I'm glad your honest about your racism, hopefully one day that honesty will extend over to your hypocrisy.
Not really seen you around much, although you don't agree with a thing I said, and called me names, I welcome any poster who actually provides an argument with the name calling. I do try not to be a hypocrite, if I ever discover that I have been, I will reexamine my stance and modify a position, or just say fuck it and move on realizing that no one is perfect and I can just add that to my list.
As a scholar, you should know, there are sources beyond wiki
I love wiki, what you talking about? But seriously, I do most of my reading in bed before I go to sleep, I spend a good 30 mins to an hour reading. I wouldnt use wiki if I were doing research for something serious, but to satisfy my own personal interests, its great. Wiki and the ipad work great for that purposes, I dont have my own personal library.
Just like your own interest led you to find the best way to steal from your parents and the local Walmart.
Fair enough, though I would make one, important distinction. There are obviously some of both, but the white people I know who sell drugs use the drugs they sell and only sell to offset the cost of their drug use. The black people I know that sell drugs do not use drugs, to them it is a career path. (By drugs, I aint talking about marijuana, I mean the pills/heroin, meth and cocaine/crac). Yup, I did some shitty things, I have tried to hide it from you all by never mentioning it on this forum... Im so embarrassed you outed me like this.
Does that distinction, somehow make stealing from mom and dad less abhorrent?
You tell me... My dad had a 18 volt DeWalt drill. The batteries and the drill were 6 years old, and didnt charge well. He bought himself a new one, with a different battery design. I grabbed the old drill, and got $60, enough for a good dose. There was also a 9mm Glock19, $250. I also went through my moms jewelry, and took a few gold chains, a gold bracelet, and a pair of gold hoop earrings, $120.
That is a complete list of items I stole from my parents, or any family member.
Consider this... Right next to the old drill, was the new drill, which would have brought me an extra $40-50. Right next to the Glock were two antique handguns that my grandfather owned, and my dad took possession of upon my grandfathers death, each of those two guns were significantly more valuable (They were Colt revolvers from the Snake series produced about 30 years ago) in terms of both dollars and what they meant to my father than the Glock. So that day, I could have hit a $1000 dollar lick easy, instead of 250. In the same drawer as the sundry gold items I took were my moms first engagement ring, both of my parents gold class rings, several gold rings belonging to my grandmothers who are both deceased. Again, I left significantly more cash value behind than I took, and I took items that were either redundant or very easily replaced.
I am not saying it was OK for me to steal from my parents. Honestly it is the only thing I did while I was out there that still bothers me. However, while I wouldn't say it was OK for me to take what I took, I can say I am glad I didn't take some really important items.
So, would you say stealing some random chattels which no one cared a lot about is as bad as stealing a family heirloom?
Losing everything you had and becoming a thief really should have tipped someone of your intellect off way before the whole premeditated murder thing.
Should does not always equate to did. Any person who has really been an addict will tell you that the denial was the hardest thing to overcome. Its absurd.
Protip- Murdering your drug dealer, is in fact nothing like God commanding you to sacrifice your child.
The Abraham comment was thrown in for irony. I in no way feel like Tim (the name of my dealer in question) was spared by God so he could go on to be a leading figure in one of the worlds major monotheistic religions.
If America would be better off removing black people because they commit so many more crimes, couldn't the same be said about you?
I have never argued that my presence in this country was of any benefit to it. But sure, while I was in active addiction. Any country would be better off if it legalized drugs so that those who fall into addiction can still be productive members of society. Switzerland has heroin clinics, where an addict can go twice a day and get clean heroin, a clean syringe, and a sterile packet of water. It isn't the same as our methadone or suboxone clinics, which require so much red tape one has to plan their day around going, instead of leaving home 10-20 minutes early to stop by on your way to work.
In this prohibition country, addicts cannot be productive because if you have not had your dose, you can't do shit besides make efforts to get that dose. Even if you got the money in your pocket, scoring your dose is often very difficult. It is a personal priority to the addict, becoming more important than being at work, school or where ever he needs to be. I've heard my aunt tell stories of kids who are left at her school (she is a teacher) for hours and hours because the kids parents are drug dealers trying to score and neglect to pick up their child. Its a powerful urge.
At least they have an excuse. What was yours?
According to the IQ test I took while in college, I am two standard deviations above the mean IQ. Lack of intelligence is not my problem. Lack of discipline, perhaps.
Finally some truth. It wasn't everyones fault that you were/are a shiftless junkie. You just liked getting high.
I blame no one. Also, you are a member on a marijuana forum, chances are you like getting high too. Also, for shits and giggles, I had never, ever in my life, abused prescription medications prior to being given a prescription for 90, fifteen-milligram, roxys after my knee surgery. I didnt abuse those either, not the first two months anyway.
Some good points you made dude. Nice chatting with ya.