"I have to drink or else I'd have no friends or sex."

Sorry. That's the way I speak my inner ex-alcoholic.

I don't understand your use of the word heuristic here.

Yes, there is admittedly an emotional component to my attack on alcohol dependency. Just as there is an obvious emotional component to your need to defend it.

To be clear I am not opposed to responsible drug use. Not at all lol.

When we rely on external sources for peace, in any context, it is falling short of our greatest potential actualization as conscious beings. At certain extremes we become miserably inadequate. At which point certain descriptors may be accurately employed.

I wish for you, and all suffering beings, harmony and liberation 🙏

I suppose this is what I should have said 😂

I reject your reductionist nihilism. I am sorry your experience has led you to this.

Eventually, we tire of the chase. Then we choose to rise to nobility, or sink to apathy.

Peace can be found within, hear me!

See it, always there.

Blessings on your way.

"using alcohol as intended" "if I don't drink I won't get laid. I wouldn't have any friends"

Meh. I have sex and friends and a social life and I don't drink. Somebody else replied to this person stating my opinions in a more compassionate way, check out their explanation regarding the self deception around substance abuse.

Sorry, it is my honest opinion that its pitiful to require alcohol to be social. Maybe someone needs to hear that, as a wakeup call. Who are you, reddit-hive mind, to police me. I'm not being abusive. I used one adjective.

Idgaf if you wouldn't hang out with me. I wouldn't want to hang out with you. In a bar, I'm sure.

You appeal to authority, citing Newtonian physics.

Your arrogance makes no impression on me.

We are at the end of a thread in an already forgotten corner of the internet.

It's just you and I, now.

We are alive, though you conceive of yourself as a math equation.

This was an opportunity for you, and it's just about wrapping up.

What began as your defense of alcohol dependency, ended up as your defense of nihilism. No surprise there.

If it is all truly meaningless, how do you justify your moral defense of the one I 'unjustly' labeled pathetic? What is justice in a universe devoid of personal responsibility? What logic is there in condemning an entities actions who lacks free will? How do you rationalize your emotional motivations?

If you are so enlightened in your calculations, why do you not cease this empty playing out of determined variables?

Contradictions and tells throughout. You are clearly very young, whether physically or mentally. Your concept of reality is under developed. Simple, predictable.

Pathetic