GlitterInfection

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GlitterInfection,

You ended up agreeing with me in that last sentence.

Disregarding advice you know is good already because you don’t respect the source is an emotional, not logical, choice.

GlitterInfection, (edited )

Well, OK, sure. Irrationality is logical in that it’s human.

That’s one great reason to learn self awareness and mindfulness.

GlitterInfection,

Dismissing good advice because the person who gave it to you has flaws is the epitome of logical behavior!

GlitterInfection,

Just like a cat. You get it a treat but all it wants to do is sit in the box!

GlitterInfection, (edited )

The problem is there’s only like 5 actually rich people out there, hoarding all the wealth. The poor wolverines will starve if we don’t make more.

Trickle down economics is about blood.

GlitterInfection,

Hello purple mug!

GlitterInfection,

Cartoonists!

GlitterInfection,

Australia.

GlitterInfection,

Yeah, well, I don’t want to suck your eyes.

GlitterInfection,

Now he can sleep with all of her friends!

GlitterInfection, (edited )

Hell 2: This Time it’s Personal!

GlitterInfection,

Oh, then I’m sorry to say I changed it to an up-vote after commenting out of guilt. Now I feel guilty no matter what!

GlitterInfection,

I downvoted this one because I do play games but I don’t know the rules!

GlitterInfection,

For a moment I thought that this was a commentary on the quality of using very innefective religious-based programs as the central component to all addiction treatment despite it being the antithesis of modern medicine.

But then I got the pun!

GlitterInfection,

I just canceled their service today.

Removing 4k streaming from my subscription is the last straw for me. Fuck you, Max, for fucking over tons of content creators before this. Fuck discovery and fuck your garbage reality TV content trash. Fuck your terrible new app layout. Just generally fuck this era of streaming services.

I’m so pissed because HBO Max was a pretty great service for a time.

GlitterInfection,

“In that case, here’s $5.”

GlitterInfection,

Plus it gives those of us who hate reality TV an excuse to hate watch our friends and loved ones who watch it and feel superior to them!

GlitterInfection,

“Well, Steve, but he doesn’t count!”

GlitterInfection,

Because we are mostly people from the corpse of reddit, and reddit was nothing but reposts of 10 year old memes?

GlitterInfection,

I love drafting MtG. But I hate playing with the resulting deck.

GlitterInfection,

I would like to meet this Private.

GlitterInfection,

Might want to talk to the ones who got sober…

GlitterInfection,

You might want to talk to them rather than guessing their experiences.

Fear of losing creativity is one reason people stay in a drug addiction cycle for way longer than is necessary. Folks who come out the other side often are surprised by how much easier it is to be creative. They find they can suddenly match their non-drug addicted counterparts and as a bonus can keep a job!

GlitterInfection,

Man this is such a reddit moment.

I’m someone working towards sobriety from hard drugs who has spent the last 8 years in and out of sober spaces such as 12-step programs, Recovery Dharma and their secular alternatives (SMART and LifeRing).

I presently attend a harm reduction program full of people trying to reach abstinence goals from a variety of substances.

I’m literally just telling you what actual people have said in my presence (obviously paraphrased since I didn’t write that shit down).

GlitterInfection,

I appreciate the thoughtful response.

It’s a challenging conversation to have with nuance. I meant to emphasize that I was talking about people who had crossed the line from casual use to destructive use with my “addictive cycle” phrasing, and I agree that not all drug use is equal or bad.

My boyfriend is a regular pot user. He’ll take a gummy once per week and go on hikes with his friends and come back on time for dinner all chipper. It’s adorable and not remotely a problem.

That isn’t to say that pot can’t be a problem. The specific person I was channeling from my current harm reduction abstinence group IS someone who is there because pot is a problem for him. He’s the most recent to have talked about how much easier it was to be creative when he’s sober but it’s a thing I’ve heard quite a few times in the past.

My boyfriend’s brother is also someone who struggles to keep down a job and as far as I know pot is his drug of choice.

Conversely, my drug of choice is crystal meth and I’ve maintained my career, never having lost a job. I’ve even excelled at my job through my hardest using (thanks covid wfh!).

And nobody in their right mind would say that meth use of any kind is better than the hardest of pot use.

At the end of the day, I don’t think that pot use harms creativity, but I don’t think it helps it either. And the people who think they NEED pot to be creative I do think are potentially hurting themselves.

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