The 'Intoxicate' is a survey of all the major drug types that are used to alter consciousness. It goes through each category of drug and talks about its psychological, behavioural and social effects. It is presented in the form of narrative highlighted by personal experience, and the anecdotes of others. ( Although the narrator is aware of academic knowledge in this area.) The narrator's intention is to locate these drugs within the context of life lived from the 1970's to the 1990's, rather than as a separate area of study. As well as considering the effects, personal and social, of recognised categories of drugs, such as hallucinogens, amphetamines and cannabis, it also includes sections on everyday drugs such as nicotine, caffeine and tobacco. Although this work is presented as a narrative, it is based on enough knowledge to make it authentic ( I believe). I would hope it adds something to the debate on drugs in modern life, and I would like to think it is also enjoyable in itself as a narrative.
The hardest changes are the ones you have no choice’s in!! Found my self on the sweet end of a bad deal. I wasn’t only given money, and every thing you can buy with it, but the free benefits that went with it. What trouble could there be in making money? The humdrum life of a nine to five was easy to want to give up, but not like this! These first memories are of how it all started off badly with the amount that would have made a great nest egg towards a little place in the woods where I could just fish my life away. With a good woman next to my side I would make a family and be a grandfather by fifty. The first thing I needed to do was fmd that woman, but the property, and learn how to fish. When I went from alone to not enough room it was so different, but not bad either. What kind of screwed it up was to many people knowing about it just at the same time. I would have never been seen in these areas alone afraid that some one would see me and I would loose the only job I got. Now to think about it I would have been better off with not placing that first bet. Well hells bells I did and the things in that business will never be the same again. Thank god that some of the scum that was there is gone now but it will only slow down the flow of want to be “s”. When you don’t have them you want them, when you have them they aren’t what you asked for. The though that more then one is a blessing? There was fun in the learning of that lesson that cost even more then just sweat and tears. “Who would think that the one that screwed you would end up where she did in the end!” Sir George Brandon
This book by the author of 'Progress and Poverty' will doubtless be read with much interest on this side of the Atlantic. The name of Mr. Henry George is now a familiar one to both sections of the Anglo-Saxon race, and they really have no reason to be ashamed of so robust and genial a son, sadly mis guided on many points though he is. Enthusiasts there will always be with an easy method of curing social discontent — men who do not take sufficient account of the difficulties and real conditions by which life is circumscribed, and who dream that by uttering a new formula the gathering evils of the world can be charmed away. Naturally, it is to be regretted that such men have not more of the judicial faculty, which can see all the sides of a complicated question. But enthusiasm and the judicial faculty are seldom associated in the same mind ; and, as we cannot do without the enthusiast, let us be thankful for Mr. George, who is a sincere and noble man, proclaiming earnestly what he believes to be saving truth. For those who may think of reading this book, we hope it is unnecessary to state that Mr. George has no sympathy with the blood-red anarchy which seeks to overturn altar and family and all the existing institutions of civilized society. Instead of disturbing the sacred traditions, Mr. George is evidently a man of strong religious faith, who in all sincerity supports his theories of social reform with quotations from Scripture. Throughout his book there runs a vein of cheerful optimism ; of the cynicism and scepticism which mark so many of the revolutionary class there is scarcely a trace. Nor can we agree with those who think that Mr. George's pet idea, which here reappears, of the nationalization of land by the confiscation of rent is a dangerous one. In a country like ours such a proposal is so extravagant and unpractical that it may be dismissed as harmless. The real danger seems to be of a very different kind — the danger, namely, that the colossal blunder of Mr. George may hide from us the valuable truths or suggestions of truth that may undoubtedly be found in this book. 'Social Problems' consists of twenty-two chapters, each of which treats of a phase of our social condition. It is written from the American standpoint, and a number of questions are discussed which can be rightly appreciated only by those who have an intimate acquaintance with American affairs. But most of it will be quite as interesting to Englishmen as to Americans. The treatment is more popular than in Progress and Poverty ; it is less labored and controversial, and, it must be said, less sophistical. The book is marked by the same eloquence, the same sympathy with the claims of labor, and the same wide and often true insight into the great industrial movements of our time. In these qualities, and not in his theory of the land, lies the strength of Mr. George. He has evidently been a shrewd and sympathetic observer of the social condition of his own country and of ours. He is inspired with the poetry of labor, often tragic to a terrible degree; he has felt its pathos, and knows its dreary monotony, and its subjection to vast economic influences over which it has no control — all the anarchy, in short, that results from the free play of individualism and of unrestricted competition. Mr. George has watched with his own eyes the effects of the most extraordinary development of industry and population that the world has ever seen.
Rhythm based music was an integral part of the cultural life of the U.K., if not the whole Western world, in the last decades of the Twentieth Century. It was intense, tribal, riven by factions, yet driven by passion. It was the starting point for many as they sought to make sense of life, and to move onto other areas, such as religion, politics, leisure, relationships, lifestyle, if not to build their own identity. Official histories of the period do not reflect this fact. And partisan accounts only reflect the particular bias of their writers. But you can always attempt to give the flavour of the experience while admitting the shortcomings of passion. Contained herein are five stories from five different perspectives. These try to give an honest sample of experience from their point of view. For music was a way, a means, and an end, to many of us.
