It doesn’t take someone who spent his career assisting people in need to recognize someone who has gone completely off the rails. I would really like to be able to help you and wish that I had more time to figure out what has happened to make you so bitter. I have been going through your posting history looking for clues. To be honest what you write is typically so negative and nasty that it is exhausting to read.
I suspect that you have difficulties getting along with just about everyone but have some real problems when it comes to women. Do you remember this conversation?
wastoute said, “A wife is the most precious blessing God has to offer. A male who does not get that is no man.”
You responded, “Some level of physical control and punishment may be warranted for the more unruly ones. For example, a good hard spanking would not necessarily be out of the question. That’s in the real world, of course.”
from: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3441466/posts
Or this?
“Exactly. This is nothing but attempted shaming of the next generation to be sucked into the family court slave machine. So what if a guy lives at home? How does that harm our society in itself? “
“For that matter, women should be made to live at home until they are 30 or married. Save us a lot of the headaches that come from the all of the whoring around going on in the country.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3436040/posts
At least those were posts where you were not attacking another poster, but you have a pattern of writing things that make it appear that your life is a pointless endeavor and that you never were able to establish a permanent relationship with a woman and raise a family. I haven’t come across a post where you talked about helping someone else and that is what I was looking for so I could say look, here is something really worthwhile that you did. But your posts are mostly just an endless stream about everyone other than you being stupid.
There is nothing that I have found in your posting history that indicates that you ever have reached a grown up level of maturity. I actually just feel sincerely sorry for you. You seem to be a lost soul and I truly wish that you will have a “come to Jesus experience” that will help turn you around. I would like to have been able to come up with something more profound.
I will be praying for you... I don’t give up that easily.
Mr. High and Mighty didn’t address me so I will now address him.
I’m a 30 year glaucoma patient that has exhausted all prescribed medications, combinations of medications and surgical treatments in an attempt to manage this incurable, insidious disease. The side effects from some of those medications were horrendous but I tolerated them because the alternative was blindness.
Glaucoma isn’t just needing a new pair of glasses, its loss of all peripheral vision, sometimes referred to as tunnel vision. That’s the last stage before total blindness. I have already reached that last stage in one eye and was well on my way to that stage in my other eye.
My ophthalmologists suggested medical marijuana and it has truly been a miracle drug for me. Even after 26 years of conventional medications I lost some of my eyesight every single one of those years.
I have been using medical marijuana for four years and have had no vision loss during this time period. I wish the prohibitionists would please explain to me that is somehow just a coincidence.
Near the end of my use of prescribed, conventional medications I was using 4 different eye drops 4 times a day. When using that many drops you must wait approximately 15 minutes before applying each set of drops. When you are finished with the rounds it takes about 30 minutes to one hour for your vision to stabilize. That amounts to about six or more hours a day every single day. It became a full time job, was exhausting and robbed me of my life.
My medication now consists of eating one delicious, sight sustaining cookie twice a day. I enjoy my medication with a nice cup of tea. The side effects are happiness. Call me a drug addict or junkie and I will laugh at your willful ignorance. Attempt to deny my medication and I will deride your arrogance.
Some people speak of God as if they are His authority here on earth. I thank God every day for the natural substance He has provided that allows me to look in awe at His beautiful creations for just a little while longer. The sky, stars, flowers, birds but most of all the face of my first grandchild.
Best post of the thread, IMO!
Maybe you feel guilt about all the stashes of hard drugs you stole over the years when you were showing up at dead junkies’ houses?
This is a very typical paranoid theory similar to those concocted by many long term marijuana users.
A number of Freepers on here described EXACTLY how marijuana has helped their medical problems, and you just ignored everything they said and told them you knew better and that marijuana is only for junkies.
I certainly have never made any such statements and have not called anyone here or in other marijuana threads a “junky”. I have relatives, and close life long friends who have are long term users of marijuana for both “medical reasons” and for “recreational purposes. It is from these relationships and my experience interacting with long term pot users at work that I base my conclusion about the negative side effects of long term pot use. The marijuana users here are the ones who should be made aware of the side effects observed by others whether or not they are using it for medical purposes or recreation.
I pointed out the ridiculous reasoning of a study you cited, making NO OTHER COMMENT, and from that, from ONLY THAT, you decided I was a junkie who expected every one in the world to take care of me. You created an entire fantasy about a person you don't know based on a single sentence. LOL
This is the quote that you are referring to:
“Marijuana use was also linked with a variety of factors known to increase cardiovascular risk, such as obesity, high blood pressure, smoking and alcohol use. After researchers adjusted the analysis to account for these factors, marijuana use was independently associated with a 26 percent increase in the risk of stroke and a 10 percent increase in the risk of developing heart failure.
“Even when we corrected for known risk factors, we still found a higher rate of both stroke and heart failure in these patients, so that leads us to believe that there is something else going on besides just obesity or diet-related cardiovascular side effects,” Kalla said. “More research will be needed to understand the pathophysiology behind this effect.”
It was made extremely clear in the quote above that the results of the study were mathematically adjusted to cancel out factors “such as obesity, high blood pressure, smoking and alcohol use.” that are strongly associated with marijuana use. But that they still found a “26 percent increase in the risk of stroke and a 10 percent increase in the risk of developing heart failure.” Without these adjustments, the actual risk of stroke and heart failure is much higher than that among long term pot users.
Yet you responded, “LOL. So the big risk of marijuana is that it might lead to smoking tobacco or drinking alcohol? What kind of nonsensical reasoning is this? If the tobacco and alcohol are a problem, why not make those illegal instead? “
I assumed that you were only pretending to be stupid, so I replied with a playful remark. Your ability to spew out nastiness and make up stuff that you attribute to others is impressive and has managed to confuse a couple other long term marijuana users here. After taking a closer look at your posting history I am still not completely sure what to think, other than you seem to show all the negative cognitive issues that I would normally attribute to long term marijuana use. If you are really unable to understand the meaning of the quote that was the basis of your initial response to me then you defintately have a severe cognitive problem.