. In the nineteenth century, people began to stigmatize drug addicts.
b. Public opinion began to turn on drug use.
c. Even attitudes towards cigarette smoking has changed significantly over time.
d. Negative sanctions have been created for certain drug-taking behavior.
e. Harrison Act (1914) – legislation passed that prohibited the selling and using of opiates, cocaine, and marijuana without a doctor’s perscription.
f. Marijuana Tax Act (1937) – designed to stamp out use of the substance by subjecting smokers to criminal law proceedings.
g. As of 2006, 12 states have medical marijuana laws.
h. Cocaine – Over the past 20 years, the price of cocaine has dropped and patterns of use began to change from upper-class to working people, students, and others who are now able to afford the once very expensive drug.
i. President Ronald Reagan proclaimed a “War on Drugs” in 1986.
4. The Cocaine Highway
a. The World Bank’s construction of a paved highway through the Huallaga Valley in Peru opened up transportation routes that simplified shipping of coca, which is the basis of cocaine.
b. Today, there are estimates of about 10 million regular cocaine users
5. Social Attitudes About Drugs
a. Questions:
i. What should we do to resolve the drug problem today?
6. Public Policy on the War on Drugs
a. The government’s war on drugs has not addressed the fact that
i. Public concern over drugs varies in faddish cycles
ii. Links exist between drug-taking behavior and the general behavior patterns of people in the U.S.
7. Drug Use
a. Nearly everyone learns to take drugs initially by using legally available medications, remedies, and other drugs.
b. We often refer to pharmacies as “drug stores”
8. Legal Drug Use
a. Alcohol, tobacco, tranquilizers for relaxation, barbiturates for sleeping, and many minor painkilling drugs, such as aspirin.
b. There are many over the counter (OTC) drugs (about 300,000 of them).
c. Best selling prescription drug in the U.S. in 2005 was Lipitor (cholesterol reducer).
9. Illegal Drugs
a. Morphine and heroin, together with semisynthetic and synthetic alternatives such as methadone and ineperidine, make up the class of opiates.
b. These drugs account for the greatest proportion of drug addiction in the U.S.
c. Usually addictive in a very short amount of time.
d. Crack – the more potent derivative of cocaine that is produced by mixing it with water and baking soda or ammonia.
e. Cocaine – around $100 per gram
f. Crack - $10 per nugget
g. Methamphetamine (crank) – a derivative of legitimate amphetamines. Made in “meth labs”
h. Opiates account for the greatest proportion (not number) of drug addicts in the U.S.
i. Most everyone who tries heroin and becomes addicted learns to take the drug from others
j. The UN estimates that 25 percent of those who contracted AIDS did so through intravenous drug use!
10. Illegal Drug Use
a. Marijuana – essentially a social drug.
b. According to Clinard & Meier, marijuana can help establish the pattern of social relations in some groups.
c. It is often assumed, but not substantiated, that marijuana use may lead people towards all kinds of stronger drugs.
d. The “gateway theory” – Marijuana serves as a gateway to the use of other, more serious drugs.
11. The Meaning of Addiction
a. Addiction refers to physical dependence, “an adaptive state of the body that is manifested by physical disturbances when drug use stops” (Milby, 1981: 3).
b. Is everyone an addict of some kind? Anne Wilson Schaef believes that everyone is addicted to something, whether it be T.V., gambling, work, caffeine, relationships, sex, shopping, etc.
c. An addict is someone who experiences distress as a result of not having a drug – alcohol, heroin, or an amphetamine.
d. Some addicts seek help through 12-step programs, such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
i. Other groups include: Narcotics Anonymous, Sex Addicts Anonymous, Emotions Anonymous, Debtors Anonymous, and Workaholics Anonymous
e. Tolerance, dependence, and abstinence syndrome are often discussed in regards or in place of addiction.
f. Drug users often build up a tolerance to the drug, become dependent on the drug, and get withdraw distress is abstaining from using the drug.
