Say what you like but I disagree.

Without all that junk in our life we would be closer to the Lord. Whe would not go to a bottle or drugs to feel better, we would be reading the Bible or praying, we would go to him.

Smoking... DRugs... Alcohol... hmmm lets think....

All bad for you!

Sorry to put you down, but as you are a teenager, you are a lottle lacking in wisdom, and that is why our elders will try to show a little wisdom, and try to prevent you from ruining your life by smoking drinking and so on.

As for the artistic part, I still find your opinon based on your lack of good judgement. Okay, um.. how to put this nicely?

Well for a start, music would be reflecting the peace you find in the Lord, the  love you feel in his prescense, you would hear pure clean music. That does not mean that I am only into praise music, far from the truth...

TheProphet was saying how artists would look incomplete without some sort of addiction.. well as for that soooooooooooo untrue!

Maybe just to you, but.. who knows maybe your a little on the weird side...

Artists would have a clean look to them. Insteda of being some drunks writing music while their loony, they could write a good song in their right mind.

Oh well, if you don't understyand this, i pity u.

Poorly written article. But practice makes perfect! Keep trying......HOPEFULLY one day you'll get there. The article needs to have  a little more thought in it.

Sorry..... but that is just me...blunt.. to the point..... truthful.

amen i completely agree. people make too big of a deal about it. like we all know its bad for you...give it a damn rest right?

in my mind it should be a choice to do it or not. if you want to do it...then do it

I am not going to give any more reasons, but I was not chewing this writer out. I was merely stating my opinion. Also I see what you mean about the smoking thing, I was saying things mostly about alchoholism.

I will leave it at this, and you should too, I must admit that I sometimes agree with the writer when he said this: "So why waste it preaching to the unconvertable..."

the only reason why it would kill brain cells is because you hold your breath when you smoke... that would do justas much damage as if someone holds their breath in when they have hiccups.... or even swimming under water for a long time. so, that's not a fair argument.

and leave this poor person alone this section is "opions" so allow the consistutional right of freedom of speech. don't chew them out for stating an opion. if you disagree state why but see that you don't always have to agree on everything. theres always two sides to an argument and you can both be right.

their not saying "teens the only way to have fun is these things" the writer is more so saying if your going to try them try them but don't allow them to run your lives be smart about it. we can't tell you what to do so now the risks that'll you'll be facing and if your still going to try them don't do them for bad reasons.

the rebel card is a fair card to play because they may think that's what they're doing you don't know their reasons for doing it... in stead of yellling at the writer focus on the people who do it with in your town and do something about it if it's truelly what you feel...

we all have our reasons and opions allow people to voice them and at least try to see a different veiw point even if you dont agree with it.

I sorta agree with you.

Although I'm determined to stay clear of alcohol, at least if I plan to settle down if I have kids, because alchohol runs in my family. I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I abuse my wife. I don''t think that we should judge other's opinions. It's up to you if you want to drink or smoke/inhale/inject/ingest, it's not my decision to make for anyone else

      Just because Galileo didn’t do drugs, doesn’t mean that other great artists haven’t.

      Suggesting that only rockers and metal-heads are influenced by drugs is just plain wrong: Reggae, Ska, Punk (though not straight-edge), Experimental rock (which, along with metal-core is lame), jazz, hip-hop etc. etc. etc. Once again I’m forced to explain that I’m not necessarily promoting the use of drugs, just pointing out that they are an intrinsic part of the creative process. If the bands you like don’t use drugs, I don’t care.

      “The only great writer to use drugs was Edgar Allen Poe.” Kerouac is a favourite of mine, and he used drugs. As did thousands of others.

      “Most kids do drugs and drink nowadays so doing them isn't rebellious at all” You seem to see rebellion as worthless is everyone does it, so where are you putting the value: in having fun with your mates or just trying to be different?

      The main point of this article was to voice my annoyance at people like you who are so self-righteous that they believe that just because they don’t see anything in drinking or taking drugs means that everyone who does is wrong to do so.

I think that it's discouraged for a little more than the destruction of brain cells!

Why choose between one or the other, we need both. Moreover, alcoholism is a very common side-effect of politics!

The reason that people discourage the use of drugs, especially in teenagers, is that they destroy brain cells.

I so see your point, but why chose a future famous artist when we could chose a great leader of a country?

You say "..and believe ourselves invincible. So why waste it preaching to the unconvertible, when there's plenty of sensible heads on aging shoulders to do that for us?"

Well, we can't just go around doing whatever we wanted. Imagine what would hapopen if we did. Half the population would die because of drunk drivers. Most teens would use ridiculous amounts of drugs and alcohol, and hurt their brains and bodies.Children would have teenagers as their role models and ruin their lives as well. As you can see, the world would be a huge mess if teenagers could just use drugs and alcohol whenever and however they wanted to.