Teetolism does not make for human happiness; it makes for the dull, idiotic happiness of the barnyard. The men who do things in the world, the men worthy of admiration and imitation, are men constitutionally incapable of such pecksniffian stupidity. Their ideal is not a safe life, but a full life; they do not try to follow the canary bad in the cage, but the eagle in the air. And in particular they do not flee from shadows and bugaboos. The alcohol myth is such a bugaboo. The sort of man it scares is the sort of man whose chief mark is that he is always scared.
Mencken in Damn!
Waiter, please make it a double on rocks!
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Are you coming for the beer party I am throwing
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Yes of course !
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Let me get a bigger table, I am sure we will have many guys around the table
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Make room for me too!
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Your place is set next to mine
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You’re in trouble now. Unless I get the place on the other side.
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That was reserved for you. The rest can make themselves comfortable in the remaining available spaces
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I’ll raise a glass to that!
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Cheers 🍻
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so, what are your favorite tipples? For spirits, I like Rye, and there is a nice small distillery’s gin I can get from Philadelphia that is not too junipery.
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When I drink beer- I like to take malt
For wines and spirits- Red wine
spirits- Johny Walker,
Vodka- smirnoff
I don’t like brandy much
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Ah, first sip, not chug, then hold it in your mouth, blending it with your saliva, then allow it to slowly slide down your throat.
I recommend Courvoisier VSOP
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And for cryin’ out loud, don’t mix it with anything!
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You are so loud shhhs
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I will remember this
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And for an after-dinner sweet liqueur (again, for sipping), I can’t recommend Irish Mist too highly —
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Maybe I’ll send Colorstorm a bottle. He’s stopped flirting, the tease.
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I’d like to think I’ve driven him underground, but just like Whack-a-Mole, he keeps popping back up. At least, since I’ve been pestering him, his posts have turned from sappy crap, designed to tug at the heartstrings, to vitriolic posts condemning those who criticize religion.
In his recent post, about the Book of Esther, I proved that it is widely accepted that it is historical fiction, that Uncle Mordecai was so-named after the Mesopotamian god, Marduk, and Esther herself, after Ishtar, the East Semitic Akkadian, Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility, love, war, and sex.
The problem is, that in spite of proclaiming in his “About” section:
He deletes some of my comments, redacts the names of authors in others (so his cult members can’t research for themselves that what I say is true), and adds editorial notes to still others – the shepherd must keep his sheeple at all costs, otherwise where will the kudos come from? And he LIVES for kudos and that dopamine (thanks, Neuro) rush that accompanies them.
I can live with the honestly religious, like TruthTangible, YourModerateMama, and NewPolyanna, but I can’t tolerate hypocrisy!
Don’t get me started on CS, it’s too early in the morning here to start drinking —
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Good to know you’ve gotten to him. The tease. P.S. he’s also an idiot. First class.
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idiot of the first degree as Mark Twain would say
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That about section of his must represent high irony. I think all he is after is those who agree with his bs
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Cheers to that! First time I got drunk was on alter wine. I and a fellow alter boy stole a bottle from church and got shit faced, then sick, in the alley behind the church. Puking up the “blood of Christ to be” was quite the initiation into the world of alcohol. $Amen$
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You were high on blood of Jeebus, not a bad high I guess
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Except for the puking part. 🙂
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I don’t like to throw up. Such a bad feeling
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A little wine makes the heart rejoice (Ps 104:15 for them who need justification) . A little more and the whole world is much more fun!
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Haha, indeed, the whole world would be rejoicing
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I’ll drink to that!
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Take another shot on me
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I completely agree, there’s something dried up and humourless about a life without alcohol. Unfortunately for me, over the last decade or so I’ve somehow destroyed my body’s ability to process alcohol. I tried having half a glass of beer on Friday (small post-pregnancy weekend reward) and am still paying the price today. Also, I just saw a drunk man buying a bottle of cheap vodka at 1pm, and felt sad.
