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[World Traveler]

[PatrickGHBusan]

Well WT congrats on your 30 day challenge of staying off this board. Glad you succeeded.

You sure busted out however, like a person who was on a forced diet or fasting that then binges and wolfs down 5 cheesecakes! I mean you posted left, right and centre on your 31st day...well done.

As a reference below is your challenge announcement of September 20th:

[Jodami]

Well, well, well.

Looks like World Traveler is now addicted, to doing 30 day challenges.

[augustine]

A distinct honorable mention I initially missed, forgot about saying that. I did use a particular term a little too liberally for some folks the other day, but that now never existed, apparently. That wasn't the intention anyway. Mexico come Friday though, bogged down at the girlfriend's place until then and she has already bitched at me hardcore for peeing on the fence behind her apartment earlier while she was in the shower for an hour (shouldn't have admitted it)... so all hell could break loose between now and closing time.

[TheUrbanMyth]

[World Traveler]

Dave's ESL Cafe. The hardest addiction to break. (But less life destroying than alcohol.)

P.S.- You should smoke a blunt and drop some acid, TUM. Same goes for you, PGHB.

[Steelrails]

They might have a bad trip...Better sometimes to advise people to unwind with a simple scotch and cigar.

[TheUrbanMyth]

[World Traveler]

It's about expanding your consciousness to ultimately become a better person. Acid destroys one's ego actually. (It makes a person less arrogant.)

[TheUrbanMyth]

[Steelrails]

Since there are good people who don't do drugs, and bad people who do do drugs, and since the rate of good people or bad based on those who use drugs is about the same for users and non-users, then I am forced to conlude that drugs have little impact on making you a better person.

Good people who do drugs (at least ones like pot or shrooms) are still probably going to be good people. Bad people who do those are likely to remain bad. A few bad people might become better and a few good people might become worse. A few good people might become better on drugs and a few bad people might become worse.

I don't really see overwhelming evidence to support the conclusion that someone is a good person based upon whether or not they choose to consume drugs and I must state that it is apparent that those who claim people's lives would be better if they did drugs or that that would make them better people lack sufficient evidence to support their claim and have failed to adequately detail what makes a "good lifer". Furthermore, their claim would imply that cultures and people, either those who lived now or those in the past, who did not consume drugs, would fail to produce any 'good' people. A view I must question.

Why not just stick to- I enjyoed my experiences with recreational drugs and they were a positive influence in my life.

That's all that needs to be said.

[edwardcatflap]

[Old fat expat]

Sounds OK Steelrails. i might frame it this way though:

There are 5 big traits measured on personality inventories. One of these traits is openness to new experiences (others being conscientiousness, neuroticism, agreeableness, and extroversion).

It is not the use of recreational drugs that makes these people open and more accepting, as WT is suggesting. I think use of drugs is an outcome of the underlying trait of openness. Those on the opposite side of this scale are rule followers and not inclined to be open to new experiences. As rule followers, they really like to impose these rules on others.

Note I said recreational use; I am not talking about drug abuse or addiction.

I conclude with a toast:
Here's to my experiences with recreational drugs and them being a positive influence in my life.

[World Traveler]

[hiamnotcool]