31st March 2006, 1:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 31st March 2006, 1:29 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
I don't believe I mentioned I don't want to have friendships or have a fulfilling career. I only stated I don't need a relationship to justify my existance, and I don't seek it out. Why you believe this means I must be afraid of it is beyond me. Nice straw man though lazy.
You seem to think I'm actually terrified of myself, or that I've never once analyzed myself in depth, found problems, and confronted them, and further you believe the only way to do so is to drink alcohol. This is not the case, as I have changed myself in some pretty major ways over the years, and using a skeptical attitude basically means I'm always analyzing myself.
I for one have no problem constantly analyzing things. Life is an active process, not passive (death is a passive process, oh and sleep too I guess), and so the brain must be active at all times too.
It is all well and good if drinking has helped you to face your inner demons, but don't announce that this is the only way to truth.
And by the way, of course not understanding why someone would drink is a statement of ignorance. All questions are.
You seem to think I'm actually terrified of myself, or that I've never once analyzed myself in depth, found problems, and confronted them, and further you believe the only way to do so is to drink alcohol. This is not the case, as I have changed myself in some pretty major ways over the years, and using a skeptical attitude basically means I'm always analyzing myself.
I for one have no problem constantly analyzing things. Life is an active process, not passive (death is a passive process, oh and sleep too I guess), and so the brain must be active at all times too.
It is all well and good if drinking has helped you to face your inner demons, but don't announce that this is the only way to truth.
And by the way, of course not understanding why someone would drink is a statement of ignorance. All questions are.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)