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BTGBullseye

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  1. It's quite interesting.

    Interesting yes, but no more probable than creation when it comes down to facts known. (exclude all unproven theories like evolution, and there's really not much of anything known about the way everything started)

     

    Also, +1 for voicing my exact vent, the one I've had for years but been unable to put into words.

  2. 1. Future dreaming like me?

    Quite a lot of use have future dreaming... It's been beneficial enough that I knew the exact method that I was going to go through to meet a friend, only a year ahead of time, (7 when I dreamed it, 8 when I met him) and even to avoid an hour long argument that would strain my friendship with another friend. (it would've ended badly, so I decided to stop the argument before it got heated)

     

    That lucid dream of mine was poor luck and chance unfortunately. I've always wanted to lucid dream as well. I have a dumbass theory that I can somehow combine my lucid dream with my future dreaming and alter the future to my command. XP Probably won't work but I still wanna try.
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    I also have done a few lucid dreams... It helps to wake slowly. I unfortunately have a very security conscious mind, (immune to subliminals, suggestion, and breaking of any kind) and once it sets itself to a set of universal rules in the dream, I can't change them without something very bad happening. Last time I tried just making myself be really quiet while trying to sneak past a military patrol in a forest, and my mind decided to simultaneously drop nukes on the 3 nearest towns that I was trying to protect, and drop me into a bottomless sinkhole. I've come to the conclusion that trying to alter my dreams, even when I can, is not a good idea.

  3. Sorry for sounding moderator like. I was actually a moderator on another forum, so. Practice makes habit I guess.

    This forum is full of once-moderators... It helps keep the spam out.

     

     

    anwy2MPT5RE

     

  4. I never said it was the most effective method of treatment, just that what you said to do is already being implemented, apart from a 3-strike rule that is also there.

     

    Honestly though, they need to start a form of sanitarium designed specifically for housing and treatment of the seriously addicted... Padded rooms included.

  5. He was a member of the army reserve for 18 months.

    His first TV appearance was in Dragnet. (then again in it 5 years later) He also appeared in Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Twilight Zone, Rawhide, The Outer Limits, and Get Smart before he was cast for Star Trek.

    He was in 49 episodes of Mission: Impossible after Star Trek ended.

    He was in 11 episodes of Fringe, and even got a Saturn award for it.

     

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    Look at them sideburns...

  6. I've never been able to get into any C&C games past Red Alert 1.

    That is still my favorite of the series, even if my current computer refuses to run it properly.

     

    Honestly though, C&C 4 is fun, but it just doesn't belong in the C&C series as a direct successor to the strategy genre that the series has been historically. It could quite easily be set as a RTSRPG side-type in-universe game like Renegade was. (and it's really too bad they never made a sequel to Renegade)

  7. Also somebody somehow needs to make drugs look uncool for young people - making it freely available but associated with some stigma is probably a way to go. Like "only morons and duchebags use drugs" kind of thing...

    They've been trying unsuccessfully to do that for decades.

     

    Another thing that I think needs to happen is that when a person does use drugs, or does a crime while on a drug that they be treated as if they were sick rather than criminals. I think downright imprisoning people for having drugs is a really shitty idea. It helps really no one besides the people running the prisons and it doesn't help the person who's addicted at all. I think treating addiction rather than punishing addiction is a much better strategy.

    That method has proven to be massively ineffective. (they try it before prison) It's 3rd strike that sends them to prison, but the problem is, usually, they can get the drugs on the inside too. Also, the people who commit crimes to feed the addiction should go to jail on the first strike, but not for the length of time currently used in the system. Drug possession charges for drugs that don't cause physical dependencies is a major issue in the US right now, and is a major reason why marijuana is becoming legal in many states.

     

    Really, my opinion on drugs is that any drug that causes a physical dependence (tobacco, LSD, meth, etc., excluding ethyl alcohol) should be illegal without individual licensing and prescription, and drugs that don't (marijuana, etc.) should be made legal with the only restriction being age. (21 years old is a little high IMO, pun not intended)

     

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_dependence#Drugs_that_cause_physical_dependence

    http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/principles-drug-addiction-treatment-research-based-guide-third-edition/frequently-asked-questions/there-difference-between-physical-dependence

     

    Unfortunately I am unable to find a list of currently illegal drugs that don't cause physical dependencies.

     

    If you're wondering why I exclude ethyl alcohol from the illegal list, it's because it's already been tried and shown to be impossible to stop people from using it. (look at prohibition)

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