Paranoia

i'm naturally a terribly shy person so i used to get feelings like that soo much. whenever i got stoned around people that weren't my friends i would assume they were thinking mean stuff about me and i'd get really quiet and just watch everything that was going on. i found as i got a bit older i didn't worry so much about it, but my confidence has also naturally increased with age. you will probably get over it in time, and until then stick to your regular smoking buddies you can be yourself around or don't get too fucked up with people you're not comfortable with. in reality though, you're all on the same level, pot is definitely a peaceful equalizer.

 

Wouldn't it be great if you could get stoned without getting paranoid!! Well now that I think about it you can, Valium is like being stoned minus the paranoia, to much hassle though trying to get it without a prescription.

 

I'm split on the I.R.A. thing. My dad was in the I.R.A. at one point. My male relatives all were also. They laugh at me for being American born and raised, but I do know about the tumultuous relationship between the protestants and the Catholics. With a last name like "Stone" you better know, American or not.

Basically my beliefs are split because I don't believe in violence, and yet I believe that the English should leave Ireland and the commonwealth be disband. The only problem being, I'm an American. I mean, I might have Irish lineage, but I'm an American, which means one thing... my whole world, the soil on which I stand was taken imperialistically from natives. Now, if I were to say that what the English did to the Irish was some sort of crime that will ring out through the ages, I'm being a total hypocrite. I love America, and in a way I'm glad we did what we did in the 17th century.

So, really, I'm pretty much forced to say to the Northern Irish, "Hey, that's geopolitics. You were weaker, they were stronger, accept it" that's the problem. It's natural for a people who're oppressed to form their own resistance (I.E. the I.R.A.) as to not accept that plight. So, really, what is a freedom fighter and what is a terrorist? It's a hard situation to discuss as someone who lives happily on land taken in the same vain. Really I don't even know why I get involved. It's probably very arrogant of an American to speak of the situation or pass any judgement.

 

I don't think you were "passing judgement" man, you're just saying it as you see it from your end, it's sometimes good to see how someone fro the outside see it. You views are probably more objective.

I just think that no matter what way Fairfield tries to justify it, and I know the "one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter" phrase, he can't justify what the IRA have done and the means they used to try and gain freedom from the Brits. They killed countless of there own people and were widely known as Terrorists long before 9/11 and before it became a buzz word for all dissidents. Anyway he's entitled to have his sig, I just think on site like this it's not appropriate. I find it as offensive as I imagine someone from New York would if I had a sig advertising an Al -Queda site or an Israeli would if I had a sig advertising the Hamas website (once again like with the IRA I think Hamas have a cause, but I don't agree with their means).

 

OMG. That happened to me, too (it became the dominant mindframe)! People who don't even know me always think I'm stoned! It's fucked up.

And, Spacer, yes, valium is great! but vicodin is much better!

 

i think you guys can solve your arguement over the ira situation, along with all the poeple of ireland, by passin the peace pipe.


marijuana is the symbol for peace, if everyone smoked the world would be much nicer. they say the world would suck caus no one would do work, but if everyone was a stoner, the onyl work needed would be food, and entertainment, everyhting else can be achieved with one's own devices. eachother.

 

lol but when the dope runs out, there'd be people losing it left right and centre, be like world war 3

 

thats one of teh great thigns about weed tho, it will never runout. and if it does, then it would be because the world has been made infoertile form bombs n shit.

 

Im guessing your a new toker. I never get paranoid except for when im with a bunch of ameteurs that im toking with and they get paranoid, that makes me kind of paranoid, i just smoke more and i forget all about it.

 

yer other ppl's paranoia spreads


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