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Re: OUCH!

> >What ever happened to good o'l psychedelic drug usage?
> >
>This is an oxymoron in our culture. Anyone who has experienced psychedelic
>drug usage (and I would refer to the strong, clean hallucinogens like LSD 
>or
>organics like peyote or mescaline, not PCP or "Angel Dust" which are far
>worse) would either realize that such states are incompatible with creative
>functioning, or moved on to other substances, probably for their abusive
>qualities (and therefore either be dead and incapable of referring to
>anything as "old" or be so useless as to be far away from this discussion)
>or not realized the extent of their own mental dullness and consequently
>miss the misplacement of the apostrophe in "ol'" (not o'l) or spend
>inordinate amounts of time writing run-on sentences to loop-based
>newsgroups.
>
>

wow.  Don't mess with Mark.  I have to say i agree though.  I live in a 
large city.  I can see the effects of all these "mind freeing" substances 
everytime I walk home from work.  People who could potentially be doing 
something other than laying in their own filth and trying to bum change from 
me.  People who made very poor life style choices in the 1970's. Its brutal.
OH MY GOD.  Does anyone remember laughter?

No need to defend me, kids.  I can stand on my own, quite nicely.  I just wasn't aware that my grandmother was on the list.

First, I'd like to apologize for my misplaced use of the apostrophe in "o'l"  You see, ever since that one time... when my brother and I were under the influence of mescaline, listening to the Bulgarian Woman's Choir, and you see we all clearly saw that Nikki's pants had this incredible celtic knot pattern on them, and of course we all came to this conclusion independently (of course) and then we couldn't find the refrigerator... no wait, we couldn't find the refrigerator AND THEN we saw the celtic knot, only I also....

And ever since, I've never been quite able to put the apostrophe in the right place when abbreviating "old."  Good thing I'm still able to write concise sentences.

Second, the posting was meant to be humorous.  It did (as does a lot of humor) have an element of truth, though.  I'd be lying if I said that I didn't "partake" in psychedelics during one point of my life.  While being past that now, I've never had a regret about anything I've done.  Small doses and safe environments have kept me safe.  Sure, they'll always be the Jimi Hendrix's, but those people are obviously looking for an exit.  There are always exits.  This may sound kooky, but I almost never drink alcohol.  I believe that alcohol and pot are far, far more evil than mescaline, peyote or good o'l (there is goes again) LSD.

So what do you think about shamanic cultures that use psychedelics, or Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band, for that matter?  Should we ignore that part of our culture?

So, just lay off, OK?  Take a chill pill duuuuuuuuuuuuuooooooooooooooode! ;-P

Sgt. Mark