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WHY SCIENCE IS MAKING LIFE BORING...

October 4, 2009
By OscarDonovan BRONZE, Cowes, Other
OscarDonovan BRONZE, Cowes, Other
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Favorite Quote:
You should try everything in life, except incest and barn-dancing.


I’m sorry to say it, but scrolling through this category makes me a little ashamed of being a teenager.

By the looks of things, most of us are intent on gabbling on about the news that (shock-horror) smoking, drinking and drugs can shorten your life-span. As if we haven’t been told enough already. Now, I’m not advocating a life that revolves around the next fix, cig, or flagon - but let’s at least enjoy ourselves. Without these three deadly sins, where would we be?

Where would art, music and our beloved literature be without drugs? How could the artist, musician or novelist survive without the odd hasty cigarette clenched between their troubled lips? Where would the weekends of stumbling, spewing and stupidity be without the litres of white cider and mysterious mixed spirits?

If we are all as clever as we would like to think, why is it that we still torture our bodies with these fatal excesses?

The answer is fun - doing stuff for the pure hell of it - it’s supposed to be what we (teenagers) live for. Now is the time to feast on rebellion, however petty, and believe ourselves to be invincible. So why waste it preaching to the unconvertible, when there’s plenty of sensible heads on aging shoulders to do that for us?

Let’s stop patronising each other, and just enjoy surviving. After all, good health is merely the slowest rate at which we can die!

The author's comments:
I know bad ratings are going to be inevitable (if anyone even reads this) but I hope that if you actually do give it a glance, you'll be able to see where I'm coming from. I understand the terrible affects that drink and drugs can have on our lives - but let's not forget the unforgettable and inspirational moments that they can provide...

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bnljack said...
on Jan. 25 2011 at 10:52 pm
bnljack, Vienna, Virginia
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excellent points. what is the point of life, if not enjoyment. if i happen to get joy from pot, who then has the right to stop me?

lyssa28 BRONZE said...
on Dec. 27 2010 at 6:01 pm
lyssa28 BRONZE, Las Vegas, Nevada
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Although i wont try drugs, your right. whats the point of being a teen if we dont take risks?!

on Dec. 27 2010 at 3:48 pm
Faceless BRONZE, Kennesaw, Georgia
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You Have Bewitched Me, Body and Soul, and I Love, I Love, I Love You. I Never Wish to be Parted from You from This Day On...

Beautifully written! (can't say I agree tho...) but Beautiffully written!!!

lollypops GOLD said...
on Dec. 13 2010 at 6:48 pm
lollypops GOLD, Pilot, Virginia
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Live

wow i never looked at it from this point of view drugs are still wrong

on Dec. 6 2010 at 10:12 pm
SemiVeggie SILVER, Bellevue, Washington
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Vous m'avez fait rire! (Vraiment!) J'aimais bien votre citation sur la bonne santé. Je suis d'accord avec vous que l'article a bien exprimé son idée, c'est juste que je ne suis pas de tout d'accord avec. J'ai destiné mes commentaires sur "la génération des medicaments" pour dire que si toute notre génération commence à utiliser de l'alcool et des drogues, c'est probable que l'histoire nous verra comme "la génération qui tout à coup a commencé à utiliser de l'alcool," alors "la génération des medicaments." C'est vrai que l'utiliser ça ne nous tuera pas, mais aussi, c'est en cherchant les plaisirs des drogues que les plasirs de la vie nous manque.

on Dec. 5 2010 at 9:05 pm
Opinionated GOLD, Brantford, Other
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~Change what you can and accept what you cannot change.~
~If you love someone, let them free. If they come back, it's meant to be.~
~Cease refusing to believe that in what you have created.~

La génération des medicaments? Je ne vous suis pas... Je trouve que l`article a bien exprimer son idée sur le fait que sans les drugs, l`alcohol et tout cela nous aurons beaucoup moins d`art et de `Fun`. Je suis d`accord avec parce que une fois de temps en temps, de l`alcohol et du `Weed`ca nous tueras pas. J`ai vraiment aimer ca dergniere phrase ``After all, googd health is merely the slowest rate at wich we can die!`` C`est tellement vrai.

on Dec. 5 2010 at 7:46 pm
regarding your comment:  It's actually "effects".

on Dec. 5 2010 at 7:30 pm
SemiVeggie SILVER, Bellevue, Washington
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Aux mes yeux, c'était pas de tout magnifique, et quand je l'ai lu, j'avais honte d'être une adolescente. Dans les yeux d'histoire, je ne veux pas devenir la génération des medicaments, tout meme si ça encourage les arts.

on Dec. 5 2010 at 7:23 pm
SemiVeggie SILVER, Bellevue, Washington
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Fair enough, thanks for the heads up! :) However, (and here I'm assuming that by 'smoked' you mean nicotine) Shakespeare, as an adult, was perfectly within his legal right to drink/smoke. (And he may have not even had to be an adult, my knowledge of 16th century politics is a little shaky.) Teenage authors living in the US -- and a lot of other countries -- are not. My point was just that a lot of great authors have created their works without hallucination-inducing drugs, although historically, a reasonable amount have also struggled with addiction.

