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Old 06-13-2005, 11:55 AM
Ken Ragge
 
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Re: Sobriety without a 12 step program

stuart wrote:

> kohlrabi_croce <kohlrabi_croce@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1118641198.902015.57870@g44g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
>
>>Ken,
>>
>>Makes sense to me. Wow, those people are rabid. Somebody even told
>>me to stuff cotton down my throat, and somebody else told me that they
>>know better than I do, what advice is good for me.
>>
>>Fuck a bunch of that! ( from a poem which got us all kicked out of a
>>major chain booskstore)

>
>
> What message are you responding to? If it's mine, the I will tell you I have
> absolutely nothing against Ken's ideas, in fact they are good ideas. It's
> his fakery that I was criticising. He's creating an infomercial here.
>
> Don't be too harsh on recovering people, no matter what path they take, and
> it is possible they will be kind in return.
>
> After all, some of them are sick mentally. That's why they appear to have
> rabies, my friend.
>


Stuart,

So much for the Western ideal of a marketplace of ideals. We must "be
kind" meaning not critical, of a pseudo-Christian cult that not only
lies and misleads the public to gain new members, but also works hand in
hand with the government to get millions of coercees.

I don't think so.

Ken Ragge