Bumped for Falcon's superb image find. I was going to say magic but this is a simpler explanation.
SweetBabyCheezits
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Q: How DID Noah get all those animals into the Ark?
by notjustyet ina: you take the "j" out of "jahs" and the "f" out of "way".
i can't beleive that i did not recognize this 40 years ago!!.
njy.
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Medical Marijuana, Your opinion please?
by Greybeard indo any of you use medical marijuana?
i go to aa and there are a few who believe medical marijuana is an "outside issue" and they are ok with it.
i don't know... alcohol doesn't work for me but if it did, i would use it... i wish i could find a "new drug" that works lol.
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Shirley: From listening to the court shows, like Judge Judy and a few others, just from hearing the so-called "medical reasons" a lot of folks are prescribed legal pot is an absolute joke. Asthma, ADHD, really ? ? ? ....And btw I've never even tried the stuff myself.
LKL: Huge problem with today's society. People criminalizing/demonizing things of which they know nothing about.
Hang on, Lysmith, I understand the researchers at Johns Hopkins University always seek the medical expertise of Judge Judy before undertaking a new study. So I'm sure you get the same information - or better - if you just skip the middleman and watch Judy.
In Shirley's defense, hers is a prejudice that I used to share. Then I realized I'd been a parroting misinformation all my life.
I had a fundy at work tell me that MJ should remain illegal because it 'makes people lazy and incompetent'. I think he got his perception from Cheech & Chong. I told him how the famous astrophysicist Carl Sagan was a MJ user. He immediate reply was, "Yeah, and he probably could've been a REAL scientist if not for smoking that stuff."
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Medical Marijuana, Your opinion please?
by Greybeard indo any of you use medical marijuana?
i go to aa and there are a few who believe medical marijuana is an "outside issue" and they are ok with it.
i don't know... alcohol doesn't work for me but if it did, i would use it... i wish i could find a "new drug" that works lol.
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SweetBabyCheezits
SBC:Why is marijuana not legal? It's a natural plant that grows in the dirt. (Greg Giraldo)
Shirley: Poison ivy also grows in the dirt, but I don't think anyone would want to ingest/smoke that.
Non sequitur and straw man argument.
- The point is that MJ is a natural plant that is banned by the government.
- If someone wants to ingest poison ivy or rub it on his scrotum, it might seem crazy to me but that's his business, not mine, not yours, not Uncle Sam's.
- The government, as far as I know, makes no law against growing poison ivy in your yard.
- How do the health concerns of MJ compare to legal substances like alcohol and tobacco?
Here's a straw man: You can die from drinking too much water. It's true. The abuse of any substance can be unhealthy.
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James: I would die for my right to be contrary - you know that well, SBC.
Well you should also poo-poo Copernicus and Galileo for not getting heliocentrism exactly right. Those guys and ol' Bertrand were real f'ckups.
... Good Thing (sic) that Bertrand Russell did not have to die for his ideas in Principia Mathematica.
Per http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/principia-mathematica/#SOPM:
Despite these criticisms, Principia Mathematica proved to be remarkably influential in at least three other ways. First, it popularized modern mathematical logic to an extent undreamt of by its authors. By using a notation superior in many ways to that of Frege, Whitehead and Russell managed to convey the remarkable expressive power of modern predicate logic in a way that previous writers had been unable to achieve. Second, by exhibiting so clearly the deductive power of the new logic, Whitehead and Russell were able to show how powerful the modern idea of a formal system could be, thus opening up new work in what was soon to be called metalogic. Third, Principia Mathematica reaffirmed clear and interesting connections between logicism and two of the main branches of traditional philosophy, namely metaphysics and epistemology, thus initiating new and interesting work in both of these areas.
Thus, not only did Principia introduce a wide range of philosophically rich notions (such as propositional function, logical construction, and type theory), it also set the stage for the discovery of classical metatheoretic results (such as those of Kurt Gödel, Alonzo Church, Alan Turing and others) and initiated a tradition of common technical work in fields as diverse as philosophy, mathematics, linguistics, economics and computer science.
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SweetBabyCheezits
Nice clarification, Qcmbr. I agree.
EDIT: Also, good job of being contrary for the sake of being contrary, James.
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Medical Marijuana, Your opinion please?
by Greybeard indo any of you use medical marijuana?
i go to aa and there are a few who believe medical marijuana is an "outside issue" and they are ok with it.
i don't know... alcohol doesn't work for me but if it did, i would use it... i wish i could find a "new drug" that works lol.
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SweetBabyCheezits
Why is marijuana not legal? It's a natural plant that grows in the dirt. Do you know what's not natural? Eighty-year-old dudes with hard-ons. That's not natural. But we got pills for that. We're dedicating all our medical resources to keeping the old guys erect, but we're putting people in jail for something that grows in the dirt? -Greg Giraldo
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SweetBabyCheezits
James: There are things worth dying for in certain circumstances - for example, your close friends or your family.
That is a given, even for Bertrand Russell, I suspect. I don't think he was including loved ones in "beliefs".
Here's more from a fantastic interview and you can also read/download some of his philosophical works on Project Gutenberg for free if it interests you.
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Medical Marijuana, Your opinion please?
by Greybeard indo any of you use medical marijuana?
i go to aa and there are a few who believe medical marijuana is an "outside issue" and they are ok with it.
i don't know... alcohol doesn't work for me but if it did, i would use it... i wish i could find a "new drug" that works lol.
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SweetBabyCheezits
Why should a plant that grows in the dirt be banned by the government in the first place? If someone drives under the influence of THC, yeah, they should be dealt with. But if my neighbor wants to burn one down at the end of the day, in the privacy of his own home, and he uses it responsibly.... I see no need for the government to butt in.
Or should the govt ban alcohol and tobacco as well?
EDIT: While I am in favor of liquor laws/regulations being applied to MJ, I would not personally be able to take advantage of the stuff, so the legalization would not benefit me directly.
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SweetBabyCheezits
James: I think many here have totally missed the theme of the novel that was N.drew.
EDIT: I think many here pretty well got it.
