Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
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before i met those lot i thought they'd be a bunch of dreadlocked hippies that smoked, set things on fire ,and drank a lot of tea but then when i met them....oh wait (PyroWill)
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
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fly fairies, fly high, fly wide and take no prisoners !!!!!!
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
Written by: ben-ja-men
as for zero tolerance and the war on drugs, do u think that people would sell drugs if it was a no strikes policy that carried the death penalty?
Written by: ben-ja-men
charles i agree that improving the way one carries oneself is an excellent way to to live, i disagree though that individuals acting only to better themselves will change the world while the current values of society are in place.
Written by: ben-ja-men
spanner the biggest difference between this system and welfare is that it ensures that everyone recieves all the basic necessities and the oppertunity to pursue whatever it is that they want to. it would also mean that everyone has access to all the required materials to pursue what they want to do. it would mean that when the time came your son would be able to study whatever he was interested at a higher degree level in without having to worry about things how to pay the rent, buy books, afford a social life, not to mention paying for the degree itself.
as for the appropriacy of the basic necessities being assessed, housing would be such that there where enough bedrooms for parents and children, a seperate sound proof study area with soft music playing the background, seperate living, dining, artistic endours space. food clothing etc would all be interlinked with schooling system/people provided with information and facilities to make choices about what they want.
Written by: ben-ja-men
some people might argue that drugs are a spiritual experience, having never experienced them and having no desire to i cant really comment on if it is or isnt. personally i feel that if drugs are a spiritual experience and enlightenment can be reached through travelling along a path of experience, that having such a spiritual experience through drugs is like jumping halfway along one of the paths or somewhere near one of the correct paths for a short period of time then jumping back to the start. with out having walked the path theres no point of reference so that you can return to that place as its brought about by an external stimulus rather than an internal state. i am of the opinion that anything that can be experienced via drugs can be experienced naturally through meditation.
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Written by: Josh
People will always believe that they are 'special' and that it wont happen to them. Totalitarianism is not the answer.
Written by: Josh
Sounds like a voucher system to me instead of a monetary one, which I think wouldnt be a bad idea, although you would need unhackable central control over distribution cuz otherwise youd get a black market in vouchers emerging.
Written by: Josh
I think you undervalue the potential learning and healing effects of some drugs Ben. And you certainly MUST outlaw alcohol if you are going to outlaw any mind altering drugs, as its blatantly the most destructive (although Nicotine must give it a run for its money).
Written by: Josh
The prohibition culture actually leads to more kids doing drugs in more damaging ways.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
Fair luna bright, fair luna moon
it shines at night but fades too soon
fair luna moon, fair luna bright
forever we dance
we dance under starlight
Written by: ben-ja-men
i disagree to give an example at adelaide uni the undergrads have to pay for photocopying and printing, when the credit machine malfunctioned everyone abused it because suddenly something they had to pay for previously was free, ppl printed book and all sorts of rubbish. The postgraduates however have free printing and photocopying and because the facility is always there for them to use free of charge they only use it when they need to rather than trying to take advantage of it.
Written by: Josh
I think you undervalue the potential learning and healing effects of some drugs Ben. And you certainly MUST outlaw alcohol if you are going to outlaw any mind altering drugs, as its blatantly the most destructive (although Nicotine must give it a run for its money).
Written by: ben-ja-men
can you elaborate on what sort of potential learning your talking about?
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As for the healing effects i think that it is possibly an alternative means of achieving the same results of voice dialogue like in the example with the woman with chronic stomach pain stepping out of her primary subpersonality into her disowned self, instead of doing it via voice dialogue using for example cannabis as an external means to bring about the change.
i agree that alcohol in excess is very damaging, in moderation it has positive health benifits, i think by teaching children the effects that it can have both positive and negative and a shift in social values will change the perception of "coolness" and result in people not abusing it.
Written by: Josh
The prohibition culture actually leads to more kids doing drugs in more damaging ways.
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Help! My personality got stuck in this signature machine and I cant get it out!
Written by: Josh
That seems like a very limited example. Im not sure of this but AFAIK, during war and in times of ration there are always underground blackmarkets in rations. The way that I see it, if it was unregulated, whats the difference between how its done now and how you are suggesting its done?
Written by: Josh
And additionally, its not in the interests of the economic powers in our society to allow anyone and everyone unlimited access to education, after all, people may not be happy with the inequity if they realise that as human beings they are entitled to more.
Written by: Josh
While I agree that it is possible to use meditation to achieve all sorts of states of consciousness that are normally achieved through drug use, meditation requires far longer and far more committment from the subject, I would suggest perhaps prohibitively more IMHO.
Written by: Josh
Bear in mind that many people all around the world who are deeply into meditation have used psychotropic drugs to enhance their meditative states. I would go as far as saying that medice men / women are the people who have been the pioneers of the psychedelic drug culture.
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I just dont see how you can justify banning some addictive / damaging drugs and not others. How is it that you allow people to have control over one way of altering their mind state, and then prohibit others? Meditation can surely replace the affects of alcohol too no doubt :P
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
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