[Update: April 12, 2024— Actually perhaps my attitude in this post is too lenient. There are all sorts of different types of mentalities in the world and all can have positive aspects even though some can be argued to also potentially have negative aspects. For example if too many people adopt what could be called “overly individualistic” or even “selfish” mentalities (which perhaps I could be accused of), it would ultimately be bad for society.
It would not be good if everyone in society was any “single way,” but it would certainly be bad if “everyone” was in a particularly selfish mode.
Society does benefit from supposed “free thinkers,” but if that encroaches too much into adulterating proven effective conservative mentalities it will be very harmful, especially because that is being engineered to happen with malicious intent.
So actually the lenient attitude that I espoused in this post must be frustrating to some people.
It is frustrating to me that since the resolution hasn’t happened I don’t have real input of the perspective of other people, which is essential. For example perhaps the concept that I’m explaining in this update has already become widespread among many people in the situation. I certainly value what people think even though there won’t be “voting” in my organizations, so that is why it is important that the resolution happens first.]
I see that recreational marijuana may be legalized in Florida if it is voted for in November (link). I know that is a divisive topic and many people are opposed to that, and I assume that a lot of people who agree with the information on my websites are opposed to the use of that.
I’ve smoked marijuana in the past, and I’ve never had any types of substance abuse problems. I smoked it relatively recently also as people might even know. Prior to recently it had been a long time since I’ve done that, but I never actually decided to stop doing it.
Recently in the past months I was trying to decide if I should smoke it or not within the situation. I think I may have been somehow “expected” by some people out there to not do it, but I know that I will do it again in the future so I figured that I shouldn’t be a hypocrite and go ahead and do it.
I realize that many people have substance abuse problems and a lot of people know people who have substance abuse problems so they are very put off by the concept of using marijuana and often also alcohol, so I don’t really “advocate” for its recreational use even though I still do it sometimes.
Perhaps I should have just refused to do it and created an unspoken impression that I don’t smoke anymore while continuing to potentially do it in private now and then, but then there would be accusations of hypocrisy, etc.. And what then would the limits be to my acting like that? Would I also have to act as if I’m opposed to drinking beer for example?
In any event I don’t like the thought that my sometimes using it could put off a lot of people who would like to be involved with my organizations. I would definitely prefer to be discreet about it, but I don’t know the parameters of my situation in order to know where discretion can actually exist within it. I rarely do it in any event.
As far as legally, I think it is a bad idea to legalize the recreational use of it, but rather there should be limits in place such as people needing a prescription to get it as apparently is the case now in Florida. There should also be ordinances in place to ensure that it is as discreet as possible, for example I think towns should outlaw references to it on storefronts even if they are legally selling it to people with prescriptions.
I also think businesses and some professions should be allowed to discriminate based on drug use even if the employees have a prescription to use it (so perhaps instead of a “prescription” it could be a “permit”), and the penalties for driving when under the influence of drugs and alcohol should be severe.
I eventually would like to make an article that lists issues with the legality of it which fairly gives the arguments for the various viewpoints, and the article could also give a platform to the concept of the benefits of choosing not to use marijuana or any drugs and alcohol in any event.
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Fasting works so well, I can’t recommend doing that enough. When the week is finished I’m always ready to get going again with a more planned and healthy eating schedule. This time I’m going to switch to a mostly raw food diet and likely stick with that for a while rather than fasting again in the following week as I was previously thinking about doing.
I suppose I shouldn’t really call what I’m doing “fasting” though because I’m not doing it properly enough due to my drinking coffee. So instead perhaps I should just call it “not eating”.. I’m still losing about the same weight though, so I see value in what I’m doing anyway. I wouldn’t recommend doing anything like that for longer than a week in any event.
I’ve recently figured out an excellent additional aspect to that which eases doing it quite a bit, where I make a “broth” in the microwave using water, balsamic vinegar, hot sauce, chili-lime seasoning, some salt, and even a bit of vegetable oil, which tastes exactly like a great vegetable soup.
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It is very strange that the articles on the second page of this website have not been showing even though the articles still exist! I’ve been too busy with other technical tasks to find why that is.
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When I speak with people and they ask me what I do for a living, I simply say that I’m a “graphic designer” and I “work with computers,” which is not untrue. I also say that I “work with clients” which is technically true.
I think in many cases people might be expecting me to mention my websites, but I don’t want to mention that because the resolution hasn’t happened yet, and I don’t want to have political discussions with people in the situation before that happens. I’m sure that people understand but I do feel a bit deceitful by not mentioning the websites anyway.