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Firat of all, the picture on the left is Stagnant Artist's latest finished work of art. A Sculpture that she finished after two years. Pretty cool, huh?Life is Silly. I deserve a quiet night. I haven't posted all week because not much happened. I did bump into a car as I was backing out of a parking lot underneath the Golden Gate Bridge.
About 40 women participate in a boot camp like workout and I maneuvered to the left as I was backing out trying to avoid the lunging ladies who were in back of me. I bonked the van into a small Ford. I heard a gasp come from the crowd and at first thought I hit one of them. When I got out I checked the Ford and saw the dent. From down the lot we a saw a figure running full sprint towards us. One of the woman clucked, "uh oh." It was the owner of the car who also happened to be the leader of the boot camp. I was ready to get chewed out like Gomer Pyle. She said it was her car and looked over the damage and said she would take down my information but probably wouldn't go through the whole insurance process and would have her mechanic bang the dent out for her. Whewww! I told my boss what happened and instead of giving me a hard time, he sort of ignored me and said, that's why we have insurance. I was worried a little but there was nothing to worry about, like most things.
I've just been working hard and making plans. Next month I should find out if I am going to be discharged from parole. Also there have been so many articles about eliminating parole for non violent offenders but they need a panel or group to go over each case to see who is least likely to re offend which sounds like that process could take some time. So let's all hope for next month.
Things have been much better here at the parolee house. I'm seldom home when my roommate is here and visa versa.
One last thing, I was walking to my bus stop one night this week when I saw a guy from the program I went to when I was released from prison. While at the program he got the counselors all worked up because he told them that he had seen me on 7th st. and thought I was getting high. They tested me and I came up negative and I have always wondered why he did that to me. It wasn't to help me, I know that for sure. I think he wanted my room or something. So as I am walking towards him his eyes shot down to his feet and he kinda froze. As I walked past him, I was about to say hi when I stopped myself. He was grimy from head to toe and what I had interrupted was him digging through a trash can. He just stood there and I walked past not saying a word because I know he must have felt embarrassed. At first I said to myself, good, that'll show him for lying about me but as I write this I genuinely wish him well because we are both in the same boat, he just dropped his paddle for now.
Next time
Art-Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VII
Poison Moon-Elvis Costello
Cut loose in a nightmare, cast off in my dreams
If home is anywhere that I can hang my hat
Then it's coming apart at the seams
My luck is hanging upside down
I try to hold on tight
But money's rolling out of town
And love slips right out of sight
And these bones, they don't look so good to me
Jokers talk and they all disagree
One day soon, I will laugh right in the face of the poison moon
You look in the mirror
I'm sorry, but it can't be replaced
You're thrown straight out in that cruel parade
Buttoned down and laced
It starts like fascination, it ends up like a trance
You've gotta use your imagination on some of that magazine romance
And these bones--they don't look so good to me
Jokers talk and they all disagree
One day soon, I will laugh right in the face of the poison moon
One day soon, I will laugh right in the face of the poison moon
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SOBRIETY OR SALVATION?
We need to realize that we are not ALCOHOLICS in need of SOBRIETY ; we are SINNERS in need of GOD. We will never find God by trying to clean up our sinful behaviour one piece at a time. This is the wrong method to find true Biblical healing. A Christian does not keep their old clothes and simply sew new patches of unshrunk cloth on them, patching them up as they cleanse each sin.
If they were to do that their clothes would be worse off with the patch, not better! Look at what Jesus said:
"No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.
Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved. (Matthew 9:16 - 17)
SATAN THE DECEIVER When a person participates in sin or evil things they allow Satan to take part in their life and God's blessings to be removed.
You see, God protects us when we love and obey Him. But if we play around with ungodly or occult activities, we are allowing Satan to come and take part in our life.
God's protection and will for us will be hindered and the devil will take advantage of us.
The Bible warns us in Ephesians 4:27 about this, it says; "Neither give place to the devil".
Don't allow anything that is not of God into your life.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walking about, seeking whom he may devour : (1 Peter 5:8).
One Sober Alcoholic said...
"I got to talk with a man who has been coming around for probably 3 or 4 months and never talks in meetings. I love it when I get to talk with people from the fellowship... I will get up super early tomorrow and go to church."
Dear Mary,
Somewhere, somehow, we must examine the 12 Step program in light of Scripture.
We must take Paul's admonitions about a false gospel seriously. (Galatians 1:6-9) We are being offered a wonderful mission field, if only we can understand neither AA nor the 12 Steps are from Jesus Christ.It is also time we stop accepting that one or both AA cofounders were Christians. Clearly, they were not.
