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Why? Why use substances?

Why would one eat a greasy meatball sandwich over a lean turkey sandwich? Perhaps the individual wants to escape the bland taste of turkey. Maybe the person is simply eating to sustain life, and really does not give any thought to whether they choose the 'healthy path', or the 'unhealthy path'. Or is it probable that the individual, while still enjoying a turkey sandwich, simply prefers the more indulgent option? Each individual has its own mental layout of each choice they make in life—not choosing included. I maintain that there is a driving force behind everything we do. Whether one realizes it or not. For myself, let's just say that turkey is a bit too bland for my taste.
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Sometimes recreational use, but more entheogenic actually.

We take care of our body and mind but sometimes intend to forget the Soul.
 
we take drugs for the chemical reaction they produces within our bodies imo, same when we eat food, drink, take vitamins and breath in and breath out etc. drugs are chemicals and we are constantly consuming multiple other chemicals to maintain homeostasis, imo its almost if we are programmed to take in and process chemical reactions, its apart of living and having a body.
 
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no one lives in "the real world"

we only live in different interpretations of an inner reality

clinging to one general interpretation is boring
discovering other interpretations of the same inner reality is wonderfully interesting
 
I think there are so many reasons people use substances... so, so many. I can only speak personally, but I use substances, depending on the substance, mainly for expanding consciousness, self discovery, spiritual/therapeutic purposes, to have fun, etc. I spend more of my time in this reality than alternate ones so I've never been too concerned. I don't use drugs to escape this reality. I love experiencing different states of consciousness.
 
I choose to use drugs for two reasons.
One reason is just pure curiosity,I've always been interested in how substances can change how you feel and I enjoy being on the counter culture side of things.
The other and main reason I use drugs is just because I enjoy changing how my brain chemistry feels. I hate how I feel when I'm straight,I love the feeling of how my mind and body feel as they change after taking drugs.
 
2c-goinsane said:
we take drugs for the chemical reaction they produces within our bodies imo, same when we eat food, drink, take vitamins and breath in and breath out etc. drugs are chemicals and we are constantly consuming multiple other chemicals to maintain homeostasis, imo its almost if we are programmed to take in and process chemical reactions, its apart of living and having a body.
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Drugs help you catch an alternate viewpoint on topics important to you, so they should be used in this manner to escape the same everyday consciousness you experience.
 
For experiences that one can't get just going through life (to change my self for the better)
Also because I didn't know what I was getting into
 
At first, i think its more of an expansion and enhancement of your reality. Your not escaping from anything, unless you feel trapped in sober reality. In that case you need to be careful not to see drugs as an escape and learn to expand and feel less trapped without drugs. Its like trading one poison for another, eventually you'll become trapped in a drug induced reality trying to escape from what bothers you in sober reality.

The true value in drug use is variety, discipline, and utility. They're all just chemicals changing your neurotransmitter concentrations/hitting receptors to open new doors of perception. Its walking through one door and staying there that can get you in trouble. Not that that can't happen without drugs either. Its just losing desire to "keep digging" in any case. Kinda like no psychedelic holds true spiritual enlightenment if you have to keep using it to hold onto the feeling. Learning that those doors are always there, always available in unlimited quantity and variety w/w-out drugs that is the real paydirt imho. Drugs/sobriety can help get you there, or hold you back depending on the person.
 
The reasons why people use drugs morph over time. For most I'd presume that the original reasons for using are relegated behind a new set of reasons that have developed as a result of using.. rationalizations basically. Also when people tell you why they supposedly use you do not know whether it is them talking or the drug/urge to use that is talking. They might say they know what they're doing and that it's all kosher.. but 20 years down the line they might sober up and look back and say "nah.. I was kidding myself. I was wrong".. they realize the drug used them, not the other way around.

I started with alcohol at 16 (social pressure), then cannabis which morphed into a several year long habit. I took mushrooms, LSD, and DMT during this time (and other random drugs on occassion), but my use was sporadic and infrequent (except for cannabis). I didn't have the confidence to turn away from it all because I wasn't very social or developed and couldn't hold my own.. I needed to fit in and develop. I wouldn't change the way it happened.. I've learnt a lot.. but also made a few mistakes. But looking back on my cannabis habit I can see my reason for using it changed over time.. at first it was fun, novel, had a laugh with friends, but then it became habitual and I did because I was addicted to it and didn't want to grow up.

I'm now sober (25yr old) and have no desire to return to ANY of them. I realized that actually I LOVE being sober, being clear and focused, and that the problem is not so much with me but with a world that sucks fucking balls and that I need to forget caring so much about society (it's fucked) and just do the best that I can for myself and those I can actually touch (family, friends, locals etc).
 
To feel a normal range of emotions, rather than fatigue, lethargy and a general flatness.
 
possibly because we are transcendent beings, who while in this material world will look for something tangible to feel a sense of transcendence with. the process of addiction to drugs, their possession, the ritual of use, and lifestyle are all methods which attempt to help the mind escape the physical/situational, securing the ego in its learned comfort-zone; no matter how uncomfortable psychically and mentally. the soul of the individual, looking to proceed through its(your) evolution of existence does not, because using drugs sex and material things as pleasure is a transgression, crippling that natural course of progression.

drug addiction is the most destructive pathetic thing i have seen. every addict i know is either "bi polar" "depressed" "anxious" miserable to crippling extents, and it is all directly related, to the dope.

its like sharing a room full of big mean crazy babies!
 
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