Ha ha, you did it. Well done.
But still, anybody who throws away social, financial, and life advancement, to buy fancily advertised water, in cute containers, is not being smart.
Let us start with the silliness we can reach. We can move on to more complicated things later. This one is easy. Don't buy water.
Sugar is indeed addicting. Agave syrup is a non-insulin-spike-causing substitute. It isn't cheap, and it is calories, but it is not addictive.
People come to crave that insulin spike excitement. But that's not good for you. Diabetes and all.
And the soda machines are in schools, I think. That's why we are fat.
Yes, certainly. But what I meant was that the person should be asserting, visibly, to other people, that the old ways have friends, and he is one of them. No, God does not need any physical talisman to love you. But the stand should be taken. Among men. I am not for leaving voids. They get filled with something else. That is why I said it should be the simplest, smallest thing, not some big fancy deal, unless that's what you like. It is simply a fact that's who you are. You are on board. You can't be nothing. There is no nothing. It's either good or bad.
And fences matter. People fence and protect what matters to them. So protect this. By affirming it, no matter how discreetly.
And. Anybody who gets cross, "hey, not cool, what do you have that thing for?" may reveal who THEY are. You need to know that.
Cialdini?
Here is who he is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cialdini
"Cialdini was hired alongside many other behavioural scientists for the Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2012. He also advised in the early stages of the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2016."
Divorce behavior from outcome? Why? HOW? Behavior is never divorced from outcome. Well, people do sometimes kid themselves.
Nothing funny about this, and it is important that you wear a small stainless steel cross around your neck, even under your shirt. They are a few dollars online.
If you don't push back, this is what will fill the void. Ick.
No, it's common for young people to use them. The word experiment has a hallowed, pure-sounding history of intellectual inquiry.
Using an intoxicant is not trying to find out something. It is simply using an intoxicant. There is nothing to find out. You know what it will do, or you wouldn't use it.
Yes, it was throwing a match into gasoline. But you are not supposed to walk around soaked in gasoline. Even without the match, you weren't fine.
Drug use is temporary, rented insanity. It is impossible to argue with insanity.
Life got bad way back when drug use became common, as you say, in the Sixties. Once that was in place, the US was sitting blithely on the railroad tracks, assuming no train would ever run it over. But you aren't supposed to be on the railroad tracks.
We were sitting ducks after the Sixties. Just ripe for the picking. Ripe for an attack of this kind, the fentanyl.
People need to get a relationship and not need to do this to have company in their lonely lives.
Or, they need to learn that being lonely is not the end of the world. You can read a book or listen to some music or look at a movie on your tablet. How to be alone is a necessary life skill.
"Just don't let there be a first time" is something eight year olds need to memorize.
Some people have been saved by their innate anti-socialness, and their inability to stay up past eleven o'clock.
Nerds, geeks and other misfits survive.
Don't be so well adjusted. Don't like people and don't have friends. Then you can not use drugs.
We have met the enemy and he is us. (Walt Kelly)
"Drugs killed so and so," is a lie. "So and so killed himself," is the truth. The drugs, like guns, didn't jump into his hand. They are as inanimate as guns are.
Trump is an authentic sweetheart when he wants to be. He has put up a black homeless lady in Trump tower forever. He gave ten thousand dollars to a bus driver who prevented a suicide off a bridge, by stopping the bus and talking to the person. There are many, many such stories.
Quarantine means the Forty Days you had to wait to get off a ship docked in harbor. Quaranta means Forty.
They decided that anybody still alive after forty whole days either wasn't sick, or wasn't contagious. They were probably right. They were waiting for anybody sick to die off during the forty days, and the body to be chucked overboard, weighted, not buried in their soil, which also scared them.
Reasonable.
I don't see any Jews in there. That would be Yehudi or something. Maybe some jokester hacked it? AH I see what is bothering the software: the word "ludaei" is mistaken for Jehudaei or something. A J can be written l. Ha ha, funny. No, it's all right. No worries mate. But Lord save us, just as you say.
Prayer said.