"Well ya see, Norm, it's like this... A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo, and when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells, but naturally it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers."
As explained on an episode of Cheers by Cliff Clavin to his drinking buddy, Norm Peterson
O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!
William Shakespeare, Othello
"Acid is not for every brain... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain." -Timothy Leary
"Herb like fruit. Keep you healthy, mind clear." -Bob Marley
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." -Tom Waits
All know the Way, but few actually walk it.
Bodhidharma
These teachings are like a raft, to be abandoned once you have crossed the flood. Since you should abandon even good states of mind generated by these teachings, how much more so should you abandon bad states of mind!
Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Triple Diamond CLeanser
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This stinks of drug justification, and although Cliff Clavin is a post man, I don't know if he's the greatest role model.
And those other guys...
I guess what I'm getting at is your time and research could be better spent. Not to say I don't like alcoholics, or people who experiment with drugs, a wise women told me that there is a time and place for everything.
But on the other hand...it's sad to see such a great mind go to waste.
Don't let these drugs define you Mr.Tiger.
(this lecture is now over)
drink for thought?
what are we to make of this?
that you're going on a long period of cleansing?
or...?
p.s. i read today in le journal that moses was probably on psychotropic plants when he got the 10 commandments.
Hooray for those that don't follow the rules!!!
Hip hip, hooray!
Hip hip, hooray!
huh? rules? what rules? whose rules?
being a follower of the booze and drugs path comes with a whole set of its own dogmatic rules.
and don't kid yourself-- it's not freedom--it's just a different sort of rule-following that masks itself as freedom.
as someone with a family history of alcholics, i can tell ya first-hand there's nothing pretty or glamorous about addiction. nothing much enlightending about it either.
p.s. re Moses, etc-- real, shamanistic drug experiences, unlike the typical north american "let's get blasted" variety, involved long periods of ritualistic cleansing, fasts, mediatation, isolation, etc.
i don't mean these comments specifically for Tiger, but for all of us.
anyone can walk to the vendor and buy a six-pack and a joint off the kid in the parking lot.
there's nothing enlightened or enlightening about that.
a genuine experience of englightenment is about a lot more than getting loaded, imo.
...which is i think what Tiger alludes to at the end of his post-- that all paths become a trap if followed too slavishly.
So I guess the next question is, "Smoky, have you crossed the flood?"
I am the flood.
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