Anti-Drug People Are Like Stones In The River

[Chaote]

You see life is like a flowing river okay, and people who don't use drugs (speaking more about the anti-drug people than the I just don't ppl) are like stones in the river, they start off rough but the water erodes them to smooth beautiful stone, and the stone might stay in the river just smooth and happy (like a person in a job content making a living, some stones may get picked up and taken for there beauty, the more succesfull ppl, but they really don't move from that one spot, people who use drugs (speaking more about users who use halluciongens but also others) are like wood, they just float along on top of the river taking all the passing scenery in, and teh ymay end up in some crazy place the rocks couldn't even imagine or they may be picked up and made into are or carved into something but wether they are an intricate carving or just drift wood in the ocean they have see amazing sights that the rocj who stayed in the stream will never see, You know what I'm saying

[Dualpower]

It would be much easier to understand if there were periods and complete thoughts here.



Or maybe the point of this is merely being reiterated by its defiance of the restrictive enlish language!






Edited by: Dualpower

[windtraveler]

Chaote, you dont have to use drugs to go with the flow of the river, the Tao, Meditation. In fact, if you come to rely on them for this, then you have become a rock.

[diggitydawg]

i think you won't become a rock if you use moderation........i agree
with your analogy........although, i don't necessarily think that
either the rocks or the pieces of wood are better off.........anything
can be used either for the better or for the worse......that includes
drugs / education etc.....it all just depends on your motivation for
doing it.

[Chaote]

I didn't meen to give give either a negative conotation, because seeing many things could be horrible like death etc. And I would like to restate it as not drugs but as changing mind state, because the meditation point was a very good one. Also if you become dependent on them your not 'looking" around your totally focused on them (them being drugs).

[dastardlymonkey]

i have no idea what you just said but it touched me.

[William_Again]

LOL I thought you meant do drugs make you aroused...

[windtraveler]

Yeah...Ha ha!!....Drugs do give me wood on occasion. lol

Seeing death might not be such a horrible thing you know, hell, i just had a beer with him the other night. Sorry for not being more serious right now, i'm just having a good time with a few of these posts.

Drugs can certainly show you different ways of being or seeing the world, but i think the change that must take place within each of us needs to come about naturally, and not from a chemical we put into our bodies, if the change is to be permanent that is.

That's true windtraveler. But in western societies, one mindset (similar values, beliefs, and behaviors) is imposed on the vast majority of the population. Drugs, especially psychadelics, can show a person that there is more than one way of viewing the world, and can start that change.

[turfshark_40]

I think that a drug can help trigger a change in a person's viewpoint, like a piece of wood stuck among the rocks, and all it needs is a little push to float to the top, to use your analogy Chaote.

[Chaote]

Death was just something that came to mind and I didn't meen it as being like totally bad because it could be a god thing, and also each time after you take a drug of any kind you are permanently changed if only a small amount, like I find with ecstacy that after each roll I have a better out look on life and I see more of it's awesome beauty, the stronger the drug the more drastic the change.

[Inferno13]

Well if you think about it another way, the rock let's life come to it (life being the water I assume is what you were saying). In a sense it sees things that the wood would never see. The rock is always in the same spot but the things that go by only it sees because the wood is already gone. I think that the wood and the rock could go through equally interesting worlds. However I think that the wood would have a better oppurtunity for finding new things. Since it's moving and going to new places. But it's not to say that the rock won't see some of the new things that the wood would miss...all metaphorically speaking of course