Straight Edge Shirt Design [13 Jun 2009|11:12am] tilian3 ( image )  I’ve been looking into getting a sXe shirt I designed screen printed, problem being I have to buy a minimum of 24 and since I’m wanting it printed on an organic T-shirt it’s going to end up being more in the 18-20$ range per shirt plus shipping. So, I guess I was wondering if this was a design anyone else would be into buying.   11 comments|post comment

Cooking and sex. [10 Jun 2009|11:12pm] xvxcolin I've been edge for a while now, but two topics have come up recently with friends and I've been at a loss for words cause I don't really know what to say. I know what my personal feelings on both of these subjects are, but I'd like to hear what everyone else thinks. 1.) A friend of mine enjoys cooking a great deal. She was asking me if I would be able to eat something if she were to cook with wine.  Of course my immediate response is no, but I later found out that when you cook wine, the alcohol is cooked out, and you're left with just the flavor of the wine.  Since the alcohol is gone, and that was is what makes wine a mind altering substance, I don't really think it's that big of a deal. I still haven't eaten anything with cooked wine in it, and I'm not sure if I ever will, but personally I don't consider that breaking edge. Any thoughts? 2.) I'm sure this topic has been discussed before, but quite honestly, I'm too lazy to go back into previous topics and look for it.  A friend of mine was saying how he's "more edge" than me because he's never drank or smoked or done drugs, and I tried drinking and smoking years ago in high school.  But the thing is, he's a pretty big slut and is promiscuous.  When I first learned of straight edge about 7 or 8 years ago as a teenager, I was told that having sex before being in a serious, committed relationship is off limits.  Do you consider not having casual sex to be a part of the straight edge community still, or do you think that part of straight edge is dead? Like I said, these topics may have been discussed before, and I apologize if I'm bringing it up again.  But I'm interested to hear what everyone thinks. 38 comments|post comment

Scottish life [07 Jun 2009|07:17pm] yuiller [ mood | curious ] Hey every1! :)  im new to this whole live journal thing and pretty new to the straight edge thing too!!  ive been sober a year and a half now so ive just got some new ink to celebrate! ::)  i do not no one other person that is straight edge altough it seems like theres a following!! tips, advice, goss?? anyone cheers claire x 16 comments|post comment

G'day from Oz [26 May 2009|09:46am] liquidbassline [ mood | optimistic ] [ music | Perpetual Groove - Winterun ] Hey my names Matt and I'm from Melbourne Oz. I am just starting out in this community because I'm intersted in getting my shit together and learning more about the Straight Edge lifestyle. I turned 27 this year and realized that I'm a mess. A slave to booze and partying far too hard, all pitfalls of being in a live band that gigs often. Free beer, free dope, all these excesses pulling my strings like a marionette. I've been playing in live bands since I was 16 years old so I've done my time. But no more. I decided recentley that I want to stop drinking and smoking for my health/happiness (I've never been into drugs any more than dope) . More importantly for my beautiful girlfiriend's sake. We have been together for over 6 years and it's quickly coming to that time when you know you need to take the next step... I refuse to do this as a train-wreck. I will do it strong and sober. I want to do this right. Can anyone give me any advice regarding my decision in this? I want this to be a complete change of my lifestyle - NOT A FAD. Are there many Straight Edge guys/girls in Melbourne? 12 comments|post comment

first post! (: [21 May 2009|10:10pm] revengetherapy [ music | street carp - deftones ] hello there. don't know why i didn't think to look for or join this community sooner. hi, my name is soufex, i'm 20 years old, i currently live in the uk but i'm hightailing it to australia at the end of the year on account of my partner-in-crime lives in melbourne, i'll be hopefully applying for residency in october. i've been edge for a few years now, before then i drank maybe a few times and smoked the occasional joint but my anxiety ruled out the latter and i never really enjoyed the former. i grew up in a small country town with very few friends, back when i was in my early teens, and didn't realise there was an alternative to caving into peer pressure. the funny thing is that despite my friends all used to get wasted at least once a week and try to drag me into it, i got all but disowned for smoking a joint once every six months for a good few weeks. thanx, guys. i got an apology a few years later but it still sucked. anyways, whatever i guess. water under the bridge now i spose. i still drink caffeine in the form of pepsi max but only cause they don't do a caffeine free version of it (i know they do a caffeine-free version of diet coke but pepsi>coke in terms of taste imo), and the occasional energy drink when i need to pull an all nighter but apart from that it's all plain sailing. i like being edge. i don't mind that people drink or do drugs or whatever. i get uncomfortable around utterly trashed people but that's just because i'm a control freak. i don't like it when people go out of their way to, like, justify their drinking/smoking/whatever, though. it makes me feel really uncomfortable. yeah, to me, being edge is important but that's a personal thing, i don't like other people (who aren't edge) making a big deal about it. you know, purposefully addressing me like "oh, i'm going to drink, i'm probably only going to have x many drinks, not that many, blah blah blah" i don't care, stop making me feel awkward kthx. and yeah, it does make me feel awkward and i feel bad that it does, because it shouldn't. boo! i didn't mean to get all heavy and angsty in my first post! is there anyone from the west midlands/uk, or melbourne/victoria here? 7 comments|post comment

