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    >   Cyberpop wrote --   
      
    > >>  The one's that are enforced are no discussion of current    
    > >> religion or politics.   
      
    > > What mreans "current religtion"?    
      
    >    Basically and esp. if one states this one faith is better than    
   others.   
    >    Ie, "It's my church only, all others are doomed" type messages.    
    >    "My political party is the only way, the other side is full of    
   fools",   
    > etc.   
      
   Fair enough; I don't believe any of those statements, so good luck getting    
   me into a polemic discussion. . .   
      
   In politics, I'm "there's some good stuff on that side, & some in the    
   other"; in religion, I'm "It's none of my business what God, in   
   his/her/they're infinite wisdom has in mind! So I stay out of the way of    
   those who believe they have that all-important direct line to the deity of   
   their choice.   
      
   It's pretty basic: a creator of all this apparently likes variety.   
      
   I'm not going to try to tell Him (correct English neuter pronoun for any    
   deity not engaged in intercourse or gestation)   
      
    > > Of course,  grew up n the 1970s, whebn life was casual.     
      
    >   I grew up in the '50s and pretty much the same.   
    >   In the summer you left the house and just had to be home by    
   dark/supper.   
      
   Yup; loved that, in retrospect; didn't appreciazte it nearly enough while   
   living it.  It was just normal life. . .   
      
   What I miss most, though, is how I used to walk 10-80 miles/day.  Not   
   necessariuly destination-motivated.  Only did the 80 once at age 12 or 13.   
   Got stopped at the border.  Was PO'ed coz the border cops wouldn't let me   
   smoke. My local cops always did, even wshen I was only 9!   
      
   I wasn't THAT involved in being in police stations, as this might be   
   sounding--mostly by happenstance & errors in judgement/companions.   
      
   Never anything serious.  The mosr serious was thrown out of cvourt by a    
   raging judge (quote, to the clerk: "Don't you EVER waste my time over a 50-   
   cvent can of coke again!")   
      
    >   From around 18 to my early 30s I hitch hiked a lot and never had a   
    > problem.  Of course being 6'1" and anywhere from 165-210 (my weight    
   varied a   
    > lot   
    > {pretty steady from 180-190 now}) may have been part of that.   
      
   Why wouldn't we choose free car rides over walking many miles, eh? Time   
   factored in, too. I had no beef walking thirty miles home, but it took a   
   looong time! Even at a pretty steady 6MPH.   
      
    >    And when I had a car I often picked up hitch hikers as well.     
   Provided   
    > they looked decent (not standing along the road in bloody clothes    
   holding an   
    > axe).  Never had a problem picking anyone up.   
      
   Common sense takes care of everything, for both the hitchers & the drivers,   
   eh?    
      
   I learmedf that when a slickly dressed/trimmed old guy in a Cadillac seemed   
   especially eager I hop in, I would make up some story(just going to meert    
   my dad at the police station; he's just getting off shift - I want to   
   siurprise him"(& I'd pick a town 50+ miles distant, to make it easy for him    
   to say, "not going that far, sorry" that would get him to say "never mind"    
   & drive away.   
      
    >    One time several years ago I was putt-putting along the sidewalk on   
    > campus in my golf cart and a young woman who worked in the office was   
    > returning from lunch.  I rode up and asked "Hey there cutie, want a    
   ride?  I   
    > have   
    > candy?"  She asked without a pause "   
    >    I often joke I was told by my family to never accept rides from   
    > strangers, UNLESS they offer you candy first.  :)   
      
   Yup, like the cartoon of the guy in a van with covered back windows,    
   hearing his intended victim, a little girl, saying, "I was told there'd be   
   candy!"   
      
   Laughing it off, saps the power out of a thing.   
      
   In the middle ages, everything was fear of the bogeyman(Old Nick,    
   Beezelbub, et al) until some genius cartoonified him as the little red   
   pitchfork-carrying imp we all know & love, with triangular tailtip waving   
   proudly behind him.   
      
   Not whast most would consider fearsome amny more. . .   
      
    > > even wshen tCanada's biggest serial killer was picking up teen boys    
      
    >   One event comes to mind was with "The Rainbow Family" who were old   
    > hippies and held a annual love-in and dope smoking convention in the    
   state.   
    > I got   
    > a ride from one of them and when the door opened for me smoke from all    
   the   
    > joints they had been smoking    
      
   Neato! Did you partake?   
      
   I was along as a teen participant on a trip to SoCal.  We picked up a   
   hitchhiker in LA going to Frisco.  He opened his gym bag to show us it was   
   FULL of buds (all 6 of us guys were drooling & coveting); he offered to    
   smoke one with us, but the gropu home parent said no. (resulting in a    
   chorus of awwws & whinyy begging)   
      
   I leasrmned, from him, the Hippie Motto: "Stick to organics & have sex 4-5   
   times a day."; He interpreted it, "The chemicals will kill you, & sex is    
   damn fine exercise!"   
      
   This was in the era when crack(freebased cocaine) was a new thing, & the    
   after school shows were all about the dangers of PCP (horse tranq)   
      
   I've seesn the movie "Reefer Madness" & had to laugh all through it (raised    
   on Cheech & Chong, & permanently fried through my teens on the best weed    
   that was in Canada at any given time); I'm more concerned with the harm   
   alcohol does to society & individuals, TBH.   
      
   I haven't partook in 30 years, even while working on the campaign to   
   decriminalise cannabis in BC (moot now that it's legal across the board(for   
   adults; same rules as for alcohol), by the feds), & not even now, when I    
   can get some without being in tight with the biggest gangsters in the    
   country! (HAMC's territory included everything west of the midline)   
      
   Just can't be arsed now. . . I'm happy having my fullest faculties about me   
   atr all times. . .   
      
   I cn zone out, veg out on some downloaded TV or movies, or spend time    
   online &/or reading & have all the mind altering pleasure I need!   
      
   Your friend,   
      
   <+]:{)}   
   Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM   
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