u/FutureNothing1938

I recently was arguing with someone that thought support meant simply not harassing your friend in sobriety to drink.

in my mind that is not support, that is just basic, standard, being a decent human, much less friend. that is an issue of respect in my mind, not support.

I tried to argue that in my 7 years of sobriety, support has always meant planning dry events if you're gonna invite the sober person.... whether that means not having a drink at dinner, or planning an entire Christmas holiday to be dry... I consider this to support rather than respect because no one owes you this type of treatment. They are actually trying to be there for you even if it means sacrificing their own wants and needs. Whereas the other one I do believe regardless of what you are doing if you tell people you don't want to participate they should respect that decision... some light teasing is fine... but if they legitimately won't stop pestering you that isn't a support issue, its a lack of respect issue.

SO... im just curious... what does it mean to support someone in sobriety to you?

On the one hand i feel like they are pointless in an e-rig. the whole thing heats up at a uniform temperature and the joystick already makes it move around a little...

having said that... I like ripping fat dabs. some people mentioned that they do get more vapor with terp pearls in a different thread i read that was archived. other people said it didn't make a difference.

from what i read it sounds like one 4mm ruby terp pearl in the 3dxl was the choice of many people. it also seems like if you push the joystick to in one of these directions relative to the circle NW / SW / SE / NE, that it would definitely make it spin, however many people said they couldn't get their pearl to spin.

so... any experienced dabbers here that can confirm whether or not the experience is better with terp pearls? I literally do not care about it being more annoying to clean afterwards, i just want max vapor production.

obviously i can experiment on my own... so thanks for anyone who takes the time to share their experience.

hello all.... can anyone walk me through the logic of naturalism.

I truly don't understand how you can claim the existence of the universe as "past eternal" and then just conclude that it's always been there .. and there was no causation.

the person I was arguing with tried to say that Christians are the ones who contradict the first law of thermodynamics by claiming that there is a God that could create something out of nothing ... which I also disagree . .. I would say the Bible says there is a being outside of space and time that is incomprehensible to us, and that calling the creation of the universe "something coming from nothing," is a false premise, because it ignores the fact that the initial premise is "outside of space and time and unknownable." no one has a clue what God actually is, or the substrate from which he created the universe was.

I would argue that it's a much bigger leap to say that everything has always been here and there was no prime mover, than it is to say yeah there is probably a creator beyond our understanding.

Hello people of reddit. I come to you today because of a post I read yesterday, or possibly the day before. It may have even been one day before that, but I digress.

I have been smoking herb since i was 13. I am 37 now. I think I can honestly say I smoked 95%+ of those 8760 days. I quit 2 or 3 times for like a week max if that as a teenager. then I quit twice as an adult, each was for 2 months. Also, the first time i didnt piss clean even after 2 months, the second time it took a full 2 months but i did piss clean. so even if I say 200 days no smoking (which is being generous) that's only 2.2% of 8760... so 98% of my life from the age of 13 I have been high.

This is my third time quitting as an adult... and i never want to go back to being a habitual smoker. I havent drank booze in over 7 years... I said when i got sober that I knew I wanted to master myself, for me that meant alcohol and drugs, sex... also marijuana (eventually). This isn't about morality police either. I want control of my own body and brain. Anyways... the past few weeks i have felt like I was going insane. cant think straight... just straight up in outer space.

it finally occurred to me that maybe something inside me has changed. even if its just emotional security, self respect, and a new perspective... and not just my brain getting old... But I realized that being high is great when you give zero fucks, or when your life is already relatively disciplined. but when you're trying to focus and actually get shit done... hard shit... real shit that matters.... it just gets in the way. looking back im sure all the times i thought i can do whatever I want when im stoned, I was actually just oblivious to what a waistoid I was.

Realizing the marijuana served me at that point in my life for very specific reasons was huge... then again... when i quit alcohol... I told myself no pills... I will smoke weed as crutch for my emotional stability... but now... success in life has become too important to waste it being stoned.

One thing I will say is, I have contempt towards alcohol. and I feel beside myself when I think about a lot of other drugs as well... because i want them to be okay because they werent an issue for me personally, but realistically c, k, e, L, NO2, gooms, deem... all of it... people are getting fried out thinking they're gonna turn into ascended masters or something... so while i dont hate those things, and might even still do em if I was camping at a music festival... I certainly wouldnt encourage anyone to go down that path though. alcohol I do hate though.. high levels of contempt towards alcohol, shards, and opiates. Marijuana... no hate.

IDK if i'll ever smoke again. Quitting is uncomfortable as fuck for me. cant sleep right for 3-5 days, or eat right... literally to the point of feeling sick for both reasons. sleep deprived and starving... then I end up eating a large meal and passing out after usually staying up a full 24+ hours... when i wake up after that its gone.

I was board... I hope this is helpful to someone.

I have been experimenting with lower level comets in my COC and COEA.

I found that if I run lvl 14 and 17 comets (lvl 28 and 33 total) that my mana stays above 90%

however if I run 2 lvl 21 gems my mana stays above 90% the majority of the time. it only gets nuked on certain high hp rare packs, uniques like rogue exiles with lots of HP, and bosses....

in most cases everything dies immediately regardless.. but the whole reason I tried this in the first place was thinking better mana efficiency would mean exponentially more comets.

I lose 100-200k sheet damage on my comets and I have trouble believing I'm casting enough extra comets to make up for it.

I can say that my mana stays above 90% basically at all times, but it seems like running the higher level comets and just spamming some mana pots every now and then is the answer. most of the time everything dies anyways and my mana regens before I can even spam a pot.

when my mama gets nuked I guess I lose some damage from zenith deactivating... but I doubt it's as much as losing 4-7 gem levels....

anyone else figured this out already?

I am 5'7" and 130lbs. I started with a 100lb bag. my first session I picked it up and walked in place for a few steps then put it down and got around 10 reps. i probably could have done more but my legs started shaking so I called it.

I'm picking the bag up from a row position into a squatted bear hug, then standing up to standing bear hug.

today, my first real workout, I did 2 sets of 10 lift and carries. each cary was around 50ft give or take a little. back and forth the width of my back yard, which is small. then I did 30 incline push ups after each set, and finished with a rice bucket forearm circuit.

my only training prior to this has been jiu jitsu the past 6 years. I want to add like 15-20 lbs of functional mass... I'm pretty happy with my starting point. I been dealing with some shit feeling weak for the past couple years. feeling good about this style of training.

am I starting too hard? I know part of the theory is working hard. but I'm at around 70% of my body weight. it feels good to me. the plan is to give myself the time to heal, then keep improving each new sandbag workout.

I was suggested this by AI as an alternative to Aventus because I complained Aventus' longevity was lacking....

I actually think I like it more than aventus.

anyone else have thoughts on this comparison?