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'##::::'##:::'#####:::'########: VIVA LA REVOLUCION! CERDO DEL CAPITALISTA!!
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##:::: ##:'##:::: ##: ##::::::: THE HELOTS OF ECSTASY PRESS RELEASE #431 !!
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#########: ##:::: ##: ######::: ZIEGO VUANTAR SHALL BE MUCH VICTORIOUS! !!
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##:::: ##:. ##:: ##:: ##::::::: "Illicit Substances and a !!
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##:::: ##::. #####::: ########: Carefree Lifestyle" !!
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..:::::..::::.....::::........:: by -> Quarex 1/15/99 !!
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!!========================================================================!!
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So there I sat, in the midst of a group of mid to late teenagers,
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all of them drinking vodka and alternately smoking pot and cigarettes.
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I, naturally, am abstaining, since my purpose in life is the Guy Who
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Never Does Anything "Bad." In my perpetual abstinence from all things
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fun, I have noticed a great deal of things. Most of them are just
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anti-drinking/smoking/etc. dogma. Yes, this is the kind nobody wants to
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hear, since its only general purpose is to lead into a war of words which
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escalates into either disinterest or ad hominem attacks. So,
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naturally, nobody should be subjected to this. However, somewhere along
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the line, I started actually putting together a legitimate argument
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against all this kind of crap.
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When one of my friends first told me that he hated the taste of
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coffee when he first tried it, and yet forced himself to drink it until
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he was used to the taste anyway, I could only wonder why. Why the fuck
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would anyone want to do something that he/she hated, only for the
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purpose of being able to do it without hating it later?
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Then, it occurred to me that this is a pattern seen in almost every
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aspect of life, be it working your way through school, working your way
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into a subculture, or just working. People pretty much never like doing
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anything, if you take a look at everything. I have learned that things
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which I took for granted as being pure unadulturated hedonism, like sex,
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drugs, and drinking, are not necessarily any different than coffee.
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I talked to that same friend who forced himself to like coffee about beer
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once, and sure enough, he had loathed beer when he first started drinking
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it, yet eventually convinced himself to enjoy the taste. Similarly, a
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girl I knew to be a complete sex fiend also explained that she started
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out disliking sex, yet kept doing it beacuse she felt like she was
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supposed to do it. Why? Why bother? Is life not enough fucking
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bullshit already? Do you really need to add more things you do not
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really want to be doing to your life?
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Of course, just getting used to something in itself also might not
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be such a bad thing on its own, maybe you feel that through triumphing
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over adversity, you make yourself a better person. However, how many
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people do I know who smoke a pack a day who abhorred smoking when they
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first tried it? Way more than I wish I knew. Going from a position of
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loathing to a position of addiction is just fucked up. If you do not dig
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something when you first try it, why not just try something else? I
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mean, would I be drinking five glasses of milk a day if I had not fuckin'
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loved that shit since day 1? Hell no! I want my life to be as care-free
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as I can make it, and adjusting my tastes to get used to something that
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sucks sure as hell does not fit into my idea of a care-free life.
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Now, before you go pointing out that you personally have always
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loved drugs, alcohol, sex, or whatever, I realize that this does not
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apply to everyone. If you have sex once and decide it is the greatest
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thing ever, hey, that is an excellent thing for you to be doing. If you
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have sex and feel like your soul has been broken into a thousand pieces
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as a result, maybe you should try abstaining for a while, or maybe
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forever. I could use some company aside from celibate religious
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figures, after all. The same obviously applies to anything.
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And always remember to metaphorically apply the most absolutely
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true statement ever uttered by an animated character that Jon Lovitz
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voiced: "If the movie stinks, just don't go!"
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!!========================================================================!!
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!! (c) !LA HOE REVOLUCION PRESS! HOE #431, WRITTEN BY: QUAREX - 1/15/99 !!
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