People drink and do drugs to feel good right? It's all about that Euphoria; the presence of pleasure, the absences of pain. But what if drunk was our natural state of mind, would we get sober for fun? I guess sobriety would feel like we're using the other 90% of our brain. Just like in Limitless, and how many describe when they abuse adderall. I feel like sobriety would just bring this overwhelming sense of clarity. If it did, would that mean that being drunk brings clarity to us now? Think about it, all that comes out of drunk people is raw emotion. And as they say, a drunk man's words is a sober man's thoughts. Maybe we're just more in touch with our subconscious when we're drunk. Can we really consider that impaired? Anyways, this idea that we get this euphoric feeling from drinking, the same euphoric feeling that we could have gotten from being sober if drunk was our permanent state of being, makes me wonder what we really are. What if we're all drugged and our brains are actually impaired??? We would never even know.
--written "under the influence".
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Faith
This Excerpt from The End of Faith by Sam Harris is nothing short of perfection.
"The belief that certain books were written by god leaves us powerless to address the most potent source of human conflict, past and present. How is it that the absurdity of this idea does not bring us, hourly, to our knees? It is safe to say that few of us would have thought so many people could believe such a thing, if they did not actually believe it. Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by god or that a specific software was coded by him. Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other over rival interpretations of Star Wars or Window 98. Could anything- anything- be more ridiculous? And yet, this is no more ridiculous than the world we are living in."
"The belief that certain books were written by god leaves us powerless to address the most potent source of human conflict, past and present. How is it that the absurdity of this idea does not bring us, hourly, to our knees? It is safe to say that few of us would have thought so many people could believe such a thing, if they did not actually believe it. Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by god or that a specific software was coded by him. Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other over rival interpretations of Star Wars or Window 98. Could anything- anything- be more ridiculous? And yet, this is no more ridiculous than the world we are living in."
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