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Straight Edge What is the big fuckin' deal? Why is everyone constantly deducting "points" from Minor Threat just because they're Straight Edge? To all of you whores who listen to this band cough ILoveSidViscious cough fuckfacebitch666 cough, calm down they aren't telling you what to do.	GASPATCHO

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i think all of the songs are good, straight edge is good too. i just don't get idiots who don't like them cuz' of that song	xtheblademaster
that is a great song. I love Minor Threat all the better too, becasue I am straight Edge.	THE_DROOGIE
What are peoples reaction when you tell them you are straight edge?	GASPATCHO
Mostly disgusted looks and grunts then changing of the subject. somtimes I'll have people ask me how I do it, and others just accept it right away and move on. It varies from where I am though.	THE_DROOGIE
I get the same thing, except they always seem to end in fights.	GASPATCHO
people are assholes. Being Straight Edge really isn't that big of a deal, we're the same as everyone else, just poison free.	THE_DROOGIE
Yeah, and it;s always the same damn question "So what, you think you're better me?" and being the idiot sarcastic person that I am the response will always be " Yes, but that has nothing to do with the fact that I'm straight edge."	GASPATCHO
HAHA	THE_DROOGIE
Haha, nice. I have a friend thats a big druggie, and he accuctly likes minor threat. People are just ignorant.	Mr_Krift
Haha, nice. I have a friend thats a big druggie, and he accuctly likes minor threat. People are just ignorant.	Mr_Krift
I could see why you wanted to post that twice. I don't hate people who take drugs, nor do I inform them on how it is ruining their lives.	GASPATCHO
So question, where exactly does strait edge pretain to sex? I've met kids that call themselves "Strait Edge" that have very different ideas on it. (Hence one of my friends refuses even to masturbate, while others find monogomy is fine)	SyntheticxDreams
Originally, straight edge was mostly just health-conscious stuff, wasn't it? I don't think that the members of Minor Threat were even monogonous. It is, I would assume, just "promiscuous" sex that would be.. not "straight edge". The whole idea is silly, though. Having rigid morals and health standards is.. personal. Nothing to do with music, or a scene. I think that even Ian got sick of the stupid "straight edge" loonies, and crap. You should slap your friends, Synthetic. Twice, to be safe.	xzar
(Anyways, I am probably more xxSTRAIGHT-EDGExxx ((=P)) than all of them combined, honestly.)	xzar
Haha I'd like to slap a couple of them, namely the one that won't masturbate simply for the fact that hes "strait edge" but yeah I think a lot of people act strait edge on accident. (like nerdy mormons :-p) I mean even an immoral nutter like me could claim it if they wanted. If sex isn't a huge degree, I think VampireArmand is the only one around here that wouldn't make the cut currently...how xxxcoolxxx	SyntheticxDreams
I remeber the first time I said I would never drink, do drugs, or smoke. I was in 4th grade and they showed us a cartoon of beer cans and bottles repeatly beating and bludgeoning our cute little liver to death. The liver was heavily damaged, but they still felt the need to bring in the drug needles. I bought into all of the propoganda on account of my fear. The fact that there is a musical genre reflecting my beliefs (or the beliefs that were scalded into my brain) is a mere coincidence. The whole sex thing is another story for another day.	GASPATCHO
Nothing was ever bludgeoned into my brain. I honestly hate the thought that so many people (on a great scale) are swayed simply by the times. And I mean the big things, that change with the times.. not fashion and whatever. Like racism. It is nice that people are more tolerant today. But how could it be that sooo many people are tolerant, now, while soo many people were racist, before? I hate the idea that anything I do is a result of crap around me. I would like to think that I would be sensible enough to be largely who I am today.. were I born some other time. You know?	xzar
You obviously don't live in the Southside of Phoenix. It's not that people aren't racist anymore it's just that they're are "closet" racists, especially in states where the minority is the majority. I think since society frowns on racism people will just keep their beliefs to themseleves, which is worse than it was in the past. By the way what brings this discussion of racism?	GASPATCHO
That was just the first example to pop into my head for shift in popular belief. I just hate to think that any of the things about me that are in agreeance with the majority of the time are actually only that way because of the time, or because of the majority. Ucky thought, it is. In any case, health obligations aside, the general morality and common sense associated with that bit of straight edge behavior sort of relates to racism, doesn't it? If you are going to be smart about drugs and such, it may as well spill over into how you see everything else, as well.	xzar
That's a different/odd way of looking at things. How different do you think you would be if you were born in a different time?	GASPATCHO
Who knows? Of course your surroundings affect you, and how you grow up, because what you think relies on what you see. Without certain experiences, you can't.. think a certain way. Buuut... major popular opinion.. and other things... imagine how different people are in far-seperated cultures and/or time periods. Don't know what to think of it. Like. Do you think that you would have, eventually (maybe by just looking at other peoples lives..) come to the same conclusion on drugs as you have now, were it not for today's society? Not just that video.. but a whole slew of little similar things you were surely exposed to...	xzar
In my case I don't like drugs because I've had my share of them, and beyond that have seen what its done to friends. If I'd messed around with them in any other society I wouldn't like them either. Soo that would be via experince. Sadly my curosity takes over the sense or morality apparently connected with the strait edge ideas. I dunno I like to experience things. I think the readers and the observers would be more influenced than the doers.	SyntheticxDreams
agreed. dont rep on the sXe kids. theyre the ones making the better decisions anyway. so ya.	aboislove