[19 May 2009|01:48pm] tilian3 Hey everyone, *waves* I seriously needed to talk to some sxe people, cuase I don’t know anyone here who is. ( Rant ) How do you guys deal with situations like this? Is it apporpriate to ask your friends to do an activity sober, if they don’t ask you to do an activity stoned? How do you defend not wanting to smoke, with out making people think you are attacking them? 6 comments|post comment

[15 Mar 2009|12:58pm] fapplejuice Hello all, I'm new to this community.  I would just like to pose something that started a heated argument with a couple of my friends. I have been told that edge is a "brotherhood" and girls cannot claim.  What do you think of this?  I'm really aggravated about it, and wanted to know everyone else's thoughts. 12 comments|post comment

Good quote about temptation. [26 Feb 2009|11:41pm] fffirefly A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie! Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.. A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about 'badness.' They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in! C.S. Lewis 3 comments|post comment

hello [16 Feb 2009|12:48am] punk_chick_0182 [ mood | thoughtful ] hello group. i'm katie. 1 comment|post comment

Happy Holidays everyone! [26 Dec 2008|05:07pm] x_girlgerms [ mood | cheerful ] Regardless of whether you celebrate anything or not, I just want to take the time to give a slightly-delayed cheer to everyone here. Hope you enjoyed your holidays. =] post comment

new here [15 Dec 2008|12:49am] xxskullerinaxx i'm new to the community and am trying to figure out how to get in touch with straight edge scene in Rhode Island. I've recently gone edge and need a more healthy group of friends to be social with. if anyone can point me in the right direction of where to look i would really appreciate it. 7 comments|post comment

x-posted like a 'motha [24 Nov 2008|10:42pm] xhellax shop.ebay.com/merchant/x_hella_x_W0QQ_nkwZQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZQQ_mdoZ Ebay listings! Tons of great hardcore/metal/punk band shirts up for SUPER cheap! I'm pregnant, could use the extra cash for the holidays and these shirts look sad sitting in our closet. They need to be brought back to life. Here's a list of what's up for auction: T-SHIRTS: -Green Day -Bleeding Through -Bloody Sunday -Comeback Kid -Casey Jones -Cancer Bats -Poison the Well -Tiger Army -Bad Religion -NERD -New Found Glory -Folsom -Defiance of Authority -Total Eclipse -Curbside Service -All But Forgotten -Till Death Do Us Part WORK SHIRTS: -Social Distortion dickies work shirt OUTERWEAR: -"EDGE" track jacket (womens) ELECTRONICS: -SONY Cybershot DSC-P200 7.2MP digital camera + TONS of extras 1 comment|post comment

for those of us who don't read the bio-questions [01 Nov 2008|11:31pm] rachel_laine [ music | Eighteen Visions - Beautiful People | Powered by Last.fm ] ( background to this question... ) Is the reason you became straight-edge still the reason you keep edge? If yes, what made this reason so strong that it will ideally keep you away from drugs and alcohol for the rest of your life? If no, what changed? 13 comments|post comment

