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Re: CHATter: reason &/or faith (wasRe: another new language to check out)

From:Tristan Mc Leay <kesuari@...>
Date:Sunday, July 4, 2004, 12:48
And Rosta wrote:

> Some of my addictions makes sense & logic to me. Addiction to X works > by making the addict feel bad when they don't have X. Having X makes > the bad feeling go away. The feeling of a bad feeling going away > feels like pleasure. If X is easily available, it is possible to > have pleasure regularly throughout the day. There aren't many > things that can provide such regular and reliable pleasure.
Actually, it's my understanding that addiction to X works by making the addict feel really good when they have X. Typically, addictive drugs like alcohol, heroin or nicotine work my activating the pleasure centres in a similar way that sex or food (which it's possible to be addicted to too) do. But really this thread should come to an end... -- Tristan. | To be nobody-but-yourself in a world kesuari at yahoo!.com.au | which is doing its best to, night and day, | to make you everybody else--- | means to fight the hardest battle | which any human being can fight; | and never stop fighting. | --- E. E. Cummings, "A Miscellany"