It seems like everyone I meet has at least one vice. Whether it be drinking caffeine, eating like shit, smoking weed, drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes or abusing nicotine products (this happens to be mine)
Even Donald Trump eats like shit and consumes a shit load of Diet Coke. Former drug addict Russel Brand claims to be “clean” yet according to all reports drinks a shit load of espresso
I feel like most people who claim to be straight edge end up burning out at some point.
Most people aren’t clean
Matthew Clark
there's entire religions devoted to being straight edge of course they exist but they're all homos
Grayson Flores
I've gone 76 days without any drugs. No caffeine, no alcohol, no nothing. Food and water. I feel good, but sometimes I'm like "I want a beer" and I can't have one and it makes me a little sad. I will have fun on St. Patrick's Day.
Isaiah Price
I was straight until a lecherous whore tempted me with her smile and alcohol.
Angel Ortiz
I drink coffee, black, and smoke hookah ocassionaly. But other than that I have been sober for 8 months on the 26th. No drugs, alcohol, or masturbation (since December 31st). Don’t honestly need it more than brain gainz. But I am up for 18 hours a day everyday 5:30-11:30 everyday so I abuse caffeine.
Jose Clark
I didn't drink coffee, alcohol, smoke, or do any drugs until I had champagne at my wedding (age 23). During that time I definitely didn't eat perfect but I ate okay. The idea of vice as something that everyone has one is a trick that was played in you. None of us are perfect but you can never be free so long as you "give yourself just one."
Caleb Reyes
Life sucks. Everyone needs coping mechanism.
As long as it doesnt negatively impact you then who gives a shit? Most people think im a normal upstanding citizen. Fact I jerk it more often than I breath every day doesn't make me a liability.
Colton Stewart
Same. I was 26 and had never even considered alcohol / drugs / cigarettes / didnt even drink coffee
Luis Cook
I haven't drank since Feb 3rd but have replaced that vice with gambling. I lost almost $1000 this month on slot machines and it's just about the worst feeling in the world. I feel fucking stupid.
Justin Bennett
Can you even define "truly straight edge"? If someone eats carbs, is that person worthy of the truly straight edge title? Where is the line drawn?
Jack Bennett
Ive been heavily addicted to alcohol, weed, cigarettes and coffee. It’s still a way to go, but this is my 5 year progress:
Drinking: from more than 12 glasses daily to less then 1 Weed: from smoking 2 joints daily to totally clean for 4 Years now Cigarettes: from smoking 1,5 packs a day to 4-5 cigarettes now Coffee: nothing changed, still drink 6 cups a day at least.
My goal is to become totally clean from all these vices within the next five years.
Brandon Murphy
I met a straight edge hyper religious guy at my last job. he was insufferable to be around and a total creep. he needed a beer and to jerk off and he would have been fine, he was way too passive aggressive and filled up on weird machiavellian/real social dynamic garbage to be around.
Julian Lewis
>tfw I'm a caffeine fiend because of my narcolepsy.
Joseph Sanchez
Conservative Christian reporting in. My only drug use has been a cup of coffee a day, and painkillers for a week after getting a wisdom tooth removed. I'm not autistic about controlled substances. Only alcohol is a sip of wine at communion at church. I honestly don't think I'm missing out on anything. I've worked with a lot of alcoholics (blue collar job) and they seemed pretty miserable
Daniel Jones
the limiting factors for "straight edge" are caffeine and alcohol. If you're weird enough to have reasons to not consume either of those, then you probably don't do anything else if you are reasonably intelligent and were raised in the good part of town.
also, since no one asked, here's my life story
6' 148 lbs -vehemently opposed to alcohol and never have, nor ever will, consume a drop in my life, even at the cost of my social life. i'd smoke 200 lbs of weed before i drank 1 tsp beer and weed is for fags -cant taste the difference between diet soda and regular, so i get diet on the rare occasions i have a craving for soda (approximately 2 times per year) -not addicted to caffeine of any sort, i only ever drink water or milk -no nicotine because i learned cigarettes cause cancer in 3rd grade and i'm not a retard who would dabble in any other nicotine products -no weed or other drugs because no interest, although if i were to do a drug, i'd smoke weed -eat whatever so i guess i fail on this part >basically a loser
Ayden Evans
Every student at my seminary must vow against all tobacco, alcohol, and drug use
I drink black coffee but go days without it
Donald Trump is a lifelong teetotaler
Moral of the story: your willpower isn't indicative of everyone else
Kayden Murphy
Humans are addictive by nature due to their dopamine reward system.
