How did they know?

[Az]

Originally posted by Park Avenue


let's be glad females don't think the same way as you

Sava, are you questioning the hazards of smoking?

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Park Avenue
let's be glad females don't think the same way as you

Stew, misquoting is a serious offence.

[Inverse Icarus]

you are quite a buzzkill.

[Solly]

Stew, manslaughter is a serious offence.

Yeah I know

[Monk]

Originally posted by Park Avenue
Monk rules.

Right on!

[Enigma_Nova]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
Murad IV?

How willing are you to accept health and lifestyle advice from a man who drank himself to death before the age of 30?

I live at a university dorm. I'd never take advice from anyone if I disrespected the views of the drinkers.

It's like I always thought:
You can give people mountains of evidence, but if it conflicts with their beliefs (and many people believe their peers to know what's right) then you're misdirecting your effort.

I say prevent cigarette supporters from reproducing (steralising drugs?) and wait 'til they kill themselves off.

[Space05us]

How did they know?

[Ned]

Anyone who has been around a heavy smoker knows what Jame I said was true. What we did not know was that smoking caused cancer.

[Pekka]

I believe what they smoked back then had more poisons too, than today, though they are very poisonous today.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Originally posted by Enigma_Nova

I live at a university dorm. I'd never take advice from anyone if I disrespected the views of the drinkers.

You dozy bugger. There's a massive chasm of difference between your average youthful binge-drinker and an astonishingly self-destructive alcoholic who kills themself before the age of 30.

It's like I always thought:
You can give people mountains of evidence, but if it conflicts with their beliefs (and many people believe their peers to know what's right) then you're misdirecting your effort.

I say prevent cigarette supporters from reproducing (steralising drugs?) and wait 'til they kill themselves off.

Great attitude, sunshine. "Your views disagree with my own- therefore you and your kind must be eradicated". I bet that wows the chicks.

[Enigma_Nova]

Point 1:
You're right in that regard but both sets of people are drinking themselves into early graves. Some graves are merely earlier than others.

I am concerned about the mental health of my fellow residents, but I am not concerned for what they and their ilk do upon themselves. I worry though that a potential prodigy may be swayed by the current system, and lack of a strong sober rational element.

People (other than me) have this social strain, they like to form in groups and do what their peers do. I am afraid that this strain has caused a mass revolt from rational thought, and want to bring rational thought to power.
Don't blame me for being the Devil's advocate (Though by above doctrine you will be obliged to).

Point 2:
My life's goals, in order of priority:
#1. Ascertain knowledge/wisdom.
#2. Protect all allies.
#3. Destroy all enemies.

I, in pronouncing myself as a warrior of sober thought, have casually cast off valuing such activities as Inebriation and Carnal pleasures. Of course, I'm not against having allies, but I'm not after girlfriends in such a sense.

You have a problem with my life's choices, sir? Well thankyou - it works both ways.

[Drake Tungsten]

I, in pronouncing myself as a warrior of sober thought, have casually cast off valuing such activities as Inebriation and Carnal pleasures. Of course, I'm not against having allies, but I'm not after girlfriends in such a sense.

Who's DL are you? Seriously, no one can be this homo-gay...

[Ecthy]

Enigma, your top priority should be breeding like a rabbit (without reproducing), but hey.

Plus, the tendency to smoking is not hereditary, so sterelising drugs would have no effects.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Originally posted by Enigma_Nova
My life's goals, in order of priority:
#1. Ascertain knowledge/wisdom.
#2. Protect all allies.
#3. Destroy all enemies.

I, in pronouncing myself as a warrior of sober thought, have casually cast off valuing such activities as Inebriation and Carnal pleasures. Of course, I'm not against having allies, but I'm not after girlfriends in such a sense.

You have a problem with my life's choices, sir? Well thankyou - it works both ways.

I don't have the remotest problem with your lifestyle choices. Only one of us is proposing the eradication of opposing lifestyles, and it ain't me.

I've met quite a few people like you on the internet. The trouble is that it takes some time before I work out whether their behaviour (one part asceticism to twenty parts narcissism) is due to a dysfunctional response to social failure (or fear of social failure), or if they're genuinely aesthetes/hermitics. It's almost invariably the former, however. If it's the former, I hope you review your lifestyle and make a few changes.

If it's the latter then go with your choices, be happy, and don't be a pillock with the lifestyles of others again.

[Theben]

Originally posted by Enigma_Nova
I worry though that a potential prodigy may be swayed by the current system,

I don't think you need to worry about this, especially if this is how you present yourself irl.