drinking

[Kayeliz]

There is something to be said for that. I have family who live in Germany and when we go over to visit all of the teenagers and twenty-somethings go out together. It's legal to drink beer at 16 and wine and hard liquor at 18. The German 16 year olds have a better respect for alcohol, put limitations on many drinks they will have (depending if we drove or took the train) and I've never seen any of the Germans have more than probably four drinks in a single night.
My American cousin, who is 22, had to be carried back to the train because she was too drunk.
Some food for thought.

I think you ran into very harmless Germans then. I live in Germany and a few years ago, I ran into two 16-year-old Emo-girls who were trying to get their 14-year-old friend on a tram. He was close to passing out. I had to call his parents while he lay on the floor in front of the main station vomiting. Not a nice experience. The girls told me they'd had a lot of vodka with lemonade.

I myself used to go out a lot a few years ago. During the past years, I've been drinking less and less, just a little bit of wine every now and then. I stopped drinking altogether in may this year after the most awful migraine attack. I keep getting them and they get so bad I need IV's so I though that might get better if I don't drink alcohol at all. I kind of like not drinking.

 

[Mommyhasfaith]

I was really bad into drinking before I got saved. I dont see a big deal with taking a drink here or there but I will never get drunk again. Its a awful feeling and I dont care to go through that again.

 

[caughtthekaty]

I drink. Do not like not being able to control myself and will quit if I feel like I am.

 

[lunalotte1188]

When I turned 21, I didn't celebrate with alcohol. I didn't have that burning desire to drink alcohol the instant I was legal. I think it might have to do with growing up with a family that almost never drinks. I had my first drink much later on, when I was 22. I will drink very occasionally, like once every 3 months. I have never been drunk, and I hope I never do get drunk.

 

[Maka]

I don't drink and right now I don't have any interest in it. I take bendryl for my allergies and that stuff knocks me out so I don't think I could handle alcohol. Lol

 

[Takkles]

When I turned 21 this year the first we did was pack up and go to Atlantic City for the weekend. After that, things got bad pretty fast(well, it lasted 2~ months) so I stopped for a while, but I'm enjoying it again. Was a great way to do my 21st though.

 

[brittany111]

Personally I don't drink-never had any interest in it.

However, I don't have any problem with those who do-I don't see anything wrong with a little every now and then as long as you don't drink too much and loose your head.

 

[Koffiefrats]

Sure I'll drink when I turn 19 in 2 months, but not for the purpose of getting wasted. On my graduation day I had one glass of Rum and Coke with friends and I was done, had no intention of drinking too much. I just don't understand how people could only drink one glass of water, but find a way to down 3 beers... doesn't make sense.

 

[heykevin]

I love drinking but not in excess...

 

[pressingon17]

I did for awhile, not anymore, except maybe an ocational beer. But that's it.

 

[Skarl]

Sure I'll drink when I turn 19 in 2 months, but not for the purpose of getting wasted. On my graduation day I had one glass of Rum and Coke with friends and I was done, had no intention of drinking too much. I just don't understand how people could only drink one glass of water, but find a way to down 3 beers... doesn't make sense.

Its fun.

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[sparklingdust]

I am 23, and I've drank less than a handful of times in my life. One of those times makes for a reaaally funny story. Four years ago after I graduated from high school, I went to Romania for about a year and did some volunteering in a children's home. While I was there, my family came to visit me and we went traveling the Romanian countryside for a week-long vacation, seeing the cities, castles... and like I said, countryside. One evening, we arrived at the bed and breakfast we were going to stay at that night, at which the couple who ran the B & B did not speak a word of English... my family didn't speak a word of Romanian... and I only knew broken Romanian at that point. So what I lacked in my ability to communicate in Romanian, I made up for in friendliness. Which means I took up the offer to have some of their homemade wine. I had no more than half a glass, but when you're small and petite like me, it doesn't take much to start feeling funny...

When I tell people that I don't drink (I don't very often AT ALL), often they see me as too uptight. But the reality is that 1. I have never had any alcoholic beverage that I have actually liked, 2. I used to be friends with some pretty heavy drinkers, and I didn't like what it did to them, because they would get so wasted that they wouldn't remember anything - and I firmly believe that life is worth remembering. 3. It isn't really a temptation for me, 4. I always feel awful about spending money on alcohol, like I could have used the money in a better way.

 

[Timyone]

Blind post.
I am getting into craft beer, and trying to enjoy it, so I drink, but you can't drink too much or you lose the purpose! I think it is a good spot to be in

 

[MacFall]

Blind post.
I am getting into craft beer, and trying to enjoy it, so I drink, but you can't drink too much or you lose the purpose! I think it is a good spot to be in

Good point. Becoming drunk dulls the sense of taste, and I don't drink anything unless I want to appreciate the taste of it.

 

[SavedFromChrist91]

Since being saved through Christ, I rarely drink, and I never drink to become drunk ever again, It's not glorifying God so It's not worth doing. Although I feel 1 drink every so often is perfectly alright. As long as you drink it in a proper way.

 

[ladders145]

Why drink at all? Even if its just a little. There are still negative health effects even if you aren't getting drunk. With alcohol the risk is dose dependant.

 

[MacFall]

1. Because it's yummy and fun.

2. There are health BENEFITS to drinking in moderation.

You'd think that if drinking were inherently bad, Jesus might have just told his mom "no" when she asked him to do something about the lack of wine at that wedding...

 

[ladders145]

Yes there are health benefits but the negative benefits outweighs the positive ones.

 

[MacFall]

I guess Jesus caused people to sin, then, and sinned himself.

 

[ladders145]

In the New Testament there are two types of win fermented and unfermented. In the case where Jesus turned water into wine I believe that it was unfermented wine.