<p>I can respect you Axion, even if you are buzz killington. Besides, he’s the man.</p>
<p>You can be “socially healthy and happy and having fun” without getting totally ****faced or doing drugs. If you wanna do that then that’s fine by me, as long as it doesn’t affect me.</p>
<p>Haha… I honestly don’t know how you all have the perception that I’m a proponent of drug-induced fun. I’m not opposed to the idea generally, but I am if it hinders interaction with people. In the end, if you did nothing productive on your chemical high, that you don’t even remember, and if you didn’t even share an experience with other people, all you did was waste time.</p>
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If you’ve got a plan, it’s time to start practicing execution :).<br>
…of the plan.</p>
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<p>So what are you waiting for? ;)</p>
<p>The thing about drugs, is that they bring people together.</p>
<p>Drinking obviously brings people together through parties.</p>
<p>Most people smoke together. When you do shrooms/acid, etc. you’re probably going to want other people there to trip with you.</p>
<p>I was realy anti-drug and **** in high school (anti using them, always believed they should be fully legalized). But once you get in college, and all of a sudden it’s your manager or some brilliant student asking you to smoke…you’re going to consider it, when in high school, you might have been a bit scared to do it because all of the people who smoked, etc. seemed like losers (and were) for the most part.</p>
<p>I think you guys are weird. I’ve never drank or did drugs, but that doesn’t mean I don’t know how to have fun, ****, and eat cupcakes, too.</p>
<p>ANTI-DRUG FTW :D.</p>
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Aw come on, you can’t censor out f.u.c.k! That’s the most grammatically universal word in the dictionary! -_-;</p>
<p>I go to a CC and I don’t mind not having that experience. In fact, when I transfer I plan to either find a place alone or commute. I have read some of the dorm room horror stories of drunken knuckle draggers blasting music and running around the halls at 4am. If people want to behave in such a manner, fine, but I would rather not want to put myself in that type environment.</p>
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<p>The plan isn’t as simple as it would seem.</p>
<p>First, I will have to find the right girl…which can present a challenge since I am rather picky and (as I will admit) my “standards” would eliminate a large percentage of the female population my own age.</p>
<p>And no, I am not going to lower my standards…I rather be single than be married with someone and be depressed. I have already stated on the virginity thread that I would not date someone who was not a virgin.</p>
<p>knock yourself out dude</p>
<p>If you want to date someone who’s a virgin start looking now. The older you get the fewer they’ll be.</p>
<p>I feel for the op somewhat. I’ve hopped around from a 4-year university to a community college back to a 4-year university. I’ve enjoyed my time, but dang, it gets old.</p>
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<p>Drugs and alcohol also kill people, ruin lives, and ruin families. How many kids don’t have moms or dads because of drugs and alcohol? How many families have been split up because of this? How many innocent people have died because of drunk drivers? How many people have ruined their health and future due to drugs and alcohol?</p>
<p>There are plenty of ways to bring people together that doesn’t involve ruining lives. You don’t have to choose to do drugs or drinks. Someone asks? Just say no. Just because your manager does drugs or drinks doesn’t mean you should. Saying no is not about being afraid, it’s about being smart.</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>Cheeseburgers kill people too. So does skydiving and surfing. And sports.</p>
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<p>Because everyone that decides to have a casual drink with their friends instantly becomes a raging life destroying alcoholic. Save your ridiculous little rant, nobody wants to hear it.</p>
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I kind of feel the same way… And I pretty much have no access to a setting (besides hardcore shows that I can’t stand and don’t fit in at) with HS girls, where the girls aren’t slutty (and thus, not even close to virgins) or where I don’t seem like a creeper :). Similarly, I don’t know of a setting with guys who are both attractive and interested. I don’t like manly men, and the boys are always taken :(.</p>
<p>Btw, I’m just making excuses. I don’t put myself out there enough on any front.</p>
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Guns kill people. Are you absolutely going to refuse any offer ever to hold a gun, because you’re smart and don’t want to kill yourself or somebody else? It’s ridiculous to hold such a grudge against drugs or alcohol that you would never even try them or occasionally party with their aid. You should work on concentrating your grudge. It’s the irresponsible, overuse of drugs and alcohol that kills and ruins lives.</p>
<p>October I used to think like you. Then I realized that for most substances, as long as you keep it in moderation (based on YOUR body), it’s fine. Alcohol? A few beers won’t do much to me, so I keep it at that. I don’t do weed not out of “moral superiority” but because I don’t want it coming back to haunt me during a background investigation. Weed’s the only “hard drug” I’d ever do though. </p>
<p>Things like cocaine and meth and PCP ARE quite dangerous, and there’s really no moderation for any of them (although of those three, cocaine is the least destructive).</p>
<p>Instead of being against any substance intake you ought to decry substance abuse. A guy who has a beer isn’t a threat to anyone. A guy who has six beers and five shots of vodka and then goes driving IS a threat.</p>
<p>DCHurricane, there is moderation for everything. There are safe doses of any drug, even if the “safe” dose is well below the typical recreational dose (which is not really the case anyway; you are just misinformed). Also, calling cannabis a “hard” drug is laughable.</p>
<p>Sorry, I just don’t like to see misinformation go uncorrected.</p>
<p>I dont think that stereotypical “college experience” prepares you for real life
I think what prepares you for real life is realizing that partying all the time and not being organized is what will make you FAIL in real life</p>
<p>Wow. This must be one of the more “intense” threads out there.</p>
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<p>As far as I have been able to observe: Most people conform to social norms in College.</p>
<p>If the University you go to has a social atmosphere revolving around lots of partying/drugs/alcohol/etc. then most people are going to be going out every weekend Freshman Year conforming to the norm. I am not saying one way of life is right and the other way of life is wrong; I am just writing down simply what I have observed.</p>
<p>Then(VERY very rarely) you will find the type of people who simply do whatever they want. These type of people rarely pay attention to the glamor of what is happening in the world around them and instead do what they want to do. These people are rare; especially in College.</p>
<p>As for me, I’ve never had any desire to do drugs/alcohol. Not because I am super religious(I’m atheist, just to note) but because I could never quite see the point of putting these substances in my body. And I don’t see the point in altering my mind either.</p>
<p>If other people want to do these things I really just don’t think I care as long as they don’t care about my decision not to do them. </p>
<p>I believe that this world would be a better place without these substances(Waits for the rant); but the ends didn’t really justify the means when the disaster of prohibition happened sometime around the 1920’s. So, since people are never going to change it is more than likely more effective to invest your time in something which I can change and improve.</p>
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<p>Justify this.</p>