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Old 05-08-2003, 09:38 PM   #19 (permalink)
butthead
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I think there is probably some scientific validity to the addiction thing. I think there are some things that when you ingest them in whatever manner, you want more. Who hasn't ever wanted another cookie, or beer, or another jump from the diving board, or to hear more of the same style of music.
I believe this would work through the dopamine reward pathway in the brain (the same pathway drugs like nicotine, methamphetamine, cocaine, and orgasm work through).

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I go with BoCo, weakness abounds.
I don't think one is weak for being "addicted". (I think the term addiction is profitless now.)

However claiming you are helpless is fucking lame. Reminds me of my depression. I guess I am lame. Fuck.

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Unless someone has some sort of psychological problem,I tend to say addiction is a choice. Take people who smoke for example.Thay made a choice to start irregardless of any societal pressures to do so.When they say they can't quit, what they are telling you is that they don't want to quit. Proof is in the pudding? See what choice they make between continuing smoking and getting their legs amputated.
How do you correlate "psychological problems" to addiction or vice versa? What are "psychological problems" and "addiction" supposed to mean?

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Yes.
Their societies are total immersion situations as well.
When it is said that man is a social animal, it means there is no such thing as an individual human.

As in bee colonies: a single bee is a mythical individual, it needs other bees to define it's existence and its place in the world as a bee.

The mind of man is and has always been a hive mind.

It's worth a thread of its own.

coming soon!
Fucking excellent. I have been thinking about this lately. One of the things that spurred it were all of these people claiming they don't care what people think (that may be true to an extent, but I have a hard time believing it absolutely).

I look forward to the thread.

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It's the modern day equivilent to the snake-oil salesmen. They tell you that you have something wrong with you and that it's not your fault, then they tell you that there is a cure and only thay have it.
Reminds me of all those Zoloft commecials.

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You are the source of all your problems. Plain and simple.
I don't think it is so "plain and simple".
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