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We ask our colleagues who don’t drink what they do with their lives!
The only medication I know for such is take more alcohol, over time the body will register you are not playing games 😄
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Haha, I’ve been trying that for a decade!
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Then my friend I can only say you are a slow learner 😁
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Or have a broken body from years of over indulgence…
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In that case then, let the body recover.
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Well, I’ve just had 9 months where I couldn’t drink.
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Those nine months must have been very confusing to the body too. Maybe you are still recovering from being two
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“I just saw a drunk man buying a bottle of cheap vodka at 1pm, and felt sad.” – That would make me sad too, liquor stores open MUCH earlier than that —
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Haha
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Hilarious.
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Only you 😀
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What?!!
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it was clearly not his first bottle of the day.
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In that case he had gone beyond telling the difference between good liquor and commonplace
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Not to steer anyone away from your post, Mak, but has anyone seen this, from TA: Christians Against Dinosaurs … I wish I was joking
You HAVE to check out the 3-minute video by the little Christian girl —
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No problem Arch
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It just occurred to me that some who are not TA members may not be able to access the video, so I thought I’d hijack the thread (like I’ve never done THAT before!) and bring it over here:
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As I said on TA – beauty may be only skin-deep, but stupid goes ALL the way to the bone —
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I think there is some level of stupid that should be criminal
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You will be investigated for cases of hijacking and attempted hijacking
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Scariest part about that video is this girl will one day give birth to her own children and pass her stupidity along to them via her motherly words of wisdom. This gal has GOT to be related to Colorstorm somehow.
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And after watching it, I now need several drinks.
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Or to SoM
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Maybe she IS SoM! Now wouldn’t THAT be a pisser?!
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A total pisser. I haven’t met another insufferable idiot as SoM.
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CS is close, but still no SoM.
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I don’t see Cs a lot as I do som. There is Brandon who is as smarmy as it can get. Bunch of idjits
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Oh, yes. Brandon. He’s a dick. Really. A walking penis that’s not been bath in months. Odd, nasty, and very stinky.
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Ark told him he is doubly stupid to have reconverted to Christianity and I agree
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I didn’t know that about him. What an idiot. Guys like that need to keep their mouths shut because when they open them, nothing but stupid comes out.
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He first pretends to be all nice then shortly he goes all stupid on you
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I got that from reading his crap on John’s blog. I simply do not see the point in engaging in the hundreds upon hundreds of comments and responses with people like him. It is useless meandering that only proves some idiots simply love the sound and look of their own words SO much, they will puke them out until all semblance of reason, sense, respect, and decency have been obliterated completely. Nothing is gained by such tripe. Blowing off steam by calling them out on being idiots last two or three comments at most. And even then, it is a waste of the energy it takes to write them.
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Entertaining them for long is the source of the problem. They begin to think they are saying something intelligent
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I could not agree more with that statement, my friend.
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I think part of the mystique around alcohol is the conviviality. For me though, I just think some drinks taste nice. I don’t have a sweet tooth, so Spanish lager and cava suit me fine.
I use vodka (Smirnoff blue) for twingey teeth and mouth ulcers, loathe brandy and always have done, recommend Spanish gin, Larios, and think Islay single malts are the best. Except I normally stick to beer …
But still, ’twill be a fine party.
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Your seat is reserved just next to Em close enough for a chat.
I’m certain it will be a great party
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I’ve committed myself to a lifetime of temperance following a rather embarrassing situation.
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How em-bear-assing for you, my friend. I see you even shed your red vest and stumbled about naked with the world watching. That’ll learn ya! On another note, why hasn’t a Big Foot ever gorged itself on fermented apples and come stumbling into town to be filmed like this bear did? Hmm, I guess maybe Big Foot isn’t real after all. Go figure, eh?
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Yes, it was extremely shameful. I was so inebriated I couldn’t even maul those impertinent youths on the school playground who made fun of my bald spot.