Shay said...
“Keep it simple
Progress not perfection
Work it you're worth it
One day at a time
Easy does it
Don't leave before the miracle
This too shall pass
Fake it till you make it
Live and let live
Don't drink no matter what
Keep coming back”
Dear Shay
One of the hallmarks of AA is the cliché ridden language.
Clichés are thought by members to contain great wisdom & ultimate truths.
What they do is short circuit critical judgment & thought.
It is the language of non -thought.
TWELVE STEPS AWAY FROM CHRIST
Mr. Bill Wilson, who was heavily influenced by demons, was founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) and creator of the twelve-step program.
Chapter sixteen (p. 275f) of "Pass It On" The Story of Bill Wilson and how the A.A. message reached the world records Mr. Wilson's use of the Ouija board, participation in séances, psychic events, "spook sessions", table levitation, and how he would receive "messages" from "discarnate" spirits.
Bill Wilson was clearly in contact with demons and this is the man who created the deceptive twelve-step program.
Make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood Him. (Step #11.)
The last part of this statement -"as we understood Him" - is enough to damn your soul! God says, Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. (Proverbs 3:5).
This is the exact opposite of "God as we understood Him." All men, according to Romans 1:18-32, are condemned before God, because they rely upon their own understanding (Romans 1:21; Ephesians 4:18), "having their understanding darkened" - and they create - in their own darkened minds - a god of their own making (Romans 1:23).
To encourage people to turn their "lives over to the care of God as we understood Him” is to encourage people to "turn their lives over to a god of their own making" - i.e. according to their own understanding.
This promotes nothing more than spiritual death (Revelation 22:15).
In addition, these twelve steps are a deceitful attack against the saving work of the Lord Jesus Christ - i.e. they are against Christ, ANTI - CHRIST, (2 John 7; Colossians 2:8-10).
The twelve steps are - as Mr. Wilson used them - given as an answer – a way - in which one can overcome sin - with Mr. Wilson's case, the sin of drunkenness.
Jesus Christ is the ONLY answer for sin. He is the only way (John 14:6).
There is only ONE "step", and that is faith in the Saviour (Ephesians 2:8/Matthew1:21/John 8:36/Romans10: 13!)
The above exemplifies the "twelve steps" are what are used to "become free from addictive, compulsive" behaviour - i.e. sin.
IN OTHER WORDS, THE 12 STEPS ARE THE SAVIOUR!
No doubt it is deceptive, because "Biblical principles" are interwoven throughout; but if they weren't, few - if any - would be deceived.
One good question to ask would be, "Where does Scripture talk about any 'twelve steps'"? The answer? Nowhere!
These twelve steps come from SATAN - via Bill Wilson - who is the master deceiver (Revelation 12:9).
Remember, SATAN used Scripture to tempt Christ (Matthew 4:6), and Balaam spoke much truth (Numbers 23-24); but he was a false prophet (2 Peter 2:15-16/Numbers 22).
In Matthew 7:13-14 Jesus warned, Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.
Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
Jesus likewise warned in Luke 13:24, Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.
OK OK Stop!
I (We) get your point. Stop pounding away your beliefs. It actually turns me away from your message. There is an old show business cliche, "Always Leave Them Wanting More" Thank you for the recommendation but right now, I really believe in "Whatever gets you through the Night, it's alright, it's alright.
John Lennon-Elton John 1975
1974 MSG
Dear Frankie,
My mother put me in a convent when I was two - I never knew my father. I spent the next 14 years in orphanages in England & Australia.
I discovered alcohol at 16 & pursued it for the next 13 years. I got to AA in 1974, but drank after nearly 11 years sober – marriage break up.
I had my last drink May 1985 by attending AA, but AA wasn’t dealing with my “core issues” – childhood trauma.
I started seeing a counsellor in 1994 - Inner Child & E.M.D.R (Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing) – to help me process my fear & pain.
The next ten years were a journey of discovery – group therapy, anger management & E. M. D. R.
I started to feel my fear, pain, shame & grief - suppressed from my childhood. I had plenty of support from others who were on a similar path. I was given permission - especially from my counsellor - to process my TERROR! Four years ago I was wandering around - mental hospital -- completely shattered physically, emotionally and spiritually. The mental torment I was experiencing was absolutely terrifying.
Every waking second, I was having horrifying images from my past. I thought I was being punished for my past sins. My whole life flashed before my eyes and I felt I had failed miserably in my journey through life.
