John Kintaro

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Randroid#External_Links Is one place "these people" hear about the forum, whoever runs the webserver should just redirect referrer "Encyclopediadramatica.com" to a wholesome image of goatse.

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/...15&from=rss I'm not sure what to make of this, as a programmer I think the patents office has been pretty silly, allowing patents for things incredibly simple over the last few years. Of course, there are things in software that aren't simple like compression methods (MP3) that have every right to be patented. It is things like the classic patenting of a bloody blinking cursor (yeah that actually happened) that I find silly. I don't really understand patents all that well, so I don't really understand what this recent move could mean.

Yep, I am not sure what kind of judgement it is based on but it is all pretty damn vauge.

My doctor can review my case whenever he wants. The public mental health system here has become a vicious gulag in my eyes. The government have given them power by law to act almost lawlessly as doctors. I don't mind doctors, I have a great private shrink. I will be able to get rid of all this and have been working towards it. I can get private health cover and a real doctor with real motives (medicine) instead of the sole motive of sacrafice (altruism). I want a doctor, not a fucking saint. It has taken me quite a while to save up and once I am done hopefully my new private doctor with all the powers of the previous ones (because a degree should really let private individuls have the power to decide if I am worthy to vote and earn money). The public health system has to much power when it can make me unable to earn, and unable to vote. It has done both to me for no good reason. I have never broken the law, yet I am criminally insane according to these idiots. All I wanted was better grades.

I was diagnosed with ADD at the age of about 9 years old. I am to put it simply, an impulsive person. They had me on dextroamphetamine which is a stimulant drug which is known to help Children concentrate. I took my medication, got great grades and became the class clown in primary school. In mid highschool (I was about sixteen) I had been off my medication for over a year however I started to become pretty depressed. While I was at home every weekend programming, everyone else was out having sex and I hardly knew what that meant. I got into drug use from this I feel, actually, these days it seems that the large amount of anti-drug propaganda served as advertising. Because it was published public knowledge (or fallacy) that if you did drugs you would make lots of friends and have lots of sex, blah blah. This propaganda about drugs stereotyped them. There are many sites available on the Internet this century on drugs, and on drugs like my ADD medication that would get me high. When I was young and sexually frustrated drugs just seemed like an obvious answer to the problem. I have this tendency to do things on a whim, and it basically what ADD is, it is people who act on impulses and their surroundings rather than their intuition at times and is considered an impulsivity disorder. Basically though the drugs seemed like a plug and play solution to my people problems, something which they actually worsened as on drugs I manage to make a complete fucking fool out of myself. The rise of ADD seems reasonable, because attention span problems are something which I despise (and others obviously do), so I willingly still to this day take drugs to make my attention span a lot better. It is reasonable because there is a market, some of the drugs work. The fact is before the rise of ADD there was no medication indictated to help people pay attention in ways like they do now, something has been invented and it treats another invention, ADD, which is valid because it is real: a lot of children with ADD not on medication get poorer grades and in more fights than a lot of children with ADD on medication. It is simple science. However I feel that because I played around with the ADD drugs I am a lot less likely to do any other drugs. Stopping drugs was pretty hard, if you ever worry about your brother keep in mind most drug users discontinue use before serious damage occurs, the minor damage seems to go away pretty quickly except with more serious drugs like meth. The one and only thing I know that gets people off drugs is staying busy with something. Most popular illicit substances create pleasure; they reward a person like we reward ourselves psychologically in normal circumstances, except they reward them for doing nothing. What I am trying to say is that drugs get you by doing nothing, happily, and the more I thought of that I realized I wanted a function in this world and I stopped doing them by creating myself a function, something to do. Drugs became mundane for the same reason they were once so liked by me, I did the drugs to relieve bordem and stress but ended up doing nothing because of them. In those times I saw desire for material benefits as some mystic sin, something I cannot imagine them as anymore. I used to be into socialism and all that jabber. However, the lack of material benefits and instead a simple pleasure led me the other way, now I live for materials (computers, cigarettes, my own survival) by being as productive as possible. Objectivism was the biggest motivator for me, because now I know that no matter how crazy I can seem, if I can continue to be productive and continue to be useful people will question my quirks less, people won't care. It has all proven to be true. Drugs make you do nothing by rewarding your sense of pleasure for no reason. When I began to comprehend the senselessness of this getting off drugs was easy. However I don't feel this way about every drug, some drugs like LSD can be used responsibly to alter you perception in ways that can be positive. I am not saying reality is something to be masked with chemicals, because with a drug like LSD you do a lot more than that. It isn't so much about what it does with reality as it is about what it can do with your own thoughts. To people who would never touch drugs altering reality to generate "interesting" thoughts is pointless, however, it is not so much about when you are influenced by the drug but after you are influenced by the drug LSD you find reality a lot closer than you once did - after you see a world with it taken away from you. Yeah, thats what I have to say about ADD and drugs. Another thing I have noticed, is a lot of people with ADD have problems with anxiety. People with problems of anxiety tend to enjoy drugs that relax them, especially cannabis. About every kid I know including myself who has been diagnosed with ADD has also done cannabis. I'm sure I have only scraped the surface on what drugs and their related motives to do them.

