Drugs?
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Hypocritical false friends include coffee, tobacco, betel, alcohol, marijuana, hashish, opium, etc., that entice and seduce with feelings and illusions of pleasure, happiness, freedom, ability, spontaneity, imagination, creativity, perception, understanding, wisdom, etc., while they actually ensnare into confusion, weakness, delusion, frustration, disappointment, failure, loss, despair, and finally, numbness and apathy, which are living death. One of their illusions is that we can avoid or undo their harm by using them in moderation. We can overcome all detrimental conditions and attain all beneficial desires through honest discipline, sincere wisdom, patient optimism, and balanced harmony. Balance does not mean moderation or compromise. Balance means giving relatively equal responsibility to the well-being of oneself, one's life partner and/or most intimate friend, children and/or others one edifies, family and/or closest friends, one's groups, humankind, all living things, all physical things, spirits and all spiritual things, God or infinity, aesthetics, and ethics. |
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9/7/2009 2:43 am |
Persecuting the Poet: Observe the Observer. The ways are such that these gifts are sometimes abused and the punishment of the sinner and the ignorant is sometimes understood as a scientific fact.  Om tat phat
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9/8/2009 1:57 pm |
Yes, we should all observe one another and ourselves. We don't need punishment or karma, because drugs give the appearance to make us abler while they are actually making us less able, give the appearance to make us more perceptive while actually making us less perceptive, so that drug users gradually become weaker and stupider and less effective and less causative till they can't hurt or help themselves or anyone anymore. This has nothing to do with morals or punishment, and everything to do with cause and effect. The mechanism of drugs is not to give us new additional energy or sensitivity, but to borrow energy and sensitivity from our futures, leaving less for later. All drugs also erode our ability to be healthy and happy and smart, and to create anything. It is more effective to use nourishing foods and exercises of body, mind, and spirit, to create new energy and sensitivity here now and for the future. Trying to do both in moderation results in a slower descent, but does not stop the descent. Why bother with impatient destruction? Disciplined patient construction will achieve much more than any drug can, and any use of any drug prevents this to a greater or lesser degree, so why bother with drugs?
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9/10/2009 1:38 pm |
There would be a difference between the proper use and a vain search for pleasure. I agree that you are telling me the basic morals. Om tat phat
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9/10/2009 3:03 pm |
Except in a few kinds of extreme emergencies, anything achieved through "proper use" of drugs can be achieved finer and further and more reliably and more sustainably, and without side effects and degradations, without drugs, though not as fast. I consider what I've written here and elsewhere to be ethical but not moral. Morals are rigid judgmental unchanging one-size-fits-all rules. Ethics are flexible nonjudgmental open-minded logical reasoning and the contemplation of optimum existence for all concerned, taking into consideration the uniqueness of each individual and of each moment.
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9/11/2009 9:53 am |
Yes there are morals and ethics, being very much the same thing, ethics being the higher aspect. I also see an "ethical trap". In the history of culture we have work and leisure, and other ways of dealing with our basic human needs. Thus providing us with an "escape". But I do not see one ratio, but several. Layers of ethical understanding. Om tat phat
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9/11/2009 1:07 pm |
Stern, yes, there are layers, spectra, continua of all things. One of these spectra is that to the extent that we enjoy creating, sharing, evolving, we don't need escapes.
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