As for Bigfoot:
I cannot forecast the action of Bigfoot. It is a hominid wrapped in a mystery inside a giant fur coat. But perhaps there is a key. That key is Bigfoot’s survival interest.
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Wrap anything inside a fur coat, give it a key, and you’ve a hell of a mystery on your hands. What, exactly, is under the coat? And why, oh why, is it carrying a key? Some mysteries we’ll never have an answer to, especially those that fuel paranoid conspiracies. 🙂
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call something a mystery and you may soon have apologists for it
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Sorry I brought it up. (Get it? I APOLOGIZED for bringing it up. Hence, I’m now an apologist! See?) 😀
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Hahahah! I knew it wouldn’t be long
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(Drum roll, please)…. I’m sorry it took even that long!
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— said the nudist after he walked into the fan —
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As a fan of nude people, I can tell you, it sucks when they walk into you, especially if they haven’t showered.
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on the contrary i like nude people, they are usually exposed to the elements, get cleaned by blowing wind and driving rain
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I like em too, but Mak, after weeks of not using soap, even the heaviest of rain and the strongest of winds can’t clean the B.O. offa some of the nude folks who’ve walked into me. I guess I should stop following them around, but, I am such a big fan of them, it ain’t gonna be easy to do. 🙂
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maybe that is your fault. Don’t follow the same nude guy for long. Follow different ones and you may find they are mostly clean
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Been following only nude women. Maybe I’ll start following nude men and see if they’re any cleaner. If I can get Colorstorm to join me, I’ll be set for life!
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am not sure colostrom would want to follow or be followed.
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I’ve a strong feeling he follows little boys around just waiting for the opportunity to jump on them. Everything about that dude screams, “PEDOPHILE!!!”
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am not sure of many things, but I know I don’t like his kind. Insufferable idiots
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Reminds me of this
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WOW!!!
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I think the definitive response to the title, in defense of alcohol, is that if you feel you HAVE to defend alcohol, you clearly haven’t had enough alcohol.
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And another 6 points goes to our drinkin’ buddy, Arch! TOUCHDOWN!
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That maybe true, but at least I have had a little
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As a former professional bartender, I say: “And good cheers to you, sir!”
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cheers to you too friend.
You, my friend, are a man of many talents.
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🙂
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Am I too late to get a seat at the table? If not standing room only will do. Till I fall down…
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You can never be too late to a party am hosting
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Just a thanks for the pr,
appreciate it.
Some of your fellow travellers visit and see what it is like to live in the daylight. You are providing a great conduit.
As to strong drink? Nothing stronger than living water.
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Alcohol is good, just get a little high and you can’t count the number of bathroom visit you will make, all the toxins in the body are released after a good drink
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Did you notice I said nothing bad, evil, or pernicious about alcohol? Just noting there is something better.
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There is a story of someone who said they have never been too sick to require water. To each there own
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“Living water” – Sounds like water teaming with microorganisms. I think I’d boil it first – just sayin’ —
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It’s always safe to boil water
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What is “happiness”? Can anyone help?
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“What is “happiness”? Can anyone help?” – There are some things in life, Poet (and if you’re a poet, you should already know this), that tend to defy definition, largely because they are derived subjectively, and vary from individual to individual.
I’m reminded of what the late iconic jazz trumpet player Louie (Satchmo) Armstrong once said when asked, “what is jazz?” He replied, “If you have to ask, you’ll never know.”
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In my own definition, happiness is the perpetual absence of apprehension and the presence of an “oceanic feeling.” (I will have to explain that).
What’s your definition my friend? I hope you are not trying to promote hedonism.
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I think we’re all hedonistic to one extent or another. But my basic philosophy, and I’ve said this before but not to you, is that the shortest path to finding one’s self lies in losing one’s self in the service of others.
I find that works for me.
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There are many ways to serve and one can find joy in serving others.
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