My brother did the same thing. He's a lazy guy and still is...but decided that the excuse he was using..a no drive 'tool'.. only held him back further than he wanted to be held and doing absolutely nothing was boring, stoned or not. Any habitual behavior pattern/ ingrained thought loop is hard to break. Fingernails aren't addictive, but it can take some doing to stop chewing. Many people I know use pot to 'attain' drive. Smoke a doobie and go DO something! [Doesn't slow them down...or maybe it slows them down enough to find a direction to go in? Sheer genius and focus don't always coincide and this particular group of whom I speak are shear genius. Pot seems to bring them down to a functional level that's near human, where 'humans' would wind up focusing on a fly spec or something.] Perhaps it narrows their focus down to where they can decide 'what' to do? [And in some cases with people having scattered personality problems, who to be...and pot doesn't have the nasty side effects that the 'meds' do.] That tells be that it's individual qualities of the 'person' that determines what the drug does in their lives and pot is a 'tool' that's used for many things. Hammers can build up or bash apart. If dropping the hammer allows you to stop being a carpenter so you can go sailing, so be it. Both ways, it's a means to an end, not the end itself. For those of us who find interference to our intents and desires, we just don't participate to any great degree and habit never becomes an issue. But taking any change of intent and desire 'leap' will find a convenient barrior, be it a substance or whatever is being used to stay put in a familier pattern.
You used the Navy to break free of yourself and it worked for you. Good call. One person I know, who was in the Navy and got fragged in Beruit by a Russian grenade, uses pot to 'not be' THAT paranoid self. Many other combat Vets I know do the same and that works for them. I find it to be the #1 treatment for conjestive cough beating every OTC remedy out there by miles. [That covers about one toke every 5 or 10 years] But I have a paranoid anti-social hermit side that the pot tool brings out. Ode At 09:06 PM 7/8/2005 -0400, you wrote: > > I wasted (no pun intended) 5 years of my life smoking dope. It may not >"make you lazy" but it sure does rob you of your drive. I found I was >motivated to do nothing but look for the next joint. FINALLY after 5 years >I suddenly realized "THIS IS YOUR LIFE" and if I didn't *do* something it >would be my life for the rest of my years. I joined the Navy and kicked the >habit. It was difficult to do. I am glad I left that lifestyle behind. > >Personally, I don't care if weed is legalized or not. People will find a >way to get high (legal or not) of they are so inclined. Keeping it illegal >doesn't stop it. > >Lori > >-----Original Message----- >From: Ode Coyote [mailto:[email protected]] > >..it doesn't make people lazy, it gives lazy people something to do for an >excuse. >If it messes up someone who isn't lazy..like me..they just don't do it. > >Ode > > > >-- >The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > >Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > >To post, address your message to: [email protected] >Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > >Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] >OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > >List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.10/43 - Release Date: 7/6/2005 > > > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.10 - Release Date: 7/6/2005 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.10 - Release Date: 7/6/2005
