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Do you have sympathy for the alcoholic?
#50do you have sympathy for the alcoholic?
Posted: 8/1/06 at 8:14pm
Yawper, I can relate to that - some years ago, my mother's best friend (since before I was born) suggested I read a book written for children of alcoholics. Everything in that book was familiar to me - and my mother doesn't drink other than the occasional social glass of wine.
There is no way to explain that to people.
RightAmerica
Chorus Member Joined: 8/1/06
#51do you have sympathy for the alcoholic?
Posted: 8/2/06 at 9:01pmIt is a choice, much like homosexuality. I have no sympathy.
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#52do you have sympathy for the alcoholic?
Posted: 8/2/06 at 9:34pm
"It is a choice, much like homosexuality."
Oh, please - if you're here to stir up trouble you can do much better than that. That only makes you look like an idiot, since virtually nothing learned in science or sociology supports your claim.
#53do you have sympathy for the alcoholic?
Posted: 8/3/06 at 10:38am
Thankyou Elphaba!
"It is a choice, much like homosexuality."
HAHAHAHAHAHA! Foolish person...remember those words when a loved one, perhaps your own child...turns into an alcoholic, or 'decides to become gay'...or, another possibility... becomes a gay alcoholic.
Or when YOU go through some negativity in your life that you'll be so well adjusted that you handle it all with a prayer!
Updated On: 8/3/06 at 10:38 AM
#54do you have sympathy for the alcoholic?
Posted: 8/3/06 at 10:41am
Let's all welcome WrongAmerica to the boards, shall we?
Good to have you here, pal.
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#55do you have sympathy for the alcoholic?
Posted: 8/3/06 at 10:43am
I live in a family where alcoholism is genetic, and it's very difficult to avoid. There's a lot of pressure to drink in family events, and mixed with genetic predisposition, it can be really terrible. Our relatives have oftentimes gone into really bad places because of drinking, including my mother. Fortunately, she managed to pick herself up and get rid of it, but most people in my family just don't care about it. I have a sixteen-year-old cousin whose dad drinks with him when they go fishing or to baseball games. And it's hard whenever you are in a fmaily wher you have to have copious amounts of alcohol at baby showers.
In that sense, it can be a disease. But sometimes I have no sympathy. for example, I have an aunt who was very alcoholic and ended up stealing all of her parents' money so that they had to sell their house of 50 years. In that case, I have no sympathy for her and neither does most of my family. Needless to say, if she ever comes around again, we probably won't support her.
But it really depends on the situation, I think.
Reverie
Understudy Joined: 6/3/06
#56do you have sympathy for the alcoholic?
Posted: 8/3/06 at 11:49am
Right America-
Please don't further the image of the "ignorant Christian."
Updated On: 8/3/06 at 11:49 AM
#57do you have sympathy for the alcoholic?
Posted: 8/3/06 at 11:51amPlease. My alcoholic family? Yeah, all of them very strict, devout Catholics. I'm not saying that all religious people are that way, I'm just saying that everyone is guilty of a sin or two. It's odd, they'll all go to Church for like three house, come back for brunch and then start drinking.
Reverie
Understudy Joined: 6/3/06
#59do you have sympathy for the alcoholic?
Posted: 8/3/06 at 3:37pmYes, I have sympathy. Many possibilities for growth in life are unreachable for the addicted. I also think it is a way of dulling pain and that is why it's addictive for some. Trouble is it often causes pain both for the subject and for those who are close. Everyone loses.
kelzama
Broadway Star Joined: 9/14/04
#60do you have sympathy for the alcoholic?
Posted: 8/3/06 at 6:50pmI have sympathy for the addiction, little sympathy for the path of destruction in it's wake.
#61do you have sympathy for the alcoholic?
Posted: 8/3/06 at 6:54pm
As a stepson of an alcoholic, I sympathyize with him and know it's a disease.
I haven't spoken to him in quite some time, but, last I heard he'd been dry for over a year.
#62do you have sympathy for the alcoholic?
Posted: 8/3/06 at 11:47pmnom- Sorry to hear you fell off the wagon again.
"I broke the boundaries. It wasn't cool to be in plays- especially if you were in sports & I was in both." - Ashton Kutcher
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#63do you have sympathy for the alcoholic?
Posted: 8/3/06 at 11:51pmDon't pull your pants down for just me, phanty.
#65do you have sympathy for the alcoholic?
Posted: 9/21/06 at 9:47pm
Alcoholism is like any other addiction, gambling, food, substance abuse, cigarettes. It's an addiction and the only thing that can stop the addiction is the person afflicted.
Accepting that you are addicted is the first step.
The majority of people will not do that.
cheezedoodle
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/15/05
#66do you have sympathy for the alcoholic?
Posted: 10/19/06 at 5:29pmDid we lose her from the wagon today?
#67do you have sympathy for the alcoholic?
Posted: 10/19/06 at 5:40pmthat is a f*cking racist, homophobic, mysoginistic facistic pile of dingo sh*t, cheeze, you rat b*st*rd! how dare you say something...like...i mean...there's something that we...you...i...
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cheezedoodle
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/15/05
#68do you have sympathy for the alcoholic?
Posted: 10/19/06 at 5:42pmThat's right...get it all out. Now - let me open a beer for you.
#69do you have sympathy for the alcoholic?
Posted: 10/19/06 at 5:47pm
*ahem*
He didn't know (didn't know) the thread was loaded!
#70do you have sympathy for the alcoholic?
Posted: 10/19/06 at 5:50pmi'm low carb right now, make it a scotch.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#71do you have sympathy for the alcoholic?
Posted: 10/19/06 at 5:59pmNever. But it brings them to accepting Jesus. I might forgive them.
#72do you have sympathy for the alcoholic?
Posted: 10/19/06 at 8:16pmYou think we can't read backwards?
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#74do you have sympathy for the alcoholic?
Posted: 10/19/06 at 9:25pmSympathy until that person gets behind the wheel of a car & you know the rest
#75do you have sympathy for the alcoholic?
Posted: 10/19/06 at 9:32pmOr a keyboard. *shudder*
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