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Stoked said:
I see where PKM is coming from. LDS (particularly those born and raised in Utah) are sheltered to an extent from the world the rest of us see.
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I would agree with you, to a certain extent. But you make it sound like LDS folk are pretty much Amish. That just isn't the case. We live and work in the real world just like everybody else. There is a difference in that LDS people are less likely to experience some of the things that others do, but it isn't because they just flat out aren't aware. They make choices.

Regardless, I don't think that one's perspective, no matter how sheltered it may be, should be excluded in a discussion in an open forum. If you feel like that perspective is based in misinformation or misunderstanding, disagree and move on.
 
Bronco70 said:
I would agree with you, to a certain extent. But you make it sound like LDS folk are pretty much Amish. That just isn't the case. We live and work in the real world just like everybody else. There is a difference in that LDS people are less likely to experience some of the things that others do, but it isn't because they just flat out aren't aware. They make choices.

Regardless, I don't think that one's perspective, no matter how sheltered it may be, should be excluded in a discussion in an open forum. If you feel like that perspective is based in misinformation or misunderstanding, disagree and move on.
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Growing up in SLC and then living a few other places and visiting several more while I was in the Navy then returning to SLC...I don't think Utahans are any more sheltered than anybody else, not even the LDS ones.
 
Bronco70 said:
I would agree with you, to a certain extent. But you make it sound like LDS folk are pretty much Amish. That just isn't the case. We live and work in the real world just like everybody else. There is a difference in that LDS people are less likely to experience some of the things that others do, but it isn't because they just flat out aren't aware. They make choices.

Regardless, I don't think that one's perspective, no matter how sheltered it may be, should be excluded in a discussion in an open forum. If you feel like that perspective is based in misinformation or misunderstanding, disagree and move on.
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I think it is a big stretch to say "sheltered to an extent" = amish. There are certain issues about which they are sheltered. How they are sheltered is irrelevant.

I was the first to point out that there opinion was no less valid then others.
 
Maybe I'm wrong, completely. But I never said they're sheltered, I said they not, generally speaking gotten themselves into the same amount of 'activities' as the rest of the country's population. Like I said, maybe I'm wrong, but I highly doubt that.
 
Gameface said:
Growing up in SLC and then living a few other places and visiting several more while I was in the Navy then returning to SLC...I don't think Utahans are any more sheltered than anybody else, not even the LDS ones.
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Isn't it interesting the different experiences/perspectives people get by living life.

I have lived in northern and southern Utah, Denver, Seattle, Memphis...and my experience has been the opposite.

Nothing wrong with LDS (Utah LDS) perspective. It is just different.
 
SaltyDawg said:
Why would that change anything? Marijuana is not physically addictive, btw.
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Not physically addictive in the sense that you go through with physiological withdrawal symptoms perhaps, but it's still addictive. As a testament to that, I point out the tens or hundreds of thousands of jailed individuals that have been referenced in the thread, who used marijuana despite knowing that there was a substantial risk that it could cause them to be imprisoned if caught. If that's not addiction, I don't know what is.
 
SaltyDawg said:
It's not physically addictive, and that isn't even debatable, it's a fact.
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Wikipedia disagrees with you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_dependence
"Evidence suggests that cannabis users can develop tolerance to the effects of THC and experience withdrawal symptoms."

It's not as physically addictive as some drugs, perhaps, but your "isn't even debatable, it's a fact" claim seems to be just plain wrong.
 
colton said:
Wikipedia disagrees with you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_dependence
"Evidence suggests that cannabis users can develop tolerance to the effects of THC and experience withdrawal symptoms."

It's not as physically addictive as some drugs, perhaps, but your "isn't even debatable, it's a fact" claim seems to be just plain wrong.
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Salty? No, never, impossible. It isn't even debatable, it's a fact.
 
colton said:
Wikipedia disagrees with you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_dependence
"Evidence suggests that cannabis users can develop tolerance to the effects of THC and experience withdrawal symptoms."

It's not as physically addictive as some drugs, perhaps, but your "isn't even debatable, it's a fact" claim seems to be just plain wrong.
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Wikapedia. The end all source of information, too bad college professors don't agree with that.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
Wikapedia. The end all source of information, too bad college professors don't agree with that.
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I'm a college professor, and I use Wikipedia for information all the time. You have to take it with a grain of salt, but that doesn't make it useless.
 
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