“Had trouble concentrating.” Oh, the horror.The “marijuana business” has a goal besides selling the drug. They want to “reduce stigma” so they can sell more. I saw a person recently who had just used marijuana who admitted to me he had trouble concentrating. Not good.
That is simply wrong. The Church has been concerned about social justice down through the ages and in the modern sense of the term at least since Rerum Novarum was promulgated in by Pope Leo XIII in 1891, all the way up to the present. It has nothing to do with lots of sex and drugs. (Good grief, where do people get this stuff?) You have social justice mixed up with popular music, I think?False. Totally false. The run-up to the end of the 1950s saw an increase of danger to the world and the prospect of social upheaval was far off. If it wasn’t for people appearing in our neighborhoods in the mid-1960s, peace and quiet and stability might have remained. But the mission was clear: destroy the family, destroy authentic male-female relationships, legalize abortion… It’s all there, year by year.
And attack the Church from the inside. “Social justice” is the fake term for lots of sex and lots of drugs.
Ok. Now I understand. Dismissed.As someone in their 20
I am aware what the strategy was. Was it really realistic? Would you argue the US would wage that conflict in just the same way, if the decisions were to be made over again?Do you know why the Vietnam War started? Apparently not. The government talked about a “domino effect” regarding a Communist takeover. The marines landed in 1965, the Chinese detonated their first atom bomb the year before. Containment was the strategy. That is reality from the time.
This.That is simply wrong. The Church has been concerned about social justice down through the ages and in the modern sense of the term at least since Rerum Novarum was promulgated in by Pope Leo XIII in 1891, all the way up to the present. It has nothing to do with lots of sex and drugs. (Good grief, where do people get this stuff?) You have social justice mixed up with popular music, I think?
I think Jackie Robinson and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, would quibble with your idyllic concept of the state of “social upheaval” in the United States. Those “quiet” neighborhoods weren’t so quiet when the “wrong” kind of people were allowed to move in. If the prospect of social upheaval seemed far off, it was because people were largely oblivious to how untenable the social order was. If you think that social world had any chance of going on indefinitely or even that it should have, I think you are very much mistaken. Stability based on forcibly separating neighborhoods by ethnic group was not worth preserving–and yes, it was an imposed separation. (I’m going to trust that you won’t even argue that “everybody wanted it that way, everybody liked it.”)
It has uses. That does not argue in its favor as a habitual recreational habit.“Had trouble concentrating.” Oh, the horror.
If you don’t like marijuana, then don’t use it. For myself and a lot of other people I know, marijuana has helped us deal with the stress of both daily life and our respective medical ailments in a way that actually improves our overall function. It specifically helped me to stop cutting and abusing alcohol, potentially saving my life.
The problem is that here in Oregon there are people who talk about marijuana use with essentially no recognition that it can be problematic. It has gone over to the other extreme entirely. (Well, the other problem is overinvestment in marijuana shops. They can’t all survive.)Obviously if it’s affecting concentration at work then that’s something that needs to be addressed. However, providing it as an example of how “dangerous” marijuana is really doesn’t cut it for me. Alcohol (and even caffeine) have done much worse things to me, but that doesn’t mean that other people are incapable of using those substances in a healthy and responsible way.
Yes. I didn’t date until I was 16. There were no introductions needed to anyone’s family, as my parents knew all the other families. If you think the danger in letting young people date is that they “know what sex is,” you are really mistaken. The mental hygiene films in the schools weren’t documentaries. No, the issue was not “sexual perverts” who wanted their way. The issue was the fiction that only sluts and sexual perverts had sex before their wedding night. Good grief, even my parents spent time together without a chaperone. They were married in the 1940s, and Dad went to the seminary high school.I am talking about recorded history, not recollections. I remember the “cool kids” at my Catholic school. And I remember the public school kids that would come by. The documented fact is sexual perverts wanted their way. Girlie mag.s of the late 1950s were literally sold under the counter. The graphic, gynecological sex photos that appeared throughout the West in the 1970s were funded and published by persons unknown and they knew it would increase temptations and cause addictions. You appear to not want to address this at all.
Girls in high school knew what sex was. That’s why their parents wouldn’t let them date until they were 16, and then, a strict deadline to the guy about bringing her home, about introducing her to the family. And chaperones. I am convinced you know little actual history about dating at the time.
Mom and dad did tell their sons and daughters about sex.
It is so tempting, isn’t it, to try to figure out if someone needs a handicapped decal (and if so, why)?No it’s common sense. There is no need for a special handicapped spot when one is able to walk all around town. To deny this common sense is ludicrous. I’m not talking about you on a bus. I’m talking about a parking spot. We can’t be skeptical? We have to be naive about everything? The fact is people do take advantage of the system. If you can’t see this then I’m through discussing it.
None where I grew up, unless you count the neighbors of my friend whose house burned down before they had to move.There’s that fake word - diversity. There were no blacks, Asians and other people of color until today? Stop the fake narrative.
No internet forums to waste my day on in 1950, that’s for sure, lol…And convenience? There’s too much convenience.