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[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower

2. Some people can smoke cigarettes and not be addicted. You know, the people that have 2 or 3 on weekend nights and one or two over the course of the week, and who totally bug the shit out of the people that go into total freak out if they go more than an few hours without a fix.

Sorry about that.

Although if it makes you feel any better I quit three years ago. I tell everyone how difficult it was - going from a half of a pack per week to zero.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
1. She said she hated to be addicted to things. Not that she was not addicted to things.

2. Some people can smoke cigarettes and not be addicted. You know, the people that have 2 or 3 on weekend nights and one or two over the course of the week, and who totally bug the shit out of the people that go into total freak out if they go more than an few hours without a fix.

I am person number two. But I smoke about five a day on weekends. They just taste so great with booze.

The only way to manage caffeine is to maximize the addiction. The more you drink, the more your body adjusts to the stuff and the more you need to get wired. To maximize the kick, you have to space the intake. I fire back a 16 oz at breakfast, then either a 20 oz Diet Coke or a 12 oz coffee at lunch, then a 12 oz Diet Coke around 4 pm, then a 12 oz Diet Coke around 6:30-7:00. that usually keeps me right where I want to be through the day.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
not addicted? did you not earlier post about smoking in the apartment?

I have the odd cigarette (once a month or so, maybe less, usually if I have a drink). It's like an indulgence. On Monday I had one in the apartment. My husband hates the smell of regular cigarettes so I can't have one in the apt unless he is away.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Sorry about that.

Although if it makes you feel any better I quit three years ago. I tell everyone how difficult it was - going from a half of a pack per week to zero.

As I mentioned in some other context here, I actually have never smoked tobacco. But, if I did, I would probably become addicted, and you would bug the shit out me.

[barely_legal]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
The way I see it, we're all going to the same place in the end regardless of what building we do or do not pray in, so hating anyone for the religion he was born into seems one of the silliest things I can imagine.

You cannot believe how many people get pissed when I say the above, which is usually my pat response to any religion dicsussion. A lot of people really believe they're going somehwre better than the guy dwon the street who's of a different faith or is an atheist. They get pretty damn indignant at the notion that we're all really the same no matter how try to differentiate ourselves. Its funny, because these same people decry racism, yet a lot of them think the Sikh who lives next door is a pagan who "won't make it into the kingdom."

I recall asking a nun as a kid "Why doesn't my cat go to heaven?" She said Heaven was exclusively for humans. I'm still waiting for the supporting cite.

We all pray to the same God. Anyone who thinks he's got better ticket waiting at the end of this gig because he said a few extra hail marys or got some ashes is a king clown.

From this post I can't tell if you are an atheist or a undifferentiated monotheist (is that a word?). Isn't saying that we are all praying to the same God just another way of saying that other people (who either don't pray to any God or who pray to many gods) are wrong?

I can't believe I'm trying to engage Sebby in a religious discussion. Someone shoot me now.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by barely_legal
I can't believe I'm trying to engage Sebby in a religious discussion. Someone shoot me now.

I would, but then I'd go to hell.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
The way I see it, we're all going to the same place in the end regardless of what building we do or do not pray in, so hating anyone for the religion he was born into seems one of the silliest things I can imagine.

You cannot believe how many people get pissed when I say the above...

Actually, I'm something of a universalist myself by predeliction - I think (note: I didn't say believe, 'cause I'm not sure I'd go that far, but to the extent I believe any of it, this is what I consider to be the necessary final outcome) that everyone, Christian, atheist, animist, wiccan, saint, sinner, evildooer, whatever, will eventually be "saved," i.e.: returned to oneness with God, and that this resolution is necessary for the apocalypse (aka end of the world, aka final fulfillment of God's plan, whatever). Some people have further to go than others, but since human temporal perception is merely an illusion resulting from our sub-divine state, that doesn't really matter. Ultimate convergence with the godhead is a necessary outcome if you believe that everything, ultimately, eminates from God.

That tends not to be a very popular opinion, either, with much of anyone.

Glad to exile the McDonalds commercial from your mind Fugee - I'd forgotten Britten set that poem, now it's stuck in my head, too.

Originally posted by barely_legal
From this post I can't tell if you are an atheist or a undifferentiated monotheist (is that a word?). .

He is a monotonist, and that my friends is your Bilmore of the Day

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I recall asking a nun as a kid "Why doesn't my cat go to heaven?" She said Heaven was exclusively for humans. I'm still waiting for the supporting cite.

Another Simpson's reference? Sebby the coach potato.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
He is a monotonist, and that my friends is your Bilmore of the Day

Funny, that seemed more like a Paigow of the Day to me.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
He is a monotonist, and that my friends is your Bilmore of the Day

I just ride the wave. I'm looking hard, but its all beach break so far.

In a rut. Throw a brother a rope. Anybody had anal sex lately?

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Another Simpson's reference? Sebby the coach potato.

Is this a potato manufactured by Coach? Can that be found in the purse or the shoe department?

[bilmore]

Originally posted by spookyfish
I would, but then I'd go to hell.

Try to get into the Baptist hell. The music's better.

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I just ride the wave. I'm looking hard, but its all beach break so far.

In a rut. Throw a brother a rope. Anybody had anal sex lately?

I might have but I was so loaded I couldnt tell which slot he was in.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Ultimate convergence with the godhead is a necessary outcome if you believe that everything, ultimately, eminates from God.

Composting is the most primal expression of this philosophy.