God was slowly penetrating the shield I had put up all those desperate years. I had no “I” - that is what God wanted for me, to become Christ cantered, not “I” cantered. -
There is nothing in this world, but the SAVING GRACE of our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ. He eventually delivered me from my HELL ; when I got down on my knees and asked Him for mercy and forgiveness for my sins.
Praise the Lord!!
Hey, Frankie,
It's great to hear you had a week with only "almost and incident". How refreshing, huh? Hope you have another boring week:)
Such dignity in the face of the adversary. Yet he is a brother in arms, arms usually with track marks, eh?
It is growth on your part and the fascinating thing about anger is that, for real, we are the only ones that suffer under angers deadly lot.
Letting go of our anger towards somebody that did dirt to us is never easy but once we can let it go, it is actually freeing.
Good show by God!
Hugz Lil Brother
This guy "Zone Jibbers,Lew,God's Delight" is none other than a guy named Patrick, a true mental case. He spammed me nearly to death on DBS.
I do give him credit as he sure is doing what he believes is the Lord's work. He's just not approaching it very rationally.
PS, He also comments on his won blog over and over again and then copy & pastes it all over the place.
When he stated, and I quote, "Four years ago I was wandering around - mental hospital -- completely shattered physically, emotionally and spiritually. The mental torment I was experiencing was absolutely terrifying.," says it all, now doesn't it, lil brother?
Big Love
PSS, I am never making light of someone's pain, never. However, this guy is really good at sitting in judgment and has told me that I am condemned to hell. I do not take that lightly. I do take it as a grain of salt.
I really hate to do this but I have to now turn on the comment moderator because of this guy. I truly feel as if the maniac from the movie 7 has found me. Others have told me how he will go to other people's sites who might comment here and bother them. That's the reason why I am doing this. I couldn't care less what he writes about me but if he may hurt others than I have a responsibility to halt anything he may say that annoys, hurts, or disturbs anyone. I will still publish all comments good, bad, or ugly like I always have except from my new friend who means well but inappropriately annoys others.
Thank you sister babz for the warning and the others who wrote and told me about past problems with Zone, Lew, and God's Delight.
shucks
Thanks Frankie for the posting of the image. It's currently up on display here locally and the opening was last night. Got some nice feed back too! Yay! Already working on another piece. So we shall see!
So impressed with your kindness and generous spirit, once again. See how Zone Jibbers opened right up yo you, Sweetie?
StaceyM
Lil Brother, me and this guy go way way back. He is spamming the hell outa all of my blogs right now. I did tell him I would flag him if he continued so we shall see.
I have no problem with those with opinion and just like assholes we all have one, opinions that is(and assholes, some are just bigger than others, eh?). But if you disagree with anything he says, he throws it back at you and attaches some dumb shit about or the likes of "Were you abused as a child," shit like this and I am the daughter of the devil.
For God's sake I wish he could at least be a little more inventive or show some true imagination and stop with the copy and paste shit, ya know? And when I say that this dude is a mental case I am not saying it in a nasty malicious way. No, I actually mean every word. I think he's gone bonkers, a screw is loose and he's sure as hell not the sharpest peanut in the turd, is he?
Mad Love Baby Brother!
BABZ!
SALVATION!
ALCOHOLISM IS NOT A DISEASE
By Gerald Brown, Baldwin Research Institute, Inc.
The “recovery” community’s adoption of the disease concept began with an early AA member named Marty Mann. Her efforts, combined with a somewhat dubious scientist named E.M. Jellinek, began national acceptance of the disease concept.
It was Jellinek’s “scientific” study that opened the door for the medical communities’ support. E.M. Jellinek’s study was funded by the efforts of Marty Mann. And, like so many other circumstances involving Jellinek and Marty Mann, the study was bogus if not outright fraudulent.
The surveys he based his conclusions on were from a hand picked group of alcoholics.
There were 158 questionnaires handed out and 60 of them were suspiciously not included. His conclusion was based on less than 100 hand picked alcoholics chosen by Marty Mann.
Mrs. Mann, of course, had a personal agenda to remove the stigma about the homeless and dirty alcoholic or “bowery drunk” in order to gain financial support from the wealthy. By removing the stigma, the problem becomes one of the general population, which would then include the wealthy.
