There are some who think that ADD is a commercial exploitation of common symptoms of poor diet, poor lifestyle and poor self image
those of us who have experianced it know it is very real.
this isnt just about being jumpy etc. there are several ways in wich my brain simply doesnt work the way yours does.
My point was that although it may seem like an "escape" or a "safety valve" it isn't really, it is a "crutch". Such escapes just like excessively drinking alcohol are totally unneccesary, what you need is to stop escaping and start facing and feeling it all, the good and the bad.
...... please, spare me the nancy reagan rethoric.
i allready told you i was BORN with these problems and they aint gonna go away if i quit anything, unless its breathing alltogether.
seriously, every1 has their crutches/escapes (realy the same thing), and just becuase yours doesnt come out of a siggarette doesnt make you superior in any way.
I understand that some shamanistic traditions connect particular spirits with the use of particular plants. In those traditions significant care is taken to control or not offend the spirits invoked by use of the plants.
I therefore hypothesize that use of cannabis without due regard for connected spirits might be spiritually harmful in some situations
This can be tested by clairvoyant observation of the aura around the head of various users
Some of the Masons I know are clairvoyant
the best cold reader in the world is not going to get me to take any1's word over my own research.
the things u people come up with to fault me for using the word 'stoner' but once is staggering in view of the list of problems i posted.
why are you all so focused on this one thing?
i allready toldyou none of my problems are caused by it and none of them will go away no matter how sober i live my life.
and i choose not to, wich is a whole lot healthyer then say the people who jump out of perfectly good airplanes or drive insanely fast cars in order to alter their conciousness.
how is mine so much worse then that because i happen to get mine out of a sigarette instead of a bottle or some shiney expensive machine?
What do you mean you can't find a job that doesn't make you feel utterly useless? You are only useless if you don't do the job and do it well.
well the thing is like i said i dont agree with society.
i think society is severely psychotic and 75% of the crap we do is utterly pointless and serves only to complicate matters.
have you seen the world we live in?
can you honestly look around you and say that this is what was intended?
well i cant, and i refuse to support something that i believe is killing us.
btw thats a nice veiled way of saying the same thing everybody else in here is saying, but as i allready told you that will solve NONE of my problems.
Antonius writes -
i assure you, none of my problems are caused by my smoking of cannabis.
why would u jump to that conclusion?
How can you possibly be so sure?
well for one i had these problems long before i ever started smoking.
i was born with them.
it is only now in my adult life that they have become problematic.
also i know myself and i know the 'drug' im taking.
i get a strong feeling here that none of you realy know
the 'drug' you are condemning.
also i dare call you hypochrits if you want to pretend you dont have your escapes.
just because you can spend thousands of dollars on vactions for your escape doesnt make you moraly superior to me in any way.
If you don't see the harm in drug taking why mention it?
because its part of who i am.
i only used the word stoner ONCE for crying out loud!
and only as a means of descrition
you are the ones focusing in on it.
and you have yet to explain why...
anyways quitting cannabis isnt going to change the way i feel about society.
So how is it that you are at interested in FM?
like everybody else i want to take an active hand in my own development, and masonry would provide the structure i desperatly need, as ADD leaves me unable to apply that to my life.
see dicipline was never the problem.
i was born a loner and a rebel and it was evident since pre-school.
Nope - that's another cop out - and Freemasonry is not a rebels nest - you'll feel even more alone in a Lodge.
how the F@ck do you know?!!
have u talked to my family?
were u there???
how DARE you make assumptions as to who or what i am?!
so who the hell said i wanted to join masonry to be a rebel?
that would be kind of a cotnradiction in terms wouldnt it?
didnt i allready tell you i was NOT stupid?
no the reason i am considering it is because it may help me grow the other way and help me find peace with humanity in some way.
or perhaps i need to do that before joining a loge.
THAT was the question.
the problem is most likely ADD.
We all have our problems - what's so special about your's?
who the hell said it was special?
i cant realy expct any answers from any1 if i dont properly describe the problem now can i?
what the hell kind of a question is that anyways?
i smoke cannabis to get relief from my frustrations
FM is not an escape path from society or from ourselves.
like i said before, im wondering if masonry can help me lern to deal with the things that make me want to smoke cannabis.
anyways surely you are not suggesting i cannot enjoy cannabis in my private life and be a mason
Yes - that is what is being suggested.
every loge has a bar were alcohol is served
Yes - but we are not addicted as you seem to be.
how DARE YOU call me an addict?!!
where the hell do u get the nerve??
i have NOT ONE SINGLE TIME made any kind of suggestion WHATSOEVER as to the quantity and regularity of my smoking!
that is entirely uncalled for and way over the line.
i thought you people were supposed to be civilised??
let he who is without sin cast the first stone.