If every cigarette I've inhaled was a compliment, I might feel good about myself.But they're not. So...I'm stuck with the cancer. Hurray.But the cigarettes feel good when.Things are bad.And I smoke.And they feel better. Well.Not better, but I can deal with them. Or rather.I don't care that they're there, and that they're bad.It doesn't.Matter. I guess.Which is weird because they're only...

[An essay I wrote for English/World Studies]As stated inthe Bhagavad Gita, "There are three gates leading to hell: lust, anger, and greed. Every sane person should give these up, for they lead to the degradation of the soul." If this passage holds truth, then it can be said that the soul of a man is degraded. Throughout history, there are multitudes of events where these "gates" that allegedly...