Agent_Orange
10-15-2003, 02:42 PM
Rett49@webtv.net (Loretta) wrote in message news:<25172-3F80EAC8-225@storefull-2157.public.lawson.webtv.net>...
> Have a question for everyone...
> Would you all agree that the common thread amongst A's are:
> Selfishness & Self-Centerdness?
> Why is that so?...
>
> Rett
No, that was Bill Wilson's cult-religion routine:
"You are so selfish and self-seeking and evil that you need
to join my cult religion and support me in comfort
for the rest of my life."
It is not necessarily any more selfish to want to feel good
than it is to want food or air.
Now some people have gone to great lengths to get their
feel-goods, to the point of hurting others, but that is
not a universal characteristic of all addicts or alcoholics.
Trying to explain all alcoholics' problems as "selfishness,
self-seeking, and self-will run riot" is really just trying
to use a simplistic answer for a complex problem.
Doctors are more and more seeing that over-use of alcohol
is often caused by underlying physical or mental illnesses;
the addicts are just trying to kill their pain by
self-medicating.
Have a good day.
* Agent Orange *
* agent_orange@linuxmail.org *
* AA and Recovery Cult Debunking *
* http://aorange1.tripod.com/ *
** Being surrounded by a group of people who keep telling
** you that you are powerless over alcohol, and that your
** will power is useless, is not getting "support". It is
** getting sabotaged.
** With friends like them, you don't need any enemies.
> Have a question for everyone...
> Would you all agree that the common thread amongst A's are:
> Selfishness & Self-Centerdness?
> Why is that so?...
>
> Rett
No, that was Bill Wilson's cult-religion routine:
"You are so selfish and self-seeking and evil that you need
to join my cult religion and support me in comfort
for the rest of my life."
It is not necessarily any more selfish to want to feel good
than it is to want food or air.
Now some people have gone to great lengths to get their
feel-goods, to the point of hurting others, but that is
not a universal characteristic of all addicts or alcoholics.
Trying to explain all alcoholics' problems as "selfishness,
self-seeking, and self-will run riot" is really just trying
to use a simplistic answer for a complex problem.
Doctors are more and more seeing that over-use of alcohol
is often caused by underlying physical or mental illnesses;
the addicts are just trying to kill their pain by
self-medicating.
Have a good day.
* Agent Orange *
* agent_orange@linuxmail.org *
* AA and Recovery Cult Debunking *
* http://aorange1.tripod.com/ *
** Being surrounded by a group of people who keep telling
** you that you are powerless over alcohol, and that your
** will power is useless, is not getting "support". It is
** getting sabotaged.
** With friends like them, you don't need any enemies.