How the hell does someone get into that anyway? Seriously, how does that work? You’re at a party one night and someone comes up to you and says “Hey Bud, you wanna try some HEROIN?” “Hey yeah sure, why not?” “OK, all you gotta do is let me INJECT it into your vein...” “Oh WOW that sounds AWESOME! I can get AIDS from sharing that needle right? AWESOME!”
"Freedom" as in "I don't want your tired old morality". Rebellion is paramount!
Getting "high" is all you have left after you have hit the bottom of the long slide which began with an obsession with Happiness.
"Hey, BwanaNdege, what is wrong with Happiness?" you ask.
Happiness is great, but it is not fulfilling. Mankind started with thinking, "If I could only have enough food to eat, and a dry cave to keep out the rain, snow and cold wind...oh, and that saber-tooth tiger, too."
Now. much of mankind has enough food, clothing, shelter and safety. We are reasonably happy. But that is not quite enough, so we seek Success. That too, often leaves a slight emptiness.
Excitement, that's the ticket! Action Sports! Sports cars! Sporty Women!
When Excitement does not fulfill, "Crank it up a notch!" The goal becomes Thrills, then Kicks and, finally, Get High.
The problem is that we were created, in the words of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, "To glorify God and to enjoy Him forever!" As Nehemiah 8:10 says, "The Joy of the Lord is your strength."
Blaise Pascal, the French mathematician & physicist, said “There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.”
Too often, we try to fill that vacuum with Happiness, Success, Excitement, Thrills, Kicks, and eventually that final High. With each successive, less satisfying substitute, we think that an increase in quantity will make up for the lack of quality.
Bigger mud pies will never replace a slice of Strawberry pie with oodles of whipped cream!
The joy of the Lord, knowing that you are forgiven because of Jesus' completed work, is what we were created for.
(BwanaNdege will now get down off of the Soapbox - Thus endeth today's sermon. Thank you for your patience.)
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“How the hell does someone get into that anyway? Seriously, how does that work? You’re at a party one night and someone comes up to you and says “Hey Bud, you wanna try some HEROIN?”
From what I’ve been reading, it’s now people addicted to pain pills (Opiates) shifting over to heroin because it’s cheaper and more available.
It is drug culture. It does start with pot.
It’s a party social thing at the start.
People try white powders, snorting cocaine and meth. Usually they will snort heroin first, or smoke it off a cigarette or blow it in the the back of the throat.
They will enjoy and know people, usually cooler, who inject it.
They will try it.
Drugs are incredibly powerful and initially users have the best times of their lives when starting out.
“How the hell does someone get into that anyway? Seriously, how does that work? You’re at a party one night and someone comes up to you and says “Hey Bud, you wanna try some HEROIN?””
That’s pretty much what happens. If you’re moving in circles where drugs are common you see all sorts of things and get all kinds of offers.
Heroin doesn’t have to be injected. The powder can be heated and the fumes inhaled- “chasing the dragon”. And it can be snorted like cocaine. But if someone finds that they like heroin they’ll move on to injecting because it gives the rush that the other routes don’t.
Of course many people get addicted after getting morphine or other opioid pain killers and can't kick it.