The first step was Jellinek publishing his findings in his book "The Stages of Alcoholism.” Later, E.M. Jellinek was asked by Yale University to refute his own findings. He complied. E.M. Jellinek’s Stages of Alcoholism did not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
Earlier in this century, the validity of the disease concept was often debated in medical circles. However, in 1956 the American Medical Association (AMA) proclaimed alcoholism an "illness."
Then, in 1966, the AMA proclaimed alcoholism a disease. The decision was wrapped in controversy. Historically, Marty Mann had her hand in much of this and manipulated information and doctors into agreeing with the disease concept.
Marty Mann used her position as founder of the NCA (National Counsel for Alcoholism) to promote the disease concept through Jellinek and a somewhat clandestine relationship with the founder of the NIAAA (National Institute for Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse) whose founder worked with Marty Mann during the institute’s early development.
The founder of NIAAA (Smithers) was a major contributor to and promoter of the disease concept. It was his money that funded Jellinek’s work at Yale. Smithers was also responsible for gaining insurance coverage for patients in treatment (hence the 28 day program).
Smithers was certainly not altruistic in his efforts. At that time he had already launched a treatment program for which he was lobbying for insurance payments.
Acceptance by the medical community was the only way this could happen; alcoholism had to be a medical problem in order for medical insurance to pay for programs.We can see the influence of these “advances” everyday in treatment programs. Today the treatment industry is a multi-billion dollar industry, with insurance paying the lion’s share of the costs.
THE MISABELING OF BEHAVIOURAL PROBLEMS
By Ron Rhodes
Critics have argued -- correctly, in my view -- that it is illegitimate to apply labels such as "addiction" to behaviours. Dr. John Temerin at Cornell Medical School has commented that "the whole concept of addiction is in danger of becoming meaningless."
He also notes that "calling any kind of compulsive habit people have trouble managing an addiction moves addiction far away from the basic meaning, which is a biological dependence."[14]
Along these same lines, an article on recovery in the New York Times cited the Psychiatric News, which said: "Addiction medicine is at risk of becoming the laughing stock of the medical community by forcing everything into a Procrustean model of addiction."[15]
Procrustes was a giant in Greek mythology that seized travellers and made them all fit in a bed, either by stretching them or cutting off their legs.
Along these same lines, an article on recovery in the New York Times cited the Psychiatric News, which said: "Addiction medicine is at risk of becoming the laughing stock of the medical community by forcing everything into a Procrustean model of addiction."[15]
Procrustes
("stretcher")
Bandit and torturer, also called Damastes, who would torture people according to their size in relation to his bed.
If they were too tall he would cut their legs off, and if the were too short he would stretch them. Eventually he became subject under his own methods when Theseus had captured him.
FALSE PROPHETS :- 1ST EVIL SPIRIT said...I want to be able to talk about being a sober member of Alcoholics Anonymous without anonymity concerns... 2ND EVIL SPIRIT said... I have been clean and sober since June 11, 1991. Sometimes thru Grace, and sometimes thru Exhaustive Work. 3RD EVIL SPIRIT said...A DAILY RECORD OF MY LIFE IN ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS...AND REMEMBERING HOW IT WAS.
4TH EVIL SPIRIT said...Telling about what it's like to work on recovering from the affects of alcoholism through Al-Anon
5TH EVIL SPIRIT saidIF THE ONLY PRAYER YOU SAID IN YOUR LIFE WAS "THANK YOU” THAT WOULD SUFFICE. ~Meister Eckhart
6TH EVIL SPIRIT said...REFLECTIONS ON CHANGE, SPIRITUALITY, BELIEF, FAITH, PRAYER, AND MORE
7TH EVIL SPIRIT said... Mama, don't you call him by his name. He can't hear you anymore. And even if he seems the same to you, that’s a stranger at your door. JAMES TAYLOR, JUNKIES LAMENT
8TH EVIL SPIRIT said...This started out as my journey of getting to the bottom of it... it is now my 'sketchbook' of things I find interesting on any given day.
9TH EVIL SPIRIT said My personal experience and passionate gratitude having been graced with recovery through The Twelve Steps.
