Who needs a MOJITO time? ( Volume 5 )- Page 163

[DG]

Posted: 5/19/06 at 2:55am

Shira - admit you have a problem!

I'll sit down and rest while you recount all you have a problem with

[liotte]

Posted: 5/19/06 at 2:56am

I already admitted that. What's step 2?

[shira467]

Posted: 5/19/06 at 2:57am

State your sins?

Well crap. So many...none too exciting though.

[DG]

Posted: 5/19/06 at 2:59am

Liotte - that's all I know. I gave up on 12-stepping almost immediately - when I found out their whole premise was, "You don't have the power yourself . . ."

[liotte]

Posted: 5/19/06 at 3:02am

If you do a 12 step program, you have to give up your addiction. I'm not willing to do that.

Time for bed, night!

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 5/19/06 at 3:03am

The 12 Steps:

1. We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - that our lives had become unmanageable

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character

7. Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs

[DG]

Posted: 5/19/06 at 3:05am

DD - thanks for sharing that.

I still say, "Bleh."

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 5/19/06 at 3:07am

I see it as a tool. It works for some, not for others. I had a hard time with it because it's more religious than they admit to. But I acknowledge how some people's lives have been changed for the better thanks to programs like AA and NarcAnon.

[DG]

Posted: 5/19/06 at 3:09am

My opposition to the religious aspect could pretty much be assumed. It's still the whole 'you are powerless' aspect that REALLY gets to me.

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 5/19/06 at 3:11am

Well... I do believe some people get to that point, where their addiction takes over their lives and nothing else matters.

Anyway... I've gotta head to bed. I'm crashing fast. Have a good night sir! Lovely to see you, I wish I wasn't so damned tired.

*hugs*

[DG]

Posted: 5/19/06 at 3:17am

I was just about to say the same thing!

*HUGS* back

[shira467]

Posted: 5/19/06 at 3:44am

Oy. I am unwilling to give up my BWW addiction. So THERE!

*hugs* to y'all.

Off to bed.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 5/19/06 at 9:56am

12 steps - that is easy, grab two six packs and open them one at a time until you get to twelve.

Speaking of which, I think we have about 12 make up softball/baseball games this weekend due to all of the rain in the last few weeks.

Happy Friday.

[DAME]

Posted: 5/19/06 at 10:48am

A discussion on addiction and I miss it? I have no addictions.. except maybe this board. Everything else I do for pure pleasure..

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 5/19/06 at 10:55am

Dame, Are you at the office yet?

[DAME]

Posted: 5/19/06 at 10:56am

Yes sir. You?

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 5/19/06 at 10:58am

Yes, I had a quick court call - out in 15 minutes which was nice. I have new files that need my attention.

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 5/19/06 at 10:58am

Happy Friday mojitians!!!

Busy day ahead... stopping by for a quickie.

[DAME]

Posted: 5/19/06 at 11:02am

Hi DD. Have a great weekewnd. Well.. I am off to a breakfast meeting with my boss. French Toast at Hamburger Hamlet. Lucky I did a extra 30 minutes on the treadmill. That way I don't feel like such a beached whale after.

Updated On: 5/19/06 at 11:02 AM

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 5/19/06 at 11:09am

We used to have a few Hamburger Hamlets here. Well, I need to get some work completd!!

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 5/19/06 at 11:23am

The deli is not open yet! I need breakfast!!!

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 5/19/06 at 11:37am

I am such a junkie, I took a stroll down the street to the Palace and got a poster signed by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg and met Stephanie Block - she is gorgeous!!!

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 5/19/06 at 11:47am

Wow! That's awesome! What are they in town for?

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 5/19/06 at 11:55am

The Pirate Queen which premieres this Fall in Chicago. So, I will see a show before Liotte!!!

[liotte]

Posted: 5/19/06 at 11:57am

Liotte might be making a trip to chicago to see it!