11.06.07
If your friends are dumb, you are, too.
When your friends are being out-of-their-minds stupid, what’s a dude supposed to do? This is a thing I’m not so familiar with, on account of only having friends who are decidedly not retarded. But I hear these tales from the underground about people that I sort-of-knew, and I’m like “Damn, what the hell is wrong with you?” Is it really that hard to intervene when your friends are being stupid? I mean, assuming that you yourself are of reasonable mental faculties, you ought to be able to tell when your buddy over there is making a mess of things. I’ll admit that it’s probably easier said than done. Interventions ain’t no small thang, and watching your friend fall apart is probably funny in some sick way. Right.
I want to know why people think it’s cool to drink alcohol. I want to know why people think acting the fool and getting your party on is super fly. These are the things I’ve never wanted to understand because I’ve always suspected that the truth would be depressingly retarded. There’s no good reason, is there? It’s all some cowardly attempt to stave off the unpleasantness of reality through the use of self-destructive chemistry. Well screw that. I don’t want to inflate my ego by saying that I’m better than all of those loser boozers, but it has to be said. If I can get by without being high, then why the hell can’t they? Anyway, whatever. I’m mellow, for real. And I didn’t need a bottle of scotch to get here.
squidink said,
November 6, 2007 at 10:51 am
Some people say they don’t need a reason. But that’s dodging the question and doesn’t offer anything at all.
3 said,
November 6, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Get off your robotic german shepard. People drink and bake cupcakes for a multitude of reasons, and it’s not your moral perogative to decide whether or not it’s “funky fresh.”
Okay, you don’t drink. That’s swell. But waving your towel around like you’re somehow better than the untoweled masses simply because you’re dry isn’t going to convince others to give up their showers.
So thanks for calling me and a good amount of my friends idiots, Freud. Your smug superiority and enlightened ideas are sure to be a shining beacon to us dumbass drunken plebes.
Varies said,
November 6, 2007 at 1:54 pm
Haha, Richard told me about your sarcasm. I think it’s great, but I’m gonna have to clean it up a bit for the children.
Varies said,
November 6, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Oh, and this has nothing to do with morality. I have no idea where you’re getting that. I’m also not trying to change anyone, so I didn’t think I was supposed to be persuasive. Perhaps you know what I was trying to get at better than I do? Hmm… if drinking is the key to this kind of clairvoyance, I wouldn’t mind giving the bottle a spin.
3 said,
November 6, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Real classy. Maybe I’ll start speaking in incomprehenisble non sequiturs so you can understand where I’m coming from. Lunar Jaunting is not the kind of fish I tend to beehive, despite what many vampires squawk to their doghouses.
“These are the things I’ve never wanted to understand because I’ve always suspected that the truth would be depressingly retarded. There’s no good reason, is there? It’s all some cowardly attempt to stave off the unpleasantness of reality through the use of self-destructive chemistry.”
So you think you’re better than everyone just because you can’t possibly comprehend the reasoning behind recreatonal drug use? I’m not really sure I understand the entire point of this entire article if it isn’t about changing someone’s “retardedly depressing/depressingly retarded” lifestyle, but maybe I’m giving you too much benefit of the doubt and it really is just a self-righteous tirade against people whose choices in chemical living you disagree with.
It’s cool that you’re off the DANGER DRUGS, man, I’m down with that. I can respect that. But apparently you feel some primal urge to stand on your internet soapbox and proclaim your superiority over all us “loser boozers.” Thanks for proclaiming in no uncertain terms what all my problems are! It’s awesome that you can, in one fell swoop, both insult me and my drunken loser friends and explain to us how to be as enlightened as you! Maybe now I can give up my horrifying lifestyle of doing lines of 100% Colombian yayo off the backs of hookers while shooting heroin into my testicles.
Varies said,
November 6, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Two last things before I step out. There are more problems, but I’m going to limit myself to 2 points. You can have the last word in this discussion after I’m done.
First of all, a lesson in grammar. The past perfect tense has a time expression that starts at an indefinite time in the past and ended some time before the present moment. Thus, the period of time that is spanned by the clause “I’ve never wanted to understand” started and ended before the current time. In other words, though “I never wanted to understand, I currently do.” That’s what is implied by the use of that particular tense and aspect. The point of this little lesson? It’s to say that I DO understand why people would use recreational drugs. I have no problem with that, although I do appreciate your concern. The two opening lines are ambiguous, I suppose, but for clarity’s sake, I’ll just say that they’re not the equivalent of “why do people ___?” Instead, it might be better to read them as “it doesn’t make sense that people ___.”
The other thing I want to say is that I’m not saying I’m better than anyone in any global sense as you are implying. Despite what you might think, I have no problem grasping the fact that I’m not “better” than everyone else. If I had really thought that I was going to be [mis]read like that, I would have said something like this:
If the goal of achieving happiness is either a primary or secondary gain to be derived from drinking, I believe that I am better at achieving the goal than are people who have to pay money and put themselves (and others!) at risk in order to get what I can get easily and harmlessly.
I suppose that the argument could be made that it doesn’t matter how we get to the same point, but I don’t think I can be convinced of the validity of the argument as it pertains to alcohol (don’t bring drugs into this because they weren’t mentioned at all in the original post). There have been far too many tragedies involving alcohol, I’m sorry. To reiterate, I believe that if I can be happy without any alcohol in my life, I have a better way of being happy than someone who uses the drink to feel the same way. If you want to tell me that there are more problems associated with internalised happiness than with drugs and drinking, you’d better give me a good explanation. Otherwise, I don’t see why I shouldn’t be allowed to say that my way is better outside of the fact that not everyone can do it like I do.
Alright, the floor is yours.
Bowman said,
November 6, 2007 at 11:16 pm
If your friends are dumb…
… INVITE ME OVER!
Bowman said,
November 6, 2007 at 11:26 pm
Matthew 9:9-13 (New International Version)
As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.
While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and “sinners” came and ate with him and his disciples.
When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and ’sinners’?”
On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
lulu strikes said,
November 10, 2007 at 9:58 am
sometimes, boy, sometimes.
for people who don’t hide from life, life gets tough.
and why turn down a good time, eh?
sometimes, boy, sometimes,
it’s okay to be selfish, and it’s okay to indulge, and it’s okay to take another shot.
i mean, why is perfection, effeciency, righteousness, correctness, safety, intelligence, etc. so damn important?
i just want to live my life. good times.