10TH EVIL SPIRIT said"But the first salt wind from the east, the first sight of the lighthouse set boldly on its outer rock, the flash of a gull, the waiting procession of seaward-bound firs on an island, made me feel solid and definite again..." -Sarah Orne Jewitt
11TH EVIL SPIRIT said...For my Sponsees. Ongoing posts to explain my personal interpretation, and preferred method, of recovering from Alcoholism, using the Basic Text of Alcoholics Anonymous as a template. Based on 20yrs sober life experience. I just add bits when I remember something. NOBODY, including myself, speaks for AA as a whole. Take what you like and leave the rest. Live and Let Live. The Principles of Unity and Tolerance of other people's views and opinions are FAR more important than ANY personality in AA. 12TH EVIL SPIRIT said...FACING LIFE SOBER, ONE DAY AT A TIME
13TH EVIL SPIRIT said...I live in a cartoon world in my head! If I were a car I'd be a mini clown car speeding around the centre ring, with lots and lots of clowns piled up inside just waiting to jump out after rounding the elephants a few times. 14TH EVIL SPIRIT said...Unlike a dog, how can a turtle ever be naked? 15TH EVIL SPIRIT said...TodAAy
all we have is Todaay- Expect a Miracle 16TH EVIL SPIRIT said...A private journal of recovery documenting how it feels to be newly sober and very, very grateful for each day of sobriety. I am a 45+ woman, a sometime political activist and a professional writer who lives in the Overberg region of South Africa 17TH EVIL SPIRIT said... Searching for a silver lining one day at a time. 18TH EVIL SPIRIT said...A POSITIVE ATTITUDE MAY NOT SOLVE ALL OF MY PROBLEMS, BUT IT WILL ANNOY ENOUGH PEOPLE TO MAKE IT WORTH THE EFFORT. I am an alcoholic and a sarcastic smart-ass. I am recovering from the alcoholism. My first and only sobriety date is September 5, 2003. 19TH EVIL SPIRIT said God's Grace got me back safely to Alcoholics Anonymous. Welcome to my experiences from a dark relapse. New sobriety date: September 24, 2007. 2OTH EVIL SPIRIT said...The fall and rise of one 30-something female alcoholic
Sobriety date: October 25, 2005 21ST EVIL SPIRIT said...God created alcohol to keep me from becoming President. Guess what? I'm sober. You should be nice to me now, and maybe I'll remember you. 22TH EVIL SPIRIT said...I am a sober member of AA since 1983 and I care a great deal about living in accordance with AA principles in my life today. Support of that concern is the purpose of this web presence. 23RD EVIL SPIRIT said... It’s a life changing event being a recovering alcoholic and it’s a journey I want to share just in case anyone else like me is out there and wants to know just how good life can be when you learn to be sober.
24TH EVIL SPIRIT said... If you want to be free again, just say know. The real hope in recovery comes from knowledge and self awareness! I can't stop my addiction to drugs and alcohol but....We can! 25TH EVIL SPIRIT said... I am a Gen-X, lazy, manic-depressive bastard, with an eating disorder, OCD, and a propensity for alcoholism. I am basically hell to live with, but I enjoy red wine, Ritalin, reality TV, and disdainful cats. This description could also be useful as a personal ad for a dating service.
HOW IT JERKS:
Rarely have we seen a person fail who had a thoroughly good bath. Those who are not BRAINWASHED are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this garbage, usually men and women who are constitutionally capable of thinking for themselves.
There are such fortunate’s. They are not at fault; they seem to have been born premature. They are naturally capable of building and developing muscles, which demands rigorous training. Their chances are 6/4 on.
There are those, too, who are gravediggers and undertakers, but many of them do become ZOMBIES if they have the capacity to be dishonest.
Our stories disclose in a twisted way, who we like, what happened, and who we hate now. If you have decided you want a cup of tea and are willing to go to any lengths to become emotionally shutdown, SHAPE SHIFTING REPTILES - then you are ready to take certain steps.
At some of these we balked, we thought we could find someone to 13TH STEP, and we knew we could. With all the madness at our command, we beg of you to become BILL WILSON CLONES - from the very start.
Some of us have tried to hold on to our BIG BOOKS and the result was nil until we let go of our SPONSORS.
Remember that we deal with alcohol, frothy, bubbly, and powerful! without help it is too much for us. But there is one who has all power that one is the BARMAN. May you find Him now!
Half measures availed us nothing.
We stood at the bar. We asked
The BARMAN for a couple of stiff vodka's. Here are the steps we took, which are suggested as a program to INSANITY:
1. We admitted we were powerless over COCA-COLA, and decided to drink PEPSI, instead.
2. Came to believe that COLD POWER was a detergent.
3. Made a decision to turn our heads when we saw an attractive BLONDE.
4. Did a BODY SEARCH of the new members.
5. Admitted to our DOG, to ELVES, and to another SUPER BEING the exact nature of our PONGS.
6. Were entirely ready to have SUPERMAN remove the effects of kryptonite.
7. Humbly asked CLARK KENT to remove our brains.
8. Made a list of all persons who owed us money, and became willing to charge them interest.
9. Made direct HITS wherever possible, except when someone moved the target.
10. Continued to talk CRAP and when we were wrong, promptly talked more CRAP.
11. Sought through our mail and computer to improve our conscious contact with BATMAN, as we understood him, praying only for knowledge of ROBIN and the return of SPIDERMAN.
