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Old 06-18-2004, 04:33 PM
Mias
 
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Re: If you can't stop drinking

Rocky IV - You are either brilliantly intellectual or intellectually
brilliant! One of the two. Why do you not invest in an audio tape of M Scott
Peck called "Alcoholism the sacred disease". It is equally up your street as
down your street can get. The Scott Pecked guy is a smoker with a
psychiatric doctorate, very humble and all the right universities as well I
say old chap. I think - Therefore I am...
Kind regards
"rockhound" <helo@null.com> wrote in message
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> People here can't help you. If you really can't stop drinking, only
> God can help you, and only if you want him to. He doesn't seem to
> mind if you're a jerk - he's not that picky, and, we all gotta start
> somewhere. He will exact a price though. But try not to confuse
> those of them who think they've found god with those of us who
> actually have.
>
> To those of you who have somehow once upon a time hurt bad enough to
> have found some spirit (ie. Bobbly L. et al), there is more where it
> came from. The same thing that got you down won't get you back up
> again, though. http://tinyurl.com/yv67q Learning to put our own
> desires below others' needs requires willing effort and practice, but
> it's a habit that promises to enrich our lives beyond anything that
> pursuits fueled by self-centered fear could possibly offer. Beyond
> being emotionally satisfying, it's one of the most important steps in
> becoming a mature person. Unfortunately it doesn't come naturally to
> alcoholics, which is why we have to have God's help, relying on faith.
>
> If you don't try with a will, you will drink yourself to oblivion,
> madness, and death, though. Put down the wrongdoings of others,
> whether imagined or real, in black and white, resolutely look for your
> part in things. The inventory is ours, not the other guy's. Relief
> will not come from proving them wrong, but admitting that we are.
>
> Good luck, all.
>
> Thanks for tolerating me while i undressed myself before the mirror
> that was you; i will go redress elsewhere, ever seeking the real
> fairest in the land, pay my respects.
>
> rock
> --------
> Why don't you take a good look at yourself and describe what you see,
> and baby, do you like it?
>
>
> Yeah - i'm gone. Nothing personal, no offense, really, but you guys
> are really boring. Maybe that Haitian farmer Levi Strauss & Co kicked
> the shit out of might have some ideas about what to do with truth,
> justice and love, since the alcoholics obviously had no use for it.