Hello friends. Some of you may have realized by now that I haven't been online in quite some time. I have decided to abandon my side accounts, (this one included), and am moving everything to my main account. I would love to keep all of you as my friends. If your interested send a friend request to my main account. Cherubim Aurora . Thank you and goodbye.
“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book, or you take a trip, or you talk with Richard, and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom(when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this(or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death." Anais Nin
It has now become politically correct to discriminate against smokers socially with isolation and ridiculing behavior, and economically with higher taxes and other costs. The result has been that smokers have systematically been stripped of their civil rights, denied their employment rights, and reduced to second class citizens as smoking in public has been made illegal in most states. The ongoing anti-smoking campaign is not about public health, drug abuse, or teen smoking. What it is all about is money, control, and jurisdiction. Over the past 30 years the anti-smoking factions has systematically and incrementally changed the perception of the American public from one where smoking was an enjoyable activity to one where now smoking is viewed as "an addictive habit" on par with shooting up heroin or smoking crack cocaine. What began as a campaign to encourage smokers to respect the wishes of non-smokers has evolved into outright hostility by anti-smoking fanatics with the segregation and demonization of anyone who chooses to smoke.
I could go on and on and rant for pages on this. But I want to hear your opinions. Negative or positive I am interested in what you have to say. Do you smoke? What is your opinion of people who smoke? How do you feel about the info I just gave you? etc.
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