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Re: Alcohol
DIR By: rp
Date: March 16, 2024, 7:58 am
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_alcoholic_drinks#Ancient_period"
Ok. Then why is it that in the Dietary Decolonization thread you
said that we are not pro alcohol?
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Re: Alcohol
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 16, 2024, 4:40 pm
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HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/dietary-decolonization/msg11085/?topicseen#msg11085
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> Since the colonial era, pre-colonial local alcoholic beverages
in colonized countries have been to varying degrees supplanted
by Western wine. This is also something we should be trying to
reverse. While we are not especially pro-alcohol in general, if
people must drink, from a purely anti-colonialist perspective we
should encourage them to drink the pre-colonial stuff.
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"Not especially pro-alcohol" implies merely that we do not try
to persuade non-drinkers to start drinking, nor ostracize them
for refusing to drink during social occasions.
We are also against:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_drinking_age
yet another uniquely Western law which never existed in ancient
times but was spread around the world during the colonial era by
the Western colonial powers, and therefore which we should be
trying to get rid of as part of:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/legal-decolonization/
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Re: Alcohol
DIR By: rp
Date: March 16, 2024, 6:21 pm
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Ok. Then would you still consider the teetotaler Aryan superior
to the drinking Aryan? If so, why?
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Re: Alcohol
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 16, 2024, 7:37 pm
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Of course I am against drinking while on duty. Proceeding from
this, a teetotaler is someone who is ready to be called up for
duty at any time, thus in this sense superior for practical
purposes to someone who is not. If I were hiring for a job that
potentially requires unscheduled duty, I would hire a
teetotaler.
With this said, I do not exclude the possibility that a drinker
could be superior in other aspects.
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Re: Alcohol
DIR By: rp
Date: May 22, 2024, 11:37 pm
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"With this said, I do not exclude the possibility that a drinker
could be superior in other aspects."
Yes. I would consider the vegan drinker superior to the
vegetarian teetotaler (most Orthodox/upper caste Hindus), for
example.
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Re: Alcohol
DIR By: alcohol
Date: July 5, 2024, 10:52 pm
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Certainly there can be no sin when one uses a substance as a
medication. In these unnaturally tense and suppressive times
that we live in alcohol can be a good remedy to bring one to a
more naturally open and relaxed state.
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Re: Alcohol
DIR By: rp
Date: April 14, 2025, 10:00 pm
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I feel guilty about sipping alcohol, because my religion forbids
it. I have been trying to cope with this fact for a year now,
and it is taking a toll on my mental health. Any advice?
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Re: Alcohol
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 14, 2025, 10:08 pm
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Please post a precise wording of what is supposedly forbidden,
and the textual source. Please state if you took an explicit vow
to follow this.
Also, assuming you knew the above prior to drinking alcohol, why
did you do it at all?
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