Oh man, you were drunk, AGAIN⁉️
Seriously, why do you smoke that stuff⁉️
There is a very good reason being intoxicated isn't a good idea. I am not going in the usual direction that many take of feeling sorry for the pathetically drunk or high person. Oh no, I feel sorry for the people in their lives that suffer them in such an inebriated state, that they are either incapacitated, or wandering around for somewhere to urinate, vomit, dance, or find other people to commune with that are equally crazy out-of-their-minds on dumb-them-down substances.
Why, oh why, would anyone want to be dumbed down?
I will answer my own question. People who imbibe regularly to the point of being drunk, weren't taken care of early on in their lives. They had absentee parents that selfishly indulged when they ought to have been responsible for their dependants. Hell, it is learned behaviour when kids drink like little fish, after watching their parents have a whale of a time with booze. The same is true for inhalers: seeing parents suck on a cigarette, vape, bong, spliff, makes it a o k for baby too. Sucking it back is what drunks and druggies do... they are pros at proficiently getting the nasty job of intoxication done well, and often.
If it sounds like I am taking shots (no pun intended) at those that imbibe shamelessly, then good, because that is exactly what I am doing. Someone has to tell them that they have done irreparable damage, choosing drink or drugs above and over, relationship. All real relating requires a responsive exchange, one person to the other: without responsibility in relationship, there ain't nothin' holdin' that sloppy joe together.
Who, pray tell, even wants to deal with a sloppy joe? It is a poor persons state of being, a second best existence, when one person is the upholder while their partner is perpetually the falling down. I have heard so many excuses for alcoholism and getting high, but really, it is escaping relationship; a desire to not be accountable to other and perhaps, take seriously that other may be mortally wounded by the person that loves to dodge duty.
The collateral damage is extreme for those that impair their own lives by carelessly imbibing. Their actions leave a mark in learned behaviour that is repeated generationally, and eradicating the pattern of continuance of debauched thoughts and behaviours requires godly love. Godly love puts others first, and would not think to injure anyone, especially ones offspring, by soaking or smoking the mind into oblivion.
Snap out of it, drunko, if you happen to be reading this and think you aren't hurting anyone by over pouring booze down your throat more often than you care to admit. Stub out that smoke, throw out that vape, flush the weed, you drug addict, and stop pretending it is your life and yours alone that you are damaging. You are not a welfare case where everyone else has to chip in to ensure you make it to tomorrow. Oh no, you are an adult that has to face facts, and start taking care of your intoxicating mental illness, the one called SELF-INDULGENCE.
Ok, so I think I got the yuck out that has been sitting like a garbage heap on my soul. Here is what The Bible has to say about sobriety:
1 Peter 4:7
1 Thessalonians 5:6
1 Peter 1:13
Ephesians 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit
Titus 2:2
1 Timothy 3:2
Romans 12:3
Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whomsoever is deceived thereby is not wise
2 Timothy 4:5
Isaiah 5:11 Woe unto them who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
Proverbs 23:29-35 Who has woe? who hath sorrow? who hath strife? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder. Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
I will end with a WARNING, not to the drunks, addicts, and morally reprehensible, but for those that are invited to spend time with the like:
1 Corinthians 5:11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat
PS: There were many more verses from scripture that I could have added but alas, if you look up the ones I posted here, you will get a measure of what God thinks about losing the mind to substances, and the cost incurred by those who do.
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