Marinus

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  1. Marinus
    Caffeine is a drug. So whenever I drink my morning coffee, undesirables flock to my neighbourhood, I stop to care, and my inescapable blight fucks up everything around me? AFAICS it's just you having trouble to understand the concept of drugs.
  2. Marinus
    Being well-informed. I agree with you that seeing someone destroy their life with drugs is a hard but very valuable lesson, btw. It's one of the reasons why I don't do illegal drugs myself any more.
  3. Marinus
    Part of its popularity is probably due to the fact that pot-dealers, unlike barmen, don't ask for your ID when they sell their drug. Legal drugs also means that the government has control over who gets to the stuff.
  4. Marinus
    Personal experience is not the best way to form an opinion, but I do understand where you're coming from. I've seen how devastating it can be too, still these are the extreme cases, that won't disappear because you outlaw whatever they can't handle.
  5. Marinus
    Alcohol causes social and mental harm on a very large scale in Western society. Yes, pot isn't innocent, and like alcohol it's seems to be especially destructive to the developing teen brain, but it's rather clear which one of the two is worst in all three aspects you mention.
  6. Marinus
    I think you're being too negative about drugs. There's people that never use drugs, and there's people that get destroyed by them, but the large majority in the middle uses their drug(s) of choice in moderation.
  7. Marinus
    I agree with you that drugs would be much cheaper, but still the government could (and should) make much money of off sin taxes. If for every average dose of drugs five dollars rolls into the American Treasury, that's going to be one giant green tsunami of free money. I read that Americans manage to squeeze around 9 dollars of sintax out of a pack of cigarettes, so 5 dollars isn't unrealistic, and probably on the low side.
  8. Marinus
    I don't use illegal drugs, so I don't want to add anything to the equation. Drugs are already part of the equation, and have always been part of it. The War on Drugs and other attempts to eliminate drugs from society turned out to be exercises in futility that had no noticeable result on the actual drugs consumption. I don't want to waste any more money to fight a war that can't be won and makes the situation worse than it is.
  9. Marinus
    That's because it's no complete legalization. I think only in Cali and only as a prescription drugs, am I right? Look at the completely legalized drugs: ever wondered where the alcohol, nicotine and caffeine Mafia are? They don't exist. There's some petty smuggling going on between countries with different sin taxes, but that's about it.
  10. Marinus
    If it's all the same to you, if the last pillar that keeps the Euro from collapsing (AKA Germany) fails, I'll take my little piece of modified swamp and go in whatever direction PanzerMerkel goes. My understanding of economics isn't all that good, but blaming this whole mess on the Germans seems a bit odd.
  11. Marinus
    yes f.e. witchcraft = rebellion.... A prime example of religious new-speak which is a form of obfuscation. Finish your sentence please, that is, if you can.
  12. Marinus
    Actually I read that part of the discussion. Beowulf was asking inconvenient questions about witchcraft as it appears in the bible, and you tried to dodge it with standard religious obfuscation techniques. The "I'm older so I'm wiser" seemed to me as a rather desperate attempt to claim dominance in the discussion. The other observation I made that you seem to have a need to confirm yourself all the time. If you are so old and wise and confident of your achievements, why don't you just show it? But all I hear is "I'm old and wise, and successful and hyper-intelligent" without the posts you would expect to go with such claims.
  13. Marinus
    You sound very insecure here, but in general you seem to have the need to reaffirm yourself. On the internet of all places. Other than that: your claim you're wiser than someone because you're older than him, just isn't very... wise.
  14. Marinus
    There's no belief system involved in what I consider my spirituality. The things to which it applies are all very real. Nature, the universe, humanity. I don't claim anything about it either, except how it influences me. I enjoy it, but its a personal thing. A brilliant concept, isn't it? That's about the only meaning I give to it, it's beautiful and very enjoyable. True that, spirituality is very personal. Thats why religion pollutes it's pure form. That depend. beliefs around spirituality can be very irrational or even stupid. But then again, as long as the other keeps them out of my life I see no need to bother them with my opinion on it.
  15. Marinus
    Last time I checked, Talibanistan is still near the bottom of the food chain and they also don't seem to adapt very well to changing circumstances.
  16. Marinus
    da fuq?
  17. Marinus
    Again a better attempt to get my point across on a less snarky way. Spirituality is just the wonder and awe about the mystery that this universe is. It's naturally occurring in most humans and spirituality is not the proper name for it, it's just the name religious people made up for it. I only use it for lack of a better term. Religion isn't spirituality, it prostitutes spirituality and often devaluates it and dumbs it down. While the feelings of wonder and awe about the mystery is often approached in a religious fashion, it can be approached in a philosophical materialistic way, but that doesn't make it something else. If anything, in it's purest form it's much more powerful than the quality-free mass product religion usually offers. The Hubble Deep Field has offered me more spiritual satisfaction than all the tales of the Christian Sheep God in the world ever could.
  18. Marinus
    Nothing like an intense Saturday night session with a hot-blooded Latino Dom to alter your perspective on life, huh?
  19. Marinus
    I don't think your one-dimensional view on spirituality has anything to do with the reality of it. One can base it completely on reality and keep it void of rituals and the supernatural like I do. Granted: spirituality is a horrible term to refer to the phenomenon, but I experience spiritual feelings and thoughts [Warning Cliché Ahead!] the night sky for example.
  20. Marinus
    That's the same people that "Love death more than we love life" isn't it? Just sit back and watch how kind evolution is to them.
  21. Marinus
    I don't really care what spiritually in your humble opinion is. No it isn't, this statement is about just as silly as claiming that driving is a one dimensional activity.
  22. Marinus
    While evil is sometimes in disguise, it usually is as subtle as 1000 dead Jews in a gas chamber or a plane in a skyscraper. Still some people are burning Harry Potter books, cause Satan might hide in those.
  23. Marinus
    Get in line please. There's a line several miles long of people that warn me for all kinds of stuff like cigarettes, stem cells, alcohol, drugs, masturbation, super-AIDS, UFO's, the New World Order. ouija boards, the polar shift, a Yellowstone eruption, the Aurocalypse, airborne Ebola, Q-fever, Muslims, genetic engineering, Jews, the Chinese, Gays, astroid impacts, Harry Potter, porn, violent computer games, the rising sea-level, Eastern European immigrants, the White Man, multiculturalism, fascism, communism, capitalism, nanotechnology, and of course Christianity.
  24. Marinus
    Even if it was eternal bliss as some texts suggest. I can't imagine how boring that must be. Everything is effortless, risk-free and perfect. Only thinking about it makes me depressed.
  25. Marinus
    For a long time I've thought the same thing: that spirituality is (a form of) irrationality. But it isn't, the wonder I feel when watching nature and contemplating on my place in the universe is also spirituality and maybe even its purest form. I often ask myself if the childish, imagination-free tales from the holy Books are able to induce the same feelings of wonder and awe nature induces in me. If there is a God, we should be reading his greatest work, and that's not some dusty old tome from the first century, but the Universe.