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timstich
Jul 18, 2003, 9:02 PM
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In reply to: timstitch wrote: "If it caused you to lose your job, your house, and your family, then it would really be interfering." To paraphrase Todd Skinner, "If you really want to be a climber, quit your job, sell your house, ditch your girlfriend, and climb." Maybe it is an addiction, maybe it isn't, but i'd rather climb than get a blowjob. oh yeah, there's a "Teenage Wasteland at Mt. Magazine also.
Yeah.
...if it made you broke, without a place to live, and totally alone. At that level I would agree, you are addicted to (X) where X = something you really want and enjoy. If you attain this level you are a junky, rather than a frequent user.
If you kick the habit, then you are a very stubborn junky.
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crimsontime
Jul 18, 2003, 9:07 PM
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I adopted "extreme" type activities (torches, snow/skate/surf board, pole vaulting) because I wanted to be able to fully commit my energy. Nothing is better than letting all your energy flow out in some sort of art or sport that you have perfected thru discipline until it becomes spontaneous and ecstatic. When I started climbing I didn't have a girlfriend but now I do. It's hard having a girlfriend when you are accustomed to living on that kind of "adrenaline". If my girlfriend wasn't also a climber and a boarder, I don't think it would work... And I would prefer to be single rather than change.
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sharpender
Jul 18, 2003, 11:07 PM
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VT poser said: In reply to: Maybe it is an addiction, maybe it isn't, but i'd rather climb than get a blowjob.
We've got just the climb for you over here in Southern Cal at Suicide rock. It's called Felatio.
Enjoy :P
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soma
Jul 18, 2003, 11:40 PM
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In reply to: My girlfriend says Im addicted to four things: beer, weed, climbing, and blowjobs.
I showed your post to my girlfriend and she laughed and said "Exactly like you but you would rather f*ck."
Great post...
Dave
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maculated
Jul 19, 2003, 12:01 AM
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I've been thinking about this thread pretty much all day, and now that I'm about to leave for a blissful non-sitting-in-front-of-computer weekend (alas, no climbing again, I don't think) . . . I'm ready.
I think certain personalities are 'addicted' to things. I don't know if it has to do with teenagers or not.
I know my personality lends me toward obsession. When I was 12 I got a dog and I literally lived the dog world. You saw Best in Show? That was me. I think I was the well-adjusted (cough) terrier couple.
I'm still kind of into it, but then I got to college and the dog thing faded out. I felt empty.
I joined the lacrosse team. I was obsessed with that for a year and a half until I discovered climbing.
I'm obsessed with that now.
I think that this is kind of healthy. I could fixate on other things, but dogs saved my childhood from drugs (I hung out witha tough crowd) and climbing saved me from binge drinking (and my partner, when I dragged his butt out of parties to climb the next day).
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jt512
Jul 19, 2003, 12:05 AM
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In reply to: ...climbing saved me from binge drinking.
And you call yourself a SERIOUS climber.
-Jay
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enigma
Jul 19, 2003, 4:54 AM
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In reply to: In reply to: ...climbing saved me from binge drinking. And you call yourself a SERIOUS climber. -Jay
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noshoesnoshirt
Jul 19, 2003, 7:15 AM
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In reply to: In reply to: timstitch wrote: "If it caused you to lose your job, your house, and your family, then it would really be interfering." To paraphrase Todd Skinner, "If you really want to be a climber, quit your job, sell your house, ditch your girlfriend, and climb." Maybe it is an addiction, maybe it isn't, but i'd rather climb than get a blowjob. oh yeah, there's a "Teenage Wasteland at Mt. Magazine also. Yeah. ...if it made you broke, without a place to live, and totally alone. At that level I would agree, you are addicted to (X) where X = something you really want and enjoy. If you attain this level you are a junky, rather than a frequent user. If you kick the habit, then you are a very stubborn junky.
Yeah, well, you got a point there. Wear a hat and no one will notice.
Seriously though, i've always had my car to live in, and the company of other (dirtbag) climbers. I've suffered through a lot of crappy times (povery ridden, stinky, and unlaid) wondering if i shouldn't go ahead and settle down, but i've had the pleasure of sending some very cool lines.
When it all comes down to it you have only one thing: time, and only you can decide what you want to trade your time for
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noshoesnoshirt
Jul 19, 2003, 7:25 AM
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a quick quote from "Gravity's Rainbow", sort of summarizes some of my thoughts:
"...taking and not giving back, demanding that "productivity" and "earnings"
keep on increasing with time, the System removing from the rest of the World
these vast quantities of energy to keep its own tiny desperate fraction
showing a profit: and not only most of humanity - most of the World,
animal, vegetable, and mineral is laid to waste in the process. The System
may or may not understand that it's only buying time. And that time is an
artificial resource to begin with, of no value to anyone or anything but the
System, which sooner or later must crash to its death, when its addiction to
energy has become more than the rest of the world can supply, dragging with
it innocent souls all along the chain of life. Living in the Sytem is like
riding across the country in a bus driven by a maniac bent on suicide..."
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