Anyone Else Lost The Edge?

[XbeasleyX]

Anyone else used to be straight edge that is not anymore? Lost my edge recently and wondered if I'm alone on AO in this respect. (keeping the X's in name for sheer convenience)

















btw (still no drugs or smoking)

[Warewolf50]

What the poo u talking bout

[dyeguy65]

What the poo u talking bout

[XbeasleyX]

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Not to sound like an <B?*POOF*</B> but if you dont know what straight edge is, than it doesn't apply to you.

<B>*Warning: No Cussing*</B> -Miscue

[who_311]

My friend is but he recently just broke down and got high. Now I, never being edge, but still respecting other people's values, I helped him through it. He was very depressed about it. He's has gotten better lately though. He says he's going back and going to keep being edge. I dont know though, can someone really fall off and then get back on? That doesnt really make sense, but neither does the whole militant edge thing, not doing stuff is fine, but dont shove it in people's face.

alex

[desslock]

when I was younger I was considered straight edge even though I never thought I was, never sported black Xs on my hands I just thought, drinking and puking and smoking pot and acting faded was a waste of time. That was the past and all my former "friends" that were straight edge ended up becoming hypocrites. I dabbled with the drinking and drugs..looking back I was right, it is a waste of time. I will still drink a beer or two but never to the point of being drunk and stupid. Its all about your life and your choices. Dont let your friends tell you what you should and shouldnt do cause as you get older your lucky if you can count your TRUE friends on 1 hand. Now at the ripe old age of 32 I have 2 vices, coffee and cigs. Ian should kick my arse for falling off..lol

[xmetal2001]

Straight-edge refers to a philosophy that's most basic tenets promote a drug free lifestyle. It developed as an offshoot of the punk rock/hardcore scenes of the early 1980's when the term itself is believed to have been coined by Ian Mackaye, in the self titled song, while he was the singer of the seminal hardcore band, Minor Threat.

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[personman]

I'm not into the whole cult or punk thing or whatever, but I believe in the same stuff. Hope to keep it that way too.

[RingOfScale]

hmm . interesting ... but i dont get the point of it, why make up something special for people with anti-drug lfiestyles ? why not just say anti-drug , instead of maknig up random new terms, that would be like me saying we call people who go to school "Skoolites"?!?!?

[JuggaloDave]

i used to be xXx, but i smoked some weed one day, and was like, hey, this is cool, then i got drunk, and was like, hey, this is cool too. a few friends of mine have broke x as the last year or so aswell; one has the xXx tats on his ankle, and his mom made him break x, which is kinda funny, at least imo. the other was kinda x cause it was what the hXc kids did i think, cause i he got drunk one day and never looked back, and he always acks like he wants to smoke some bud but says he is to old(21 lol). that, and i cant stand how people are like, im xXx, but i drink soda and the like, or i am having premarital sex, but its ok, i plan on marrying her, kinda like im gunna live this kinda style, but with my own twists cause i dont wanna deal the more commen limits.
honestly, i dont think anyone should deny themselves to the expeiriance of the worldly poisons of alc and weed(real drugs are another ballgame, i maybe a stoner, but i am not stupid, lol, im sure that seems a bit off dont it?).
people need to feel special, or to be apart of something, which is cause for the xXx thing in my line of thinking. why i call myself a juggalo, and i make sure people know that, why we have the slipknot maggot corpse and all the other things we have today

[quik]

...Get a job, not high.

[Ov3rmind]

hmm . interesting ... but i dont get the point of it, why make up something special for people with anti-drug lfiestyles ? why not just say anti-drug , instead of maknig up random new terms, that would be like me saying we call people who go to school "Skoolites"?!?!?

So they can have a group of people to identify with who have the same beleifs.

Quite frankly, I'm sick of people treating this as a trend, and that may apply to a few of you in this thread. I've tossed around the idea of becoming straight edge, but never decided to go through with it. This is mainly due to the fact that I don't think I'll be abstaining forever. The reason I do say I'm sick of people treating it as a trend though, is because many people do take it as a serious committment and life style change. It was never created to be a hip thing to do, but that's what way too many people are treating it as now. There's too many 15 minute straight edgers now, and it's destroying the ideals behind it's original purpose.

[insanity415]

I'm not into the whole cult or punk thing or whatever, but I believe in the same stuff. Hope to keep it that way too.

same here. i dont drink or do drugs and i believe in abstinence. but not because i want to be part of a stupid trend. i dont need to be drunk or high to have a good time, and i think sex is a sacred thing. part of the reason is because im Catholic, and the youth group i started going to at my Church is one of the best things that ever happened to me.

So they can have a group of people to identify with who have the same beleifs.

youth group.

[ZAust]

beasley:

im glad you respect straight edge enough to admit to your mistake, and honestly seperate your self from it. there are way too many kids out there who call themselves straight edge yet go out and get sloshed. it disgusts me.

straight edge can mean different things to different people, but the basic ground rules are no drinking, no drugs, no promiscuous sex. some people take it to extremes, such as hardliners or vegans, but the basics still remain. why am i straight edge? its a commitment to myself, because i know without it i would have certaily succombed to temptations in the past.

[ZAust]

same here. i dont drink or do drugs and i believe in abstinence. but not because i want to be part of a stupid trend.

ahem...

would you call something that has made huge positive differences in peoples lives for more than 20 years a stupid trend? i take offense to that remark.