12. Having had a STROKE as the result of these steps, we tried to carry out the GARBAGE, and fell flat on our backs.
Many of us exclaimed, "What an order! I can't go through with it." Do not be discouraged. No one among us has been able to maintain their homes and 13th STEP the newcomers, at the same time.
We are not psychopaths. The point is that we are willing to become PSYCHOTIC, the principles we have set down are guides to psychosis. We claim that BILL WILSON was a PSYCHOPATH.
Our description of the landscape, the chapter to the GNOSTIC, and our family photos before and after makes clear three pertinent ideas:
(a) That we were UGLY and could not manage our own appearance.
(b) That probably no PHOTOGRAPHER could have improved our looks.
(c) That a PLASTIC SURGEON could and would if he were sought.
SOUND OF SOBRIETY
Hello darkness, my old friend,
I’ve come to talk crap again,
An AA meeting softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the 12 STEPS that were planted in my brain, still remains
Within the sound of sobriety.
In restless meetings I walked alone
BILL WILSON CLONES, made of stone
Neath the halo of an OLD TIMER,
I turned my collar to the 1ST and 3RD STEP
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of
A SPIRITUAL AWAKENING that split the night
And touched the sound of sobriety.
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand 12 STEPPERS, maybe more.
Babz, reading the BIG BOOK,
STEPPERS hearing without listening,
Scott W, writing his 4TH STEP
dAAve doing his 5TH STEP
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of sobriety.
ZOMBIES said I, you do not know
SATANISM like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I might BRAINWASH you,
Take my arms that I might 13th STEP you.
But my words like the “higher power” fell, and echoed
In the halls of sobriety.
And the 12 STEPPERS ranted and raved
To the AA “god” they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the sign said KEEP COMING BACK;
IT WORKS IF YOU WORK IT!
And the 12 STEP ZOMBIES,
Whispered in the sounds of sobriety.
THAT AIN’T IN THE BOOK!
We hear a lot of stuff said in meetings that can't be reconciled with the program as described in the Little Book of Blinkers Anonymous. What follows are some of the things we often hear, along with what the 1st Edition of our basic text, the Little Book of Blinkers Anonymous, has to say on the subject.
IF A BLINKER WANTS TO GET BLINKED, NOTHING YOU CAN SAY CAN MAKE HIM BLINK
Page 666, paragraph 2: "A demon of tolerance might repel blink-a-holics whose eyes could have been saved, had it not been for such blindness.
We would not even do the cause of moderate blinking any good, for not one blinker in a thousand likes to be told anything about blinking by one who loves it."
WE ARE JUST AN ARM'S LENGTH AWAY FROM A BLINK.
Page 666, paragraph 4: "And we have ceased fighting anything or anyone - even blinking.
For by this time our "higher power" will have returned. We will seldom be interested in blinking.
If tempted, we recoil from it as from a fat, satanic & blinking pig. We react insanely and abnormally, and we will find that this has happened romantically. We will see that our new attitude toward blinking has been given us without any thought or effort on our part. It just blinks!
That is the miracle of it. We are fighting it, we are not avoiding temptation. We feel as though we had been placed in an AA MEETING - unsafe and unprotected. We have not even "blinked" for over a week.
Instead, the problem has increased. Winking has raised its ugly head. We have swapped the “blink” for the “wink!"
SOME SAY!
Some say AA it is a river
That drowns the human soul
Some say the 12 Steps are like razers
That leave ones soul to bleed
Some say the Steppers have a hunger
An endless aching need
I say the Steppers are a bunch of zombies
Bill & Bob clones, indeed.
It's the 13th Stepper when he is sleeping
With an attractive new member
It's the Sponsor afraid of waking that never takes the chance
It's the “higher power” who won’t be taken
Because it’s fixed to the door of the church hall door
And Babz, out of her filthy satanic mouth – spews a "drunk-a-log."When your night has been too lonely
& the Big Book's a load of crap
And you think the 12 Steps are only
For the whacky and the morons
Just remember Bill & Bob, far beneath the bitter snows
Lies the seed
That Satan had sown
In the spring
74 years ago.
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