I want to get the Fountainhead, I've also read Anthem I just forgotten to mention it. At the moment I would say I have a worry, which is basically how to apply everything I have been learning from reading this stuff. I used to be a kind of hoodlum, and now I just feel like a lowly robber, ex lowly robber I guess. Not that I have robbed anyone, just for too many months of welfare payments. When the government give you welfare at 17, and you don't do anything except smoke pot and homework it is a little difficult materalizing where that money comes from which is simply other people's pockets. The other issue I have is the impossible criteria in my goals at the moment. Simply, I am forced to work illegally on the Internet doing programming because Australian Welfare for people with mental health issues is that it is morally wrong for me to have some fucking pride for once in my life. They think that me working would be an ammoral act of slavery. It was at the point I turned 19 and wanted a job I learned all of this bullshit a public health system doctor has put against me. It is illegal, for me to work. It is perfectly legal for me to get $14k a year of taxpayer dollars. Interestingly also, my right to vote has been taken away by a doctor who got angry at me because of certain views. Essentially, I have no rights or obligations and I can break the law in almost any way I want and get away with it. That is a problem when you are young adjusting to the world. This country has ruined me, so hold Victoria against me. Damn this whole fucking Government. This is why someone else, not me, will blow themselves up one day. I am one of a few too many people in this shitty situation when I am perfectly able to do a lot. All I can do, is wait till they review my case. Note: all of this is related to self loathing crap, but I had to get it out somewhere.

Note: This is a work of pure imagination based upon memory. This is an opinion essay. We all have minds and the paradigm of which I use is my own and is not described as anything other than the title of this essay. I do welcome any debate or criticism to my ideas and my interpretation of history.

Ayn Rand's views on homosexuality I feel were influenced by popular psychology at the time. Homosexuality used to be considered a mental illness. I certainly cannot agree with her ideas about the issue. I think anything anyone does to their own body is their business not mine. I think the issue with homosexuality is a simple issue of human politeness into the lives of other people, I think we should be polite and let them do what they want. It is a simple moral, behind manners.

My name is John, a few months ago I read We The Living which was amazing, and I am nearing the end of Atlas Shrugged. I am twenty years old, I plan on studying business at the end of this year. I am very good with computers, mostly programming related tasks. I can do a lot more than just that, of course. I live out in Australia in the small town of Latrobe Valley. I once lived in the outer suburbs of the city.

Thanks, I'll probably be sticking around.

Thanks, that makes a lot of sense. I am away from my addiction and I am strong enough to help her. I have set myself up so I have all the time in the world to study, and experience. However I have never been addicted to the drugs this girl is on I see an obvious path for her to leave them behind. I will supply her with any books she needs for school I think will be the agreement I make with her. Thanks for your consultation of my issue.

I do watch out for it! I spent an entire youth wasting my time helping low-life idiots, in no exchange. The difference with this is it is hard to know how to value someone who cannot cope on their own. I do not like helping people when there is no way they can help themselves. The good thing about this girl, Annie, is that she is getting some sense into herself. She has gotten charity, without being a religious nut, to do rehab. She clearly wants to help herself, all I want to do is make sure that by the time she has gotten out of the hole she has dug with needles she has something to make of herself. I should probably give her some kind of responsbility she can handle.

I am twenty years old. I have been a drug addict for four years, about six months ago I cold turkeyed the only drug I was left doing which was cannabis and I manage to stay away from it most of the time. Do not get the wrong impression here, I am hardly looking for advice and care because I can look after myself. I am very keen on Objectivism, something I have only started learning about the past few months. Before then I was interested in Zen Buddhism. I delt with a Buddhist Temple in my suburb, they helped me get off drugs with various mediation techniques which have worked in calming me. I helped them because my skill is programming and UNIX/Linux, so I could help them with their computers. My dillema is how to go about helping other people, I have so little to exchange with others yet for some reason I despite myself if I am ever selfish - yet reading about Ayn Rand's philosophy: being selfish made the world (would be the conclusion I can come to in life.) You see, I know a lot of people on drugs and many of them are quite useful to me despite their problems, they are good friends. However, I constantly find myself sacraficing things I shouldn't to keep them on their feet. Most of them I have cut the line for, they can drift on their own for a while for I have bigger problems and an education. There is a girl, who introduced me to Objectivism who is to shy to seek other people of this philosophy. We met at a train station, my train was delayed and we both were off work due to bullshit strikes in my near socialist bullshit country. She is addicted to heroin, at the same time she works a good job. We both want to study Business at Swinbourne University and she is very intelligent and articulate, her story is that she was kicked out of home at a very young age and got involved with the wrong people to put it simply. Should I help this girl maintain herself in living, for I love her, in hope that she will improve? Or will giving her a hand handicap her? That is my dillema.