The Narrow Path

Binge drinking teenagers are still at risk of absent-mindedness and forgetfulness days later, a study says.

I want to say right off the bat that I do not find anything inherently wrong with drinking. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that drinking is against God. The Bible does mention drunkenness as something to be avoided and gives plenty of reasons why… and I’m sure most of us know those reasons, so I won’t go into them. I myself do not drink now, due to a decision my wife and I made while we were still dating. We made poor decisions while drinking, and said things that we regretted later, or wish we had said while sober, so that it had more impact etc. We decided it was much better to stop drinking, so that we could trust each other and ourselves much more fully.

Now if you, the reader did used to drink, then do you remember the dumbs? or the stupids? The day after, my mind just did not work correctly, even if I only had a little to drink. Being a programmer, I think I noticed it a lot more than most other people, due to the nature of my work. It always seemed like the drinking made a difference on my logic. I just couldn’t make certain connections that I would normally be able to think through, several steps ahead of the game. I always felt this wall in my brain that I just could not bust through.. a limit to my logic, to my thinking. Some people felt it, others did not.. and it always seemed to be in the logic area of thinking.

This report was just released and I thought I would share it with my readers. I knew it wasn’t in my imagination, but it was really hard to explain to people, especially those that did not have a job that forced them to use a lot of logic…in most everyday activities I did not feel it too much. I could feel a cloud, but that was about it. It would go away a day later, but man it was annoying while it was there. This article shows that binge drinking.. or drinking A LOT, to the point of drunkenness and even worse to the blackout point, it’s not temporary, it’s actually permanent in developing brains, and I wonder also how permanent it might be in adult brains.

The spirit is a hardy thing, yet can be fragile also. The more we damage our brains the more likely we can be influenced in the negative (the reason I only include negative here, is because it’s so easy for us to do negative, yet so difficult to do good, so it’s easier for us to follow the negative influences). The devil can more easily influence us if our mind is not all there…one of the reasons why it’s so easy to do stupid things while drunk. If he can permanently damage our logical side… it would be that much more difficult to make good decisions in our lives, we would be run by emotions, instead of a nice balance of emotions and logic.