The Gordie Foundation [24 Oct 2008|10:38am] soupypictures For the past couple years, my college has invited The Gordie Foundation to campus and has had them speak to the student body. The Greeks and athletes have been in the past required to attend (my guess is to fill the seats, but also to make it look like these representatives of the school care the most), though I've been able to skip it because of previous commitments. My roommate and I have had discussions about this lately. She's not edge, but she doesn't drink or smoke or do drugs (and neither do her parents). We share the exact same view on just about everything drug-related, right down to the fact that I'm a libertarian in name and she may as well be but isn't as vocal about it. Anyway, here's my problem with Gordie (as we so lovingly refer to it here at school): it's a lecture about binge-drinking and the signs of alcohol poisoning. Take care of your friends when you're out, don't binge-drink, yadda yadda. The guy was a freshman in college when he died (after a frat hazing thing, don't even get me started on that), but does anyone mention the underaged drinking thing? Does anyone say the words, "But it's okay not to drink at all"? No. And sometimes, that's all the kid needs to hear. I was one of those kids a year and a half ago, trying to decide if it was something I wanted to do. I had a lot of apprehension about my 21st birthday  -- I'd always been against underaged drinking -- that I just couldn't trace back to an origin. I'm not one to succumb to peer pressure easily, but man. Even at my small school it's almost suffocating. What harm could a couple drinks do? I'd always been uncomfortable when my teammates, especially older ones, drank in front of me or talked about their weekends partying. I was pretty damn close to just falling in and being a "normal" college athlete. Then I read a little about CJ Wilson, closer for the Texas Rangers and one of the few straightedge professional athletes out there. He considers himself a role model figure and he knows that poisoning his body isn't going to make him a better pitcher. In a profession that accepts all kinds of drug habits -- even condoned speed for years and provided it in clubhouses -- CJ made the choice to reject that for himself and for the kids out there who look up to him. I figured it out -- I was expected to drink. But I didn't want to, and I read his reasons for claiming and thought, "I think this is for me. I think this is what I need to do for myself." I needed someone to look up to on my team, and no one was there for me. For my last two years on the team my class has been the oldest, and going into my junior year of college I wanted to be able to be there for my teammates like no one had been there for me. I felt immediately better after making my decision to claim. All that apprehension was gone. It's okay not to drink. It's such a simple sentence. It's so obvious, too. But sometimes kids need to hear it from someone they respect, admire, look up to, or even just enjoy being around. CJ Wilson was that for me, indirectly. I want to be that for others, for my teammates, classmates, close friends. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but I just had to get it out. It's usually hard for me to articulate out loud my reasons for claiming without sounding like a crusader. And I'm not -- I just want the message out there. What people do with their own lives is their own business. But if I can help, I want to. I especially want to help my friends if they need it. I wil always be the person they can go to if they need to be told to stop (that's happened a couple times) or have someone hold them accountable. Going to the Gordie lecture and hearing what they say -- look, I think it's great that they're bringing about awareness of alcohol poisoning and recognizing the symptoms. I think that's important. Just like I think sex ed is important in high school, teaching kids about condoms and birth control and STDs and all that. But I also think it's even more important to mention that it's okay not to. Any time there's a discussion about doing things that are dangerous to your body but are somehow socially acceptable, abstinence must be highlighted as a choice. /exhaustive mind-dump. Thank you for reading. <3 28 comments|post comment

Edge & medication [27 Sep 2008|02:29am] snow_vs_asphalt Hey everyone. I have a question about reconciling taking medication with being edge. I've had some fairly crappy things happen in my life recently and I was just put back on antidepressants after a year and a half without any medication whatsoever. I know I need to get on the meds to be able to cope and be safe at the moment, but I still feel really guilty. As well as abstaining from drug and alcohol use, I don't drink caffeine or take aspirin and I avoid nonorganic foods whenever possible in order to limit the amount of chemicals I ingest. Although I know that taking something prescribed by a doctor is not recreational use or drug abuse, I still feel like a big hypocrite. I really do need to be on the meds again to function at the moment and just get my head to shut up for a while as I figure out how to deal with things, but I know it's still a drug. It's been prescribed to me by a medical professional... but it's still a drug. I've had some people tell me that it's not breaking edge because it's just like being treated for a medical issue, but others have said that it's not possible to be edge and take a bunch of pills every morning. I know this is something I have to figure out for myself but I don't know what to think. It would just break my heart to not be "properly" edge because the straight edge is this core part of me that I absolutely cannot and would not be without. A friend put it to me in a way that really made me think; she said people take drugs to experience an altered state, whereas I am already in an altered state and I will be taking my meds to help myself get back to normal. I do feel in my heart that it's not breaking edge to be taking something for a mental illness that has been diagnosed by a doctor, but I guess I've been really affected by the disbelieving attitudes towards mental illness that are out there, and I know a lot of medications are overprescribed these days. Ultimately, although I feel like I need these meds at the moment, a niggling part of me still feels bad, like I'm not being the best edge person I can be or something like that. Has anyone else ever come up against this? How did you deal with it? 7 comments|post comment

