You want to see spirits? Spend 2 weeks drinking alcohol. Then stop. Do this for the 126th time and on the 127th one, give up and ride the storm out for last time. It is during that storm you get to see spirits. People miss the point with people who talk about their boozer daze. Believe it when we all understand completely the choices we made. It hurt a lot of people in ways as strange and tragic as anyone can imagine. So that is really a deal breaker kinda thing when somebody says, "well fuck dude, you chose to drink. what did you think was going to happen?" I mean, what is gained from what is known already? The individual experience, the humanity, and the knowledge that may one day prevent, by default, any such immediate reaction, anything so... standoffish and uncool, any message through any medium, taken seriously or not by anybody or not, from reaching its intended destination, whatever that may be, sent by whomever for whatever reason... it's a cosmic thing.