am i?

[afiforever]

can i call myself straight edge?

I've decided not to drink and smoke and i love hardcore.
Is that all there is to it?

[xsecx]

Originally posted by afiforever
can i call myself straight edge?

I've decided not to drink and smoke and i love hardcore.
Is that all there is to it?

since you're proclaiming a love of afi, I'd have to say right now you're probably suspect.

[XrandomideazX]

SUSPECT TO DEATH!AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

[afiforever]

Originally posted by xsecx
since you're proclaiming a love of afi, I'd have to say right now you're probably suspect.



what do you mean by suspect?

[a_man]

Yeah I quit drinking on my 17th birthday which was January 7th, 2004.. not too long ago.

I was just sick of watching all my friends ruin their lives, getting kicked out of school and some of them getting kicked out of their house.

I looked at sXe as a way to save myself from being like them. I don't want to do that to my body..

[xsecx]

Originally posted by afiforever
what do you mean by suspect?

Main Entry: 1sus·pect
Pronunciation: 's&s-"pekt, s&-'spekt
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin suspectus, from past participle of suspicere
1 : regarded or deserving to be regarded with suspicion : SUSPECTED <investigates suspect employees>
2 : DOUBTFUL, QUESTIONABLE <whose skills are suspect -- Peter Vecsey>

number 2.

[xsecx]

Originally posted by a_man
Yeah I quit drinking on my 17th birthday which was January 7th, 2004.. not too long ago.

I was just sick of watching all my friends ruin their lives, getting kicked out of school and some of them getting kicked out of their house.

I looked at sXe as a way to save myself from being like them. I don't want to do that to my body..

do you feel like the reason you don't do those things are because of straight edge?

[afiforever]

Originally posted by xsecx
Main Entry: 1sus·pect
Pronunciation: 's&s-"pekt, s&-'spekt
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin suspectus, from past participle of suspicere
1 : regarded or deserving to be regarded with suspicion : SUSPECTED <investigates suspect employees>
2 : DOUBTFUL, QUESTIONABLE <whose skills are suspect -- Peter Vecsey>

number 2.

why does liking afi make me suspect?

[xsecx]

Originally posted by afiforever
why does liking afi make me suspect?

because a lot of people have gotten a partial idea of what straight edge is from AFI. and a lot of times that idea is incorrect. I'm not saying you're not, I'm just saying that it takes more interaction with someone than just a yes no question.

[afiforever]

Originally posted by xsecx
because a lot of people have gotten a partial idea of what straight edge is from AFI. and a lot of times that idea is incorrect. I'm not saying you're not, I'm just saying that it takes more interaction with someone than just a yes no question.

i saw davey had the x's and the i came to this site to find out what it is. from what i found it's not drinking or doing drugs and stuff like that and listening to hardcore.
isn't that correct?

[xsecx]

Originally posted by afiforever
i saw davey had the x's and the i came to this site to find out what it is. from what i found it's not drinking or doing drugs and stuff like that and listening to hardcore.
isn't that correct?

it's part of it. but it's also an entire subculture centered around it. Have you heard alot of straight edge hardcore?

[afiforever]

Originally posted by xsecx
it's part of it. but it's also an entire subculture centered around it. Have you heard alot of straight edge hardcore?

no, but i'm interested. could you give me some good bands and i'll buy some c.d.s

[xsecx]

Originally posted by afiforever
no, but i'm interested. could you give me some good bands and i'll buy some c.d.s

top of this section is a thread called master list. that should give you some stuff to go from.

you might also want to look up the history of straight edge. where it came from and what calling yourself it means. you might agree, you might not.
http://www.truetilldeath.com has a decent history section. but it's mostly a history of bands and not necessarily a history of the movement.

[afiforever]

Originally posted by xsecx
top of this section is a thread called master list. that should give you some stuff to go from.

you might also want to look up the history of straight edge. where it came from and what calling yourself it means. you might agree, you might not.
http://www.truetilldeath.com has a decent history section. but it's mostly a history of bands and not necessarily a history of the movement.

thanks for the help.

[xsecx]

Originally posted by afiforever
thanks for the help.

no problem. if you have more pointed questions, let me know.

[XrandomideazX]

AFI is never a good source of straight edge facts

[a_man]

Originally posted by xsecx
do you feel like the reason you don't do those things are because of straight edge?

When I decided to quit drinking I never really knew what straight edge was.. Heard of it but never understood it. My friend asked me if I was straight edge when I told him I quit drinking. I told him I did not really know what it was then he explained it..

I thought about it and decided, hey why not?

[xsecx]

Originally posted by a_man
When I decided to quit drinking I never really knew what straight edge was.. Heard of it but never understood it. My friend asked me if I was straight edge when I told him I quit drinking. I told him I did not really know what it was then he explained it..

I thought about it and decided, hey why not?

do you listen to a lot of edge bands?

[a_man]

Not ALOT but I guess a couple.. minor threat.. I got their cd that has all their songs on it, can not remember the word they used for it... I dont really know which ones are because I do not know the history of most bands... I guess 2 people in AFI are straight edge.. I'll just list some bands I listen to.. emery, murder by death, thursday, tigerarmy, the distillers, poison the well...and thrice all I can think of atm....

[xsecx]

Originally posted by a_man
Not ALOT but I guess a couple.. minor threat.. I got their cd that has all their songs on it, can not remember the word they used for it... I dont really know which ones are because I do not know the history of most bands... I guess 2 people in AFI are straight edge.. I'll just list some bands I listen to.. emery, murder by death, thursday, tigerarmy, the distillers, poison the well...and thrice all I can think of atm....

you should check out the master list thread. there are some bands in there you'd probably like.

[straightXed]

Originally posted by a_man
Not ALOT but I guess a couple.. minor threat.. I got their cd that has all their songs on it, can not remember the word they used for it...

That would be their "complete dicography"