More to the point, I don't want any of the writers on this site to read this article, and come away with the impression that if they start doing drugs it will improve their work, because that's simply not true. Although, given the rather vocal response to this article, I don't think that's something I need to worry about an awful lot.


on Dec. 5 2010 at 7:21 pm
SoulxFinder BRONZE, Cobourg, Other
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world. - Edgar Allan Poe

An interesting outlook. I really like this. Judging by the comments, the argument lies between " Yes, we should let loose" and "No, you can have fun without that stuff". I'm going to fill the blank space inbetween and say that teens grow up to be certin people based on who they were as kids. Everyone should just do their own thing. If you want to party, then party. If you don't, then don't. Basically - do your own thing. 

on Dec. 5 2010 at 8:36 am
magic-esi PLATINUM, Hyde Park, New York
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"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."
"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if only one remembers to turn on the light."

Although I do agree with you, Semi Veggie, that people shouldn't take drugs and the joy of writing is beyond that, I do have something to say about your comment. Shakespeare actually did drink, and he probably smoked, too. He may have been one of the world's greatest writers, but he wasn't really a good role model.

But other than that I do agree with your comment.


on Nov. 30 2010 at 4:03 pm
Daisja.J SILVER, New York, New York
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be you because no one can do you better than you.

I agree.Whats the fun in life when science is always their to try to answer or answer every mystery or story.Science kicks the fun out of life and makes me see why my science teacher is always so grochy!I feel sorry for her but someones gotta do it,right?

on Nov. 29 2010 at 8:47 pm
MadisonReneeJane GOLD, Norman, Oklahoma
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The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy. - Jim Rohn

I was thinking the same thing the other day... I love this!

on Nov. 28 2010 at 11:19 am
MirandaNicole SILVER, San Antonio, Texas
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Favorite Quote:
"'Sal, we gotta go.' 'Where to, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go!'" -On the Road, Jack Kerouac

I love this piece (idealistic, clever, passionate, all the things I adore). Really, I do. Whether or not I agree is irrelevant, because I truly don't know what I think--

It is all very confusing, substance issues, things of that sort. 


on Nov. 27 2010 at 7:30 pm
FlyleafFreak DIAMOND, Loveland, Colorado
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Favorite Quote:
"I have faith in fools;self confidence my friends call it"~Edger Allan Poe
"In this world of infinite insanity, your friends are the best psychiatrists you will ever have."~Me

Again, there are plenty of other things to do to have a lot of fun besides drink and smoke. And you, just because something feels good, it makes it okay. Just because were teenagers, drinking is okay. How long are we going to lean on that? If you can't do anything else but smoke and drink to have a good time, then you have about three brain cells

on Nov. 16 2010 at 6:28 pm
Opinionated GOLD, Brantford, Other
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Favorite Quote:
~Change what you can and accept what you cannot change.~
~If you love someone, let them free. If they come back, it's meant to be.~
~Cease refusing to believe that in what you have created.~

Read this carefully and with an open mind, please. Adults, no matter how old or how experienced, we are all different and have experienced different things. No adult knows everything, or is always right. Adults are nothing but us teens with more baggage and experience, but truly, no one adult knows much more than we do. 

We are living our lives, in our environment, learning things from what our choices, our time period and all else around us have brought us here. Our parents, adults in general are there to teach you the basics, they are there so that when you trip and fall, they will try their best to catch you with the knoledge they have aquired over their years of experience. But to much is different from each others lives to always follow what the adult figure says, as no one knows the answer or the right thing fro everything.

All of that to say, sure many adults say, don't do drugs, why? Because the government says so, why do they say it? Because if it were legalized, they can't make a profit out of it. They are corrupted, and so in my opinion it up to us, to rise and forge our own ways and laws, with the help of adults, but fix their mistakes and try new things. They aren't always right, especially in this case. (I am making reference to Maryjane)   


on Nov. 16 2010 at 6:13 pm
Opinionated GOLD, Brantford, Other
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Favorite Quote:
~Change what you can and accept what you cannot change.~
~If you love someone, let them free. If they come back, it's meant to be.~
~Cease refusing to believe that in what you have created.~

You already have so many other comments, so I dought this will be importamt. But I think the EXACT same thing but I am just astonished at how well you were able to structure it in a such a poetic manner! Bravo! C'était manifique!

on Nov. 13 2010 at 6:11 pm
OscarDonovan BRONZE, Cowes, Other
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You should try everything in life, except incest and barn-dancing.

a rhetorical question constitutes neither constructive criticism or comment, but cheers anyway.

on Nov. 13 2010 at 6:10 pm
OscarDonovan BRONZE, Cowes, Other
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Favorite Quote:
You should try everything in life, except incest and barn-dancing.

*him :D, thanks for your comments!

Lucy(: GOLD said...
on Nov. 13 2010 at 2:27 pm
Lucy(: GOLD, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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alright alright alright

this shouldn't be an arguement, but i've lost many friends BECAUSE of drugs. i agree with the article, drugs make emotion and show people a different experience of life, but its not essentail.

but yeah, most of the best rappers like kid cudi, mac miller etc all rap about drugs. fair to say.