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Ouch, the back that has got to hurt, sorry to hear it. Hope it gets better.

aw man i had my back crushed this winter, we where holding our boards over our heads and board sliding each other and Assmoney land square on me, a few days later my back gave out, i liad in bed for a couple of days and nursed it, now it is a main consentrion point of my work out routin, have you met amazed i know he surfs
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[Edited on Aug 23, 2003]

[Edited on Aug 23, 2003]

you handled that nicely. i would've pushed the bitch down the stairs. i hold doors for everyone, it's just fuckin' polite. people suck.

i hope you have a bitch-free weekend.

i believe it was isolationism that got us in this mess in the first place, post cold-war/go-go 90's was a me me decade. i think the lesson is that you must be engaged in the world. especially in the middle east where they are practically begging us to solve their problems.

benign imperialism so to speak...

p.s. i went to the andy warhol museum in pittsburgh last week, saw a farah fawcett exhibit and a recreation of what is considered the beginning of it all, a faux grocery store with fake produce that cost more then real produce. this store was an actual exhibit back in the early 60's and confronted the abstraction of value in a capitalistic society...

I wish I could say otherwise, but I'm totally with you on your journal entry.

... and the man has spoke. Ah, the booze can always bring out the best or worst in people. Myself, nothing but the best!

you opened one nice can of worms, my friend. i personally don't care for 12 step programs and favor the health realization method of recovery. different discussion.

i believe that the 12 steps can be used in one of two basic ways. some addicts find a strength in the group that allows them to develop a positive sense of self that fosters spiritual growth and healing of the previously mentioned emotional hole. this is what i meant by the strengthening of ones character and will.

then there are those who buy into the powerless addict identity and become dependent on the group for their good feelings. they get the same high from positive feedback that they did from the chemicals. these are the people who never recover and end up filling the hole with the group. their self worth is predicated on the approval of others.

Depends on why your doing the drugs inthe first place I guess, through most of high school I did meth and acid on a daily basis. I came from an inter-city school to all most boon docks where people grew up toghter, and I was already and odball to begin with, so to disconect from where I didn't want to be I did alot of drugs. After this continued from quit some time and the friend I was hanging out with and useing with started ODing I realized I didn't want to be there either, in about a months time I disconnected from my friend, dropped every thing inculding smoking, and started to make friends with the wierdo in my school. I generaly think of it as a tool or aid to get through rough or confusing patches in life anyboby who keeps on using isn't trying very hard to find a salution to what ales them. wheater it be presciption or self medicated. When shit hit the fan and you know there is nothing you can do about it that day, get tanked and spark a fatty thats what I do.

i haven't read that book. i wanted to yak about the nature vs. nurture thing. we all know examples of this. my good friend is from a white trash background and had nothing but lazy, welfare fraud perpetrating, drug addicted criminals for role models. with few exceptions he was surrounded by fuck ups and offs.

he is one of the most ambitious and driven people i know. clearly an argument for nature over nurture. the one thing that gets him occasionally is the lack of experience with reasonable people. he looks at everyone as an adversary and feels like he has to do everything for himself. he works harder than he has to.

that was to be my opening example. i think the strength of ones character has more to do with the outcome of ones life than either factor alone.

i fully support a character strengthening flash butterfly!

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i was gonna get into this with you at BLB. sorry you didn't see MY BIG FUCKIN' FAKE LEG STICKIN' OUTTA MY SHORTS IN THE ENTRYWAY TO THE PLACE. Maybe next time.

I did the same last year! went to third lair and got six stitches in my chin in return. We're too old for this shit.