deadlines?

[3bob]

You only have until today to make a totally optional $ donation to so and so, after that you will then only have until Friday of next week and if that is not enough of a deadline then you have until the first Monday of next month... so don't forget!

 

Then again certain astrological alignment's only come around once in a lifetime and you better not miss those... umm, well, perhaps ;-)

 

...or how many chances does a blind groundhog get at an acorn?

[Brian]

A common and surprisingly effective marketing ploy, it is (unfortunately) a common management style, too! A particularly bad one, I might add, as it quickly becomes recognized for the "crying wolf" it really is.

 

To answer the question from a marketing perspective, as many chances as it takes if the groundhog's got cash...

[mindtooloud]

I don't believe in $ how else can i donate other than $?

[Marblehead]

I don't believe in $ how else can i donate other than $?

With your wishes for the best?

[mindtooloud]

With your wishes for the best?

Fortunately my wishes for the best don't make corporations rich.

[Marblehead]

Fortunately my wishes for the best don't make corporations rich.

Or make you less wealthy.

[mindtooloud]

Or make you less wealthy.

I miss doing drugs.

 

Were drugs used in the army illegally?

[Marblehead]

I miss doing drugs.

 

Were drugs used in the army illegally?

I never did drugs.  Always recommend against their use.

 

Yes, drugs were readily available most places in the Army.

 

However, alcohol was very inexpensive (no taxes) so most people just stayed with the legal alcohol.

[mindtooloud]

I never did drugs. Always recommend against their use.

 

Yes, drugs were readily available most places in the Army.

 

However, alcohol was very inexpensive (no taxes) so most people just stayed with the legal alcohol.

A bit surprising how drugs were readily available in some places or the army who is supposed to keep law and order. (Idk if they kept law, but they're employed by people who made drugs illegal.)

[9th]

I miss doing drugs.

 

Were drugs used in the army illegally?

 

Soliders would be prescribed amphetamines to stay awake and so forth, as well as weirdo cocktails or mixtures.  There was also a number of drugs that were tested on soldiers without their knowledge, or labelled as something else. Pretty sure it is still happening up to this day.  The movie "Jacobs Ladder" is actually based on a true story, insanely enough.  The US govt tested a drug known as BZ or 3-Quinuclidinyl benzilate on a bunch of guys during the widespread "MK-ULTRA" program and it didnt go well (to say the least).

 

Drug use (illegal or otherwise) happens almost everywhere there is a sufficiently large enough group of people.  Its human nature to seek consciousness alteration - and plenty of other animals are known to seek out fermented fruits (alcohol) and other such things that have such effects (cat nip, etc.). 

 

 

 

(then again lemurs seem to be quite diligent in their meditation practice, both with and without substance use)

 

 

 

 

[Marblehead]

... but they're employed by people who made drugs illegal.)

 

... many of whom use them themselves.

 

 

I mean, right now Clinton is being questioned and she can't remember anything she did while Secretary of State.

Edited September 3, 2016 by Marblehead

[mindtooloud]

Soliders would be prescribed amphetamines to stay awake and so forth, as well as weirdo cocktails or mixtures. There was also a number of drugs that were tested on soldiers without their knowledge, or labelled as something else. Pretty sure it is still happening up to this day. The movie "Jacobs Ladder" is actually based on a true story, insanely enough. The US govt tested a drug known as BZ or 3-Quinuclidinyl benzilate on a bunch of guys during the widespread "MK-ULTRA" program and it didnt go well (to say the least).

 

Drug use (illegal or otherwise) happens almost everywhere there is a sufficiently large enough group of people. Its human nature to seek consciousness alteration - and plenty of other animals are known to seek out fermented fruits (alcohol) and other such things that have such effects (cat nip, etc.).

 

 

 

(then again lemurs seem to be quite diligent in their meditation practice, both with and without substance use)

Glad to hear you say "Its human nature to seek consciousness alteration"

 

I agree 100% despite having quit drugs for a more spiritual path.

[mindtooloud]

... many of whom use them themselves.

 

 

I mean, right now Clinton is being questioned and she can't remember anything she did while Secretary of State.

You've never used any drugs, but have you ever been drugged?

[Marblehead]

You've never used any drugs, but have you ever been drugged?

Not as far as I know.  My job in the Army was too sensitive for them to play with my mind.

[silent thunder]

Soliders would be prescribed amphetamines to stay awake and so forth, as well as weirdo cocktails or mixtures.  There was also a number of drugs that were tested on soldiers without their knowledge, or labelled as something else. Pretty sure it is still happening up to this day.  The movie "Jacobs Ladder" is actually based on a true story, insanely enough.  The US govt tested a drug known as BZ or 3-Quinuclidinyl benzilate on a bunch of guys during the widespread "MK-ULTRA" program and it didnt go well (to say the least).

 

Drug use (illegal or otherwise) happens almost everywhere there is a sufficiently large enough group of people.  Its human nature to seek consciousness alteration - and plenty of other animals are known to seek out fermented fruits (alcohol) and other such things that have such effects (cat nip, etc.). 

 

 

 

(then again lemurs seem to be quite diligent in their meditation practice, both with and without substance use)

 

 

 

I spent a summer observing the lemur family at our local zoo.  It started as a project on behavioral interaction and family structure in primates, but became my obsessive joy, to go and sit with them, one I continued nearly every single day of that summer long after the project ended.  Their baseline manner of interacting and behaviors stood out.  They struck me as incredibly intimate, loving, joyful and mischievous in a sweet manner.