12. The Process of Addiction
a. Waldorf (1983) – p.229 (POSSIBLE ESSAY)
b. Experimentation or Initiation
c. Escalation
d. Maintaining or “taking care of business”
e. Dysfunction or “going through changes”
f. Recovery or “getting out of the life”
g. Ex-Addict
13. The Process of Addiction
a. Addicts rely on the drug subculture to:
i. Connect with dealers
ii. Maintain “hustles” (illegally obtaining money to pay for drugs) to secure money for drugs
iii. Protect themselves from outside interference from police and others
14. Society’s Response
a. Criminal sanctions
b. Laws prohibit manufacturing, selling, and using certain drugs
c. Some countries have VERY strict penalties. For example, in Singapore, a conviction for 1 kilogram of hashish or 20 grams of heroin carries an automatic death penalty.
15. Treatment and Self-Help Programs
a. Addiction develops through an essentially social process with effects independent of the physical properties of drugs and their impacts on the human organism.
b. Once an addict is in treatment, there are various programs depending upon the dependency
1. Drugs
a. Drug use is a fact of daily life for most Americans.
b. Legal drugs use is so common that almost no one recognizes the activity as part of society’s relationship with drugs.
2. Drug Taking as Deviance
a. Drugs include a wide range of substances from aspirin and antacid pills to alcohol; hallucinogenic drugs such as marijuana; stimulants like caffeine, nicotine, and cocaine; mind-altering drugs; mood modifiers; and psychoactive narcotics like heroin that affect the central nervous system.
b. Drug – refers to a substance with a chemical base.
c. The term has certain socially determined and usually negative connotations.
d. The purpose for taking a drug is one criterion of deviant use.
e. Heroin has a stigma attached, where caffeine typically does not.
f. The deviant character of using a particular drug depends on norms, which are socially created standards.
g. Norms can change over time. Therefore, some drugs may be considered non-deviant at one point and then deviant at another. For example, in the nineteenth century, opiates, such as heroin, were commonly used in the US.
3. Social Attitudes About Drugs
a. In the nineteenth century, people began to stigmatize drug addicts.
b. Public opinion began to turn on drug use.
c. Even attitudes towards cigarette smoking has changed significantly over time.
d. Negative sanctions have been created for certain drug-taking behavior.
e. Harrison Act (1914) – legislation passed that prohibited the selling and using of opiates, cocaine, and marijuana without a doctor’s perscription.
f. Marijuana Tax Act (1937) – designed to stamp out use of the substance by subjecting smokers to criminal law proceedings.
g. As of 2006, 12 states have medical marijuana laws.
h. Cocaine – Over the past 20 years, the price of cocaine has dropped and patterns of use began to change from upper-class to working people, students, and others who are now able to afford the once very expensive drug.
i. President Ronald Reagan proclaimed a “War on Drugs” in 1986.
4. The Cocaine Highway
a. The World Bank’s construction of a paved highway through the Huallaga Valley in Peru opened up transportation routes that simplified shipping of coca, which is the basis of cocaine.
b. Today, there are estimates of about 10 million regular cocaine users
5. Social Attitudes About Drugs
a. Questions:
i. What should we do to resolve the drug problem today?
6. Public Policy on the War on Drugs
a. The government’s war on drugs has not addressed the fact that
i. Public concern over drugs varies in faddish cycles
ii. Links exist between drug-taking behavior and the general behavior patterns of people in the U.S.
7. Drug Use
a. Nearly everyone learns to take drugs initially by using legally available medications, remedies, and other drugs.
b. We often refer to pharmacies as “drug stores”
8. Legal Drug Use
a. Alcohol, tobacco, tranquilizers for relaxation, barbiturates for sleeping, and many minor painkilling drugs, such as aspirin.
b. There are many over the counter (OTC) drugs (about 300,000 of them).
c. Best selling prescription drug in the U.S. in 2005 was Lipitor (cholesterol reducer).
