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Fascinating. You dont know about the other side, but you seem to know how bad it is. Sorry, but if you dont know about it, dont talk about it. Yes, alcohol h

by lynx23 3y ago

Fascinating. You dont know about the other side, but you seem to know how bad it is. Sorry, but if you dont know about it, dont talk about it. Yes, alcohol has pretty bad effects on certain people, but condemning every sort of social gathering with drinks like you do, without having any experience, is just strange. Feels like a priest giving advice on sex, just dont do it...

ramraj07 3y ago
It’s a good skill to cultivate to try and guess how your life will be after you make some permanent choices. I have always been thoughtful about those and have generally had a good track record guessing how my life changes after each (moving to a different country, moving from academia to tech, moving from single life to a relationship etc). There’s always a possibility that I’ve missed on something by not drinking, but I’m yet to hear any person articulate that thing to me.
- ihateyouall3456 3y ago
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- getwiththeprog 3y ago
  I think you've hit a nerve here! Turns out people do love their 'ways of life'. It's also interesting that with a PhD in biomedical engineering, this is the conversation people choose to have. As for what alcohol can give you that you don't already know about... It is the 'joy of being a dickhead' the 'wild abandon' or the 'abasement of self' in a communal ritual of shared identity. Some might go so far as to say that the 'revels of dionysus' or 'the bacchanalian' form an intrisic part of civilised identity where that which is proper is upended. Drinking together makes us human and civilised - for the very reason that drinking is choosing to leave civilisation behind. Is there a line then, into this baccanalian, that can be crossed - where the party turns to the wretched vomit, the fool, the car-crash? Yes - there is this line, and how many of your detractors have crossed it - more than once?

by lynx23 3y ago

ramraj07 3y ago

It’s a good skill to cultivate to try and guess how your life will be after you make some permanent choices. I have always been thoughtful about those and have generally had a good track record guessing how my life changes after each (moving to a different country, moving from academia to tech, moving from single life to a relationship etc). There’s always a possibility that I’ve missed on something by not drinking, but I’m yet to hear any person articulate that thing to me.

ihateyouall3456 3y ago
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getwiththeprog 3y ago
I think you've hit a nerve here! Turns out people do love their 'ways of life'. It's also interesting that with a PhD in biomedical engineering, this is the conversation people choose to have. As for what alcohol can give you that you don't already know about... It is the 'joy of being a dickhead' the 'wild abandon' or the 'abasement of self' in a communal ritual of shared identity. Some might go so far as to say that the 'revels of dionysus' or 'the bacchanalian' form an intrisic part of civilised identity where that which is proper is upended. Drinking together makes us human and civilised - for the very reason that drinking is choosing to leave civilisation behind. Is there a line then, into this baccanalian, that can be crossed - where the party turns to the wretched vomit, the fool, the car-crash? Yes - there is this line, and how many of your detractors have crossed it - more than once?