Christian Democrats in the United States
Domestic Issues - Drugs and Alcohol If we have not encountered these problems ourselves, all of us have known someone touched by these vices. When individual abuse of drugs and alcohol causes problems for that individual or for society at large, we advocate a compassionate response of rehabilitation rather than the brutal response of violence. As a society, we must attack the economic and moral hopelessness that leads to the downward spiral of alcohol, drugs and violence. We recognize that prisons are a breeding ground for criminality, and we support the release and rehabilitation of all non-violent offenders with no record of offenses against others, property or public safety. Because demand for drugs leads to imports that fund enemies of the United States, the government must adopt a rational approach that enables it to better control that demand within a civil, medical framework. Subscribe to Posts [Atom]
Saturday, July 28, 2007
11:18 AM
However, the author of the original post does this just as much by crying only in private, which again is the wrong circumstance, and as she admits, a lie to cover up what sounds like a long-passed family shame. I suppose it's difficult for a lot of people to poop in public, too, but we all know we all do. Plop plop.
If we could learn to cry with each other, gently and get it over with, human emotions would not come crashing down as crises in our lives. I agree, none of it has anything to do with gender, in as much as gender is a gradient over a series of genetic events that tend mostly to end up in one form or the other. It is only about one's will not to be a slave to reality. Sheesh, get on with it, cry and laugh and love and poop and die — we've all got problems — it's a lot easier to be there for each other when we accept we're not alone, being human.
I guess I am posting this here because I do not believe that chemicals are the manifestation of predestination in the mind. Living in a psychotic world, I wonder frequently if psychosis is not a totally natural reaction. At any rate, I believe it is wrong to cast people out, or to begin fearing them and accusing them of psychosis, simply because they have used drugs. Nor are the insane left out of the sight of God, for that matter.
The core of anger and violence is still not chemicals in the body, whether developed or ingested. The issue is falsehood. Falsehood in our relationships and internally in our minds. The real issue is, why do people seek relief in drugs and alcohol when instead they could confess their sins and emotions to one another, love one another and cry together?
Why do we refuse to cry in public?
Maybe higher testosterone leads to crying about stuff that doesn't matter, because it increases psycho-reflex responses to lie to survive; subsequently one may only shed tears in response to the wrong circumstances. So the cycle perpetuates itself by seeking negative stress through conflict and violence to both suppress and validate these emotions, leading to testosterone generation in response to regular stimuli of adrenaline and (blood) alcohol.However, the author of the original post does this just as much by crying only in private, which again is the wrong circumstance, and as she admits, a lie to cover up what sounds like a long-passed family shame. I suppose it's difficult for a lot of people to poop in public, too, but we all know we all do. Plop plop.
If we could learn to cry with each other, gently and get it over with, human emotions would not come crashing down as crises in our lives. I agree, none of it has anything to do with gender, in as much as gender is a gradient over a series of genetic events that tend mostly to end up in one form or the other. It is only about one's will not to be a slave to reality. Sheesh, get on with it, cry and laugh and love and poop and die — we've all got problems — it's a lot easier to be there for each other when we accept we're not alone, being human.
I guess I am posting this here because I do not believe that chemicals are the manifestation of predestination in the mind. Living in a psychotic world, I wonder frequently if psychosis is not a totally natural reaction. At any rate, I believe it is wrong to cast people out, or to begin fearing them and accusing them of psychosis, simply because they have used drugs. Nor are the insane left out of the sight of God, for that matter.
The core of anger and violence is still not chemicals in the body, whether developed or ingested. The issue is falsehood. Falsehood in our relationships and internally in our minds. The real issue is, why do people seek relief in drugs and alcohol when instead they could confess their sins and emotions to one another, love one another and cry together?
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