9. Illegal Drugs
a. Morphine and heroin, together with semisynthetic and synthetic alternatives such as methadone and ineperidine, make up the class of opiates.
b. These drugs account for the greatest proportion of drug addiction in the U.S.
c. Usually addictive in a very short amount of time.
d. Crack – the more potent derivative of cocaine that is produced by mixing it with water and baking soda or ammonia.
e. Cocaine – around $100 per gram
f. Crack - $10 per nugget
g. Methamphetamine (crank) – a derivative of legitimate amphetamines. Made in “meth labs”
h. Opiates account for the greatest proportion (not number) of drug addicts in the U.S.
i. Most everyone who tries heroin and becomes addicted learns to take the drug from others
j. The UN estimates that 25 percent of those who contracted AIDS did so through intravenous drug use!
10. Illegal Drug Use
a. Marijuana – essentially a social drug.
b. According to Clinard & Meier, marijuana can help establish the pattern of social relations in some groups.
c. It is often assumed, but not substantiated, that marijuana use may lead people towards all kinds of stronger drugs.
d. The “gateway theory” – Marijuana serves as a gateway to the use of other, more serious drugs.
11. The Meaning of Addiction
a. Addiction refers to physical dependence, “an adaptive state of the body that is manifested by physical disturbances when drug use stops” (Milby, 1981: 3).
b. Is everyone an addict of some kind? Anne Wilson Schaef believes that everyone is addicted to something, whether it be T.V., gambling, work, caffeine, relationships, sex, shopping, etc.
c. An addict is someone who experiences distress as a result of not having a drug – alcohol, heroin, or an amphetamine.
d. Some addicts seek help through 12-step programs, such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
i. Other groups include: Narcotics Anonymous, Sex Addicts Anonymous, Emotions Anonymous, Debtors Anonymous, and Workaholics Anonymous
e. Tolerance, dependence, and abstinence syndrome are often discussed in regards or in place of addiction.
f. Drug users often build up a tolerance to the drug, become dependent on the drug, and get withdraw distress is abstaining from using the drug.
12. The Process of Addiction
a. Waldorf (1983) – p.229 (POSSIBLE ESSAY)
b. Experimentation or Initiation
c. Escalation
d. Maintaining or “taking care of business”
e. Dysfunction or “going through changes”
f. Recovery or “getting out of the life”
g. Ex-Addict
13. The Process of Addiction
a. Addicts rely on the drug subculture to:
i. Connect with dealers
ii. Maintain “hustles” (illegally obtaining money to pay for drugs) to secure money for drugs
iii. Protect themselves from outside interference from police and others
14. Society’s Response
a. Criminal sanctions
b. Laws prohibit manufacturing, selling, and using certain drugs
c. Some countries have VERY strict penalties. For example, in Singapore, a conviction for 1 kilogram of hashish or 20 grams of heroin carries an automatic death penalty.
15. Treatment and Self-Help Programs
a. Addiction develops through an essentially social process with effects independent of the physical properties of drugs and their impacts on the human organism.
b. Once an addict is in treatment, there are various programs depending upon the dependency
newnewschool
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I think that animals have this trait but to a lesser extent. For example, a chimpanzee might find it more attractive for a potential mate to be smarter, stronger, faster, etc. because when they reproduce their offspring will be better, and may have better children, and so on and so forth. If I had to guess I would say animals are generally inclined to get to the state that we are in. They don't worry about what's after life because they haven't gotten to that level of thought yet.
We on the other hand have and are looking for more than what we already are. Wether we are that different from animals or not doesnt really matter because the small differences there are allow us to have a higher train of thought. Maybe there are higher levels than that which we are on. Maybe we've hit our limit. But I think as a species we have this instinct to improve and that instinct is what separated us from animals early on.
We on the other hand have and are looking for more than what we already are. Wether we are that different from animals or not doesnt really matter because the small differences there are allow us to have a higher train of thought. Maybe there are higher levels than that which we are on. Maybe we've hit our limit. But I think as a species we have this instinct to improve and that instinct is what separated us from animals early on.
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