The choice is do you allow yourself to get addicted to negative activities like drugs and alcohol etc, or do you get addicted to things like exercise.
On a side note I chew so much fucking gum it's unreal everytime I open my bin I'm blasted with a spearment scented hurricane.
Ian Martin
Lol at you saying "even Trump", as if that fat Jew is some kind of a role model.
I don't have any of those vices, but then again I don't label myself as straight edge because that sounds retarded
Jeremiah Ramirez
im vidya-addict how stop? i already got myself banned 1 year from the game i play the most. Is this going to be enough.
Liam Watson
I am there.
James Richardson
I think part of the reason alcoholics seem miserable is a bit of a chicken and egg thing. They often lean towards excessive drink because of life troubles which may then be exacerbated alcohol. Rinse and repeat until sclerosis sets in.
Ryder Collins
I think its about switching harmful vices for less harmful vices. I use to smoke tons of weed, take xanax, and do other bad shit. Now I smoke e-cigs, try to eat better, and workout more. Its a progression I guess. Always remember that no one has totally Iron will. We need a release valve or we will explode. Make healthier choices and you'll realize that after you kick the habit you don't really need it as bad as you thought.
Ian Rivera
I mean how much does it effect you? You need some vices and honestly while not productive, video games aren't the worst vice you could have.
Lucas Reyes
Take heed folks. A wise man speaks
Lincoln Wright
You system of tyranny does not work effectively. Shaming adds to the pain. Only through understanding you will achieve freedom from vice.
Jayden Gomez
Find something of meaning in your life. If you drag yourself out of bed every morning you will drown out the pain with vice. You need purpose
Jacob Reed
that ass is criminal
I will get out of my chair right now and be productive for the sole purpose of bettering my chances to one day have this in my life
Carson White
True straight edge reporting in. I don't know what is wrong with me. Always had a strong dislike of drugs, alcohol, and all nicotine products. Straight A's throughout high school and also an Eagle Scout, so there is clearly something different, if not just outright wrong with me.
I also eat healthy and don't consume any caffeine (abstaining since age 13 has caused my stomach to be very intolerant of any form of caffiene to the point where I get a terrible pain in my stomach and intestinal region).
I'm not religious in any way and I also don't follow any sort of code. I've just always felt a strong aversion to doing anything that negatively impact me just for "muh feels".
Granted, the one area where I might be considered not a straight arrow would be cars. The feeling of speed and lateral G's is to die for.
I have had suspicions that I might be a high functioning autist with minimal symptoms, but I have never confirmed this.
Cooper Price
*Impacts
My bad, phone posting right now
Ryan Long
I don't drink, smoke or consume recreational drugs. I also abstain from casual sex. People have varying degrees of seriousness etc, and it's personal/subjective, however the basic rules are no alcohol, no drugs and no cigarettes. To declare someone as "Not straight edge" because they eat a big mac occasionally is bollocks.
John Reyes
Kys you braindead fuck. You're already dead, that existence isn't a life. Fundie christians are worse than Muslims and sjws, at least those two groups know what they want and are honest about it.
Logan Martinez
If you aren't Catholic or Orthodox you're not even a Christian IMO. Protestantism is heresy.
Nathaniel Jackson
have a friend that's never drank ,smoked, did anything "immoral" or even sworn in his life. never did anything sexual (that he's told me about) either. one day he will break and i will be sad because his "vice" is his obsession with being straightedge and also he has serious pride and anger issues.
Jordan Hill
>whomst've are the amish >whomst've are most monastic orders >whomst've are any primitive peoples
Cooper Jackson
No, everybody has a vice. EVERYBODY. Some just hide theirs better than others.
Adam Reed
I drink alcohol regularly, and drink several cups of espresso coffee each day, and sometimes just for fun I'll crush up some of my codien stash into a drink just to mellow out.
