addiction being time-disorders because people don't know how to pass time – Corey Anton

An addiction is any behavior, substance related or not, that an individual pursues because they find pleasure, relief, or they crave it temporarily, so they pursue the pleasure and relief despite negative consequences. And they don’t give it up, in the face of negative consequences. I said any behavior. So that could be sex, gambling, eating, shopping, work, relationships, or substances.

– Gabor Mate

• Suggestion in your environment appeal to your addictions and also creates them: https://listed.standardnotes.org/@mo/1105/not-open-to-suggestion
• "Unnatural chronic behavior that desensitizes us to the sharp edge of life."
• "Compromising dignity and boundaries and adapting and to be want other want me to be and addictions for not feeling the pain of lossing dignity and integrety from this"
• one purpose of the term addiction is to highlight unhealthy adaptations. it points to survival-strategy that help us cope but at the same time make us suffer. insofar addictions are solutions to an underlyning pain

On smoking

It’s a freedom that can be easily bought. Knowing that it’s bad for you makes this more true, not less.

In the incredible show The Leftovers, there’s this cult, the Guilty Remnant, who smoke constantly and never speak. Basically they do this because they want to be undead; the show centers around the mysterious disappearance of a small percentage of the world’s population, and they feel that this marked the end of life as it was previously known. They can’t live life anymore, they can only do something related. This totally makes sense to me, aesthetically. Cigarettes are a way of lustily grabbing half-life.

• The power of ritual ?

• Simplifying life

• Living it its own cult.

• Overwhelm from complexity of life

• Living Through Cigarettes

Links

• Addiction and the self
• https://www.edgeofbeing.org/addiction/
• https://highexistence.com/self-healing-vs-self-enhancement/
• john-vervaeke on addiction