This earnest and eloquent Letter to the Pope is by far the most remarkable utterance which the Encyclical of 1890 has evoked. The Pope could not have found a fitter controversialist to oppose him, for Mr. George meets him on the same basis of metaphysical theology, and appeals to the same authority of Scripture and St. Thomas of Aquino. And the whole letter seems, in its manner, curiously to echo the Pope ' s own dignified ecclesiastical - Latin style. Mr. George feels that the Encyclical is directed more strongly against his own “single tax" panacea than against what is vaguely called Socialism, which in a moderate form it favors. The Pope expressly puts property in land on the same level with property of any other kind, and expressly maintains that private property in this wide sense is a “natural right” of man, prior to the formation of any State. Mr. George, like the Pope, believes in “ natural rights; "but he works out this vague and treacherous conception in his own way. “The right of property," he says, “attaches to things produced by labor, but cannot attach to things created by God. Thus, if a man take a fish from the ocean he acquires a right of property in that fish, which exclusive right he may transfer by sale or gift. But he cannot obtain a similar right of property in the ocean, so that he may sell it, or give it, or forbid others to use it." Does Mr. George mean that the fish was not created by God ? He can hardly expect his Holiness to believe that; nor are any of us likely to believe that it was “ produced ” by the fisherman in any sense in which a great deal of land has not been produced ” by human labor. The antithesis of God or “ Nature " to everything that is done by human effort runs through all Mr. George ' s arguments. “ Socialism in all its phases, " he says, “ looks on the evils of our civilization as springing from the inadequacy or inharmony of natural relations, which must be artificially organized or improved. In its idea there devolves on the State the necessity of intelligently organizing the industrial relations of men, the construction, as it were, of a great machine, whose complicated parts shall properly work together under the direction of human intelligence. This is the reason why socialism tends towards atheism. Failing to see the order and symmetry of natural law, it fails to recognize God.” Mr. George seems to think that the work of human intelligence goes on in spite of God, and is somehow outside “Nature.” This, though a very common way of thinking, is very questionable philosophy, and the Pope would hardly approve of it as theology. Mr. George undertakes a hard task when he tries to persuade the head of the Catholic Church that “ interest is natural and just, ” while land - owning is wrong. But he makes a very strong point when he shows that the Pope ' s argument, “ that what is bought with rightful property is rightful property, ” could be used to justify slave - owning as easily as to justify property in land.
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George Carneal, author of "From Queer to Christ," grew up in the '70s, raised by a Southern Baptist minister in the ultra-conservative Bible Belt. For years he struggled with his Christian faith and a same-sex attraction. George shares his painful journey through a queer culture fantasyland filled with drag queens, drugs, and dangerous situations, a secular world at odds with homosexuality, in addition to a religious world that is hostile to homosexuals before discovering healing, joy, and peace in Christ. Perhaps sharing his journey through the eyes, and mind, of a confused child dealing with a same-sex attraction will give some insight into the pain and difficulty of navigating these two worlds. George would eventually spend 25 years immersed in the homosexual lifestyle (mostly in the Los Angeles club scene) and shares the pitfalls of that life. His story is not about glamorizing a life he once lived. This is merely his journey and what he learned along the way. Deliverance from that bondage is possible. There is hope in Christ! George is a frequent speaker at churches and conferences, has appeared on numerous television and radio broadcasts, as well as contributing quotes to online articles for LifeSite News, Christian Life Magazine, Tennessee Conservative News, and The Christian Post. For more information, please visit: http://www.georgecarneal.com
This book is a collection of three scripts. The first is the Brain Game. This concerns the efforts of a short-sighted, freelance, charlatan surgeon, to bring his method of brain transplantation to the Worlds' attention. The trouble is nobody takes him seriously. Therefore he has to work surreptiously and take funds from dodgy financial wheeler-dealers. Then there is the story of a depressed, unemployed actor. This man is desperate to go out with his attractive flatmate. In his desire to impress her, heperforms a ventriloquist act with his big toe. She loves it. Unfortunately her love only extends to his toe and not beyond. She persuades him to go on stage with his act, which is a great success. In the meantime shemakes plans, along with others,to run off with the actor's toe, and break up the showbiz partnership of miserable,sulky personand bodily part.But events do not quite pan out as expected. Finally, there is the story of three upwardly mobile friends. They believe they have finally acheived their goal of middle class, respectablilty when they are invited to a wine and cheese party in Hampstead. Unfortunately the household turns out to be a den of vampires.Two escape, butthe sporty oneis kidnapped. They go to enlist the help of a fearless vampire hunter. But end up with a drunken old reprobate to guide them. They eventually kill the vampires and retrieve their friend, by luck rather than judgement. Along the way they learn some shocking truths about Nineteenth Century Liberals, the class sytem, history, and why gardeners tend to be werewolves.
GPC BOOK II. One of the most inspiring and deep philosophical books of all time: "The Bible". Powerful wisdom. Provoking thoughts. View my special collection of 42 quotes from this ancient text. Created imagery from "YouVersion's Bible App". Whether you are new to the Bible or a Bible scholar, this collection should speak to your soul and have a profound impact on your LIFE. Every page is a work of art! Wise people know that wisdom can be gifted from any source. My hope to you is that a little bit of this ancient philosophy, will help society thrive on these basic principles. With infinite gratitude and appreciation, Thank You. @georgesphilosophycorner
With the materials that the famous authoress has left behind, the editors have endeavored to form an autobiography (if the term may be permitted) of George Eliot. The life has been allowed to write itself in extracts from her letters and journals. Free from the obtrusion of any mind but her own, this method perfectly shows the development of her intellect and character. By arranging all the letters and journals so as to form one connected whole, keeping the order of their dates, and with the least possible interruption of comment, the result was a narrative of day-to-day life, with the play of light and shade which only letters, written in various moods, can give, and without which no portrait can be a good likeness. This volume contains all three original books and the complete lifespan of George Eliot from her first letter in 1838 to her death in the year 1880.
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