I also fuck high class hookers from time to time just for the thrill of it.
Yet, I consider myself more of a straight edge than anyone else in this thread. Why? Because I don't do anything without a complete understanding of the consequences beforehand and I'm always totally prepared for every contingency. Nothing throws me off my game, moderation is key. That's being straight edge, shielding yourself from all sorts of temptations and "vices" isn't being a straight edge, it's being weak.
Takes more of an edge to brave a storm and come out the other side unharmed than to run away from it because you're unprepared. How can you call yourself straight edge if you're not testing yourself?
Charles Williams
Truer words are seldom spoken my friend. You must know your shit, it's always the Protestant scum who obsess about being "clean" physically instead of spiritually. I've always found Catholics and Orthodox people to be willing to chill out and have a good time as long as it's not a religious time, whole Protestants are always being weird and repressed all the time.
Ethan Carter
>christian posts about having a fairly nice life, free from temptation >Kys you braindead fuck. You're already dead, that existence isn't a life. yeah, i'm really gonna strive to be like the second guy instead of the first. seems like he's got it all figured out
Juan Jenkins
I'm straight edge when it comes to substances. I do have a fapping problem though
Mason Cruz
>never did anything sexual
This is the one thing I'll never believe. Humans are sexual as fuck, the ones that deny it even more so. That doesn't mean he's out here banging girls behind your back, but it does mean he shoves cucumbers up is ass or something in the privacy of his own home. You cannot repress your sexuality, particularly men.
Adam Rogers
Christ himself allowed Lucifer to take him around Judea and tempt him just to prove he was above temptation. Living a life free from temptation isn't a life, it's cowardice. The same as the steward who buried the money in the ground instead of investing.
Jesus was actually a fucking bad-ass with a big ego who whipped some Jews and smashed up their tables for lending money in the temple, saved a hooker from being stoned by an angry mob and all sorts of other adventures. Like walking on water just to prove a point.
Modern day conservatives are brain dead people shielding themselves from life, Jesus himself would call them boring fucks
Jordan Bennett
I'm straight edge but I have been playing hentai games non-stop lately
Connor Phillips
i dont drink, take drugs or any of that. i enjoy sweet foods but i dont eat them constantly. i masturbate but not every day. i have never wanted to drink or do drugs im just not interested. most people my age do that all the time and say im missing out but i dont see the appeal and never have
Matthew Rogers
I'm straight edge if you don't count rape porn
Juan Barnes
How ofter are you doing it a day? I do it once a day and feel like trash...
Aiden Jones
Just cut your losses breh. Just think it’s the same result as if you bought an iPhone X and then dropped it a day after and broke it
Carter Flores
mormons
Landon Moore
Religion is their vice?
Thomas Wright
What was the vice of tribal people before we had drugs and porn?
Nolan Hall
Every single remote tribe ever discovered has had a way of getting high
Evan Stewart
I am. >Don't do drugs or smoke. >Drink caffeine and alcohol only when offered or during social time, so doesn't count as an addiction. >Too autistic and insecure for casual hooking
Eli Watson
>slot machines
This loser puts his money into a machine that is programmed to make you lose.
Jordan Ramirez
>Drink caffeine and alcohol only when offered or during social time, so doesn't count as an addiction. So you aren't actually straight edge, just normal.
Eli Thompson
Why would you want to be truly straight edge? There is absolutely no reason not to occasionaly do caffeine, alcohol, or other drugs. I have never met anyone that isn't straight edge because of a problem, like proneness to addiction.
Carson Thompson
Same. Eagle scout, good grades, good person, not attracted to any vices except Veeky Forums. I feel completely different than everyone else. I follow authority, do what is expected and have a good work ethic.
I see others who try to do things the "easy" way and they always fail. While I do things the correct way every time and have success.
Owen Butler
I try to have clean periods of time every few months but I couldn't do it for the rest of my life. I smoke occasionally, drink when going out (and completely wreck myself a few times/year) and absolutely need coffee & sips.
Jordan Phillips
so what's your solution? indulging in these substances just because the alternative is "boring"? no one is ever truly "free" from temptation, it'll always be tempting, but you have to fight against that temptation and learn to control yourself. otherwise you're a mental infant and should just rot