Moderation [27 Sep 2008|01:54am] medlir As so many people have noticed, this community, like so many others, is mostly dead.  I also haven't been around much, and I increasingly seem to miss the emails notifying me of new posts to moderate, so I just removed the moderation requirement entirely.  When it was added, the traffic here was generally several posts per day, and even double digit posts per day at times... there was a lot of junk.  These days... the rare posts that are made are far between, and I haven't declined anything in ages, so it doesn't make sense to keep it on.  If anyone notices any spam/junk being posted, etc, please let me know. post comment

[09 Sep 2008|10:10pm] heykatiexcore I've been straightedge for over three and a half years. The way I describe straightedge to someone who has never heard of it is by saying that I adhere to a philosophy that promotes well-being, self-discovery, a drug-free lifestyle and lifetime positive commitment to myself and the ones I love. It's the only promise I've never broken, and the only one that I know for a fact that I never will. My edge is my life, and my friends all know me well enough to know that nothing they say can make me ever want to be any other way. All of my friends except for one. My best friend, Kayla. We've known each other for over 4 years, and we've been best friends for over 2. We go to college together, and just recently moved into an apartment together. She's always been there for me, and I love her like she was my own sister. The only fights we ever get into are over the fact that she doesn't understand why I'm so passionate about my edge. She gets why I'm doing it right now while I'm young, but recently we spent a weekend at the beach with my mom and her best friend. One night of the nights, my mom and her friend sat on the balcony talking and sharing a bottle of wine, and Kayla turned to me and said, "See? Why can't that be us in 40 years? Hanging out, drinking wine. That's not so bad, is it?" She's said similar things about 'just having a beer while you're watching the game' and things like that. She thinks that I won't fully be able to experience college life without alcohol, however moderate. I've tried telling her time and time again that this is the only thing that's ever meant something to me, but she doesn't understand. How do I express to her that straightedge is more than just a 'for now' type deal? I just want her to be able to see that this is me, for life, period. 11 comments|post comment

[03 Sep 2008|01:48am] thinkclear A new lj-community related to the STRAIGHT EDGE: It seems like most interesting straight edge communities are now almost dead, and people don't talk about their thoughts and their feelings anymore. THIS IS A COMMUNITY FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO SHARE THEIR VIEWS AND TRY TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER. Feel free to join edgeapproach  edgeapproach  post comment

sXe without prejudices [17 Aug 2008|10:48pm] tommy_oakman Hello to everybody. Nowadays in Russia there is a growing number of neo-nazis who call themselves straight edge. I'm sure that only leading a healthy way of life doesn't make you a straight edge anyway. I think that so called "ns sXe" is just a bullshit. So, could you, please post here some links on different interviews or articles, explaining that real straight edge has nothing to deal with right wing shit. 2 comments|post comment

Little story and question... [11 Aug 2008|07:11am] junkteen First of all, I am on the road to no pills at all. I generally stopped taking them about 2 weeks ago, but yesterday, after going ice skating and falling down like, 5-7 times when spinning, I hurt. So when my mom handed me a bottle of ibuprofen I took two. Before I did, we had a little exchange. Me: You know how much I hate this, right? Mom: What? Me: Popping pills. Mom: (somewhat sarcastically) What, is that part of "straight edge"? (I swear you could *hear* the quotation marks.) Me: It's part of mine, yes. Mom: *sighs deeply and rolls her eyes* Brothers: *look at me like I'm crazy* I don't get it. I mean, I know I'm the only straight edge person in the house, I got that. But why do they act like it's some big inconvenience to them? I've made it clear of what I do and what I don't do. I've assured them that I don't hold their beliefs against them, and while I may roll my eyes when my brother says he's "going outside to smoke one*", so does everyone else in the family. Everyone acts like I'm out of my mind when I turn down an offer to try some of their alcohol. This is my family. I thought they'd be a little more supportive of my edge lifestyle, at least I'm not a pothead. Instead, they're basically mocking me, without actually mocking me. Anyone have any "fun" family stories they'd like to share, or any explanation as to why families act this way? *one = cigarette 3 comments|post comment

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