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I beleive that I confused GPrice with you earlier today. I am sorry to

you and the list for any confusion this may have caused. My post " What is

Sober " should have been directed to GP. I have no history wiht GP in therms

of exchanges. Again mia culpa.

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Hello Gprice;

I believe I said exactly what I meant. If you wish to challenge my

semantics, that of course is your choice. If you wish to say

someone acts in a " Sober " manner while under the influence of

alcohol, the laws of most States disagree. Funny they call a blood

alcohol test a " Sobriety Test " Guess police, Governor's nor

legislatures read your dictionary. An alcohol level of .009 is not

considered sober, only not sufficiently impared, to warrant a dwi

charge, but still considered impared to a degree.

As far as my experiences, they sre in fact mine. If you wish to

dismiss them, OK.. If you wish to dismiss me, don't be surprised if

I refuse to cooperate.

I make no statement or allegation that my experience will happen

to all former alcohol abusers. However, if we bet on every case, I

feel certain I'd wind up with all your money.

Like AA, you've left yourself a handy dandy escape hatch. " If the

underlying process of compulsiveity(Is that a word?) is resolved.

That appears to me to be a fancy phrase that means " Disease " or

very close to it.

Employers mostly think any amount of alcohol impairs sober

judgement. Are they also wrong?

I didn't " tabooify(Again is that word?) the use of alcohol, society

has done that in The US, long before even I was born.

You have called my thinking extremist, yet you make absolute

statements in reply. You argue the dictionary, then use words I

doubt are in it.

I happen to believe " Sober " judgement does not come from folks

who are impaired with alcohol and that is really what I see your

argument comes down to.

I think you'll find my long ago attempt at moderation, not a unique

experience. It happens to lots of folks. Could it be because of AA

training and attitudes? Of course it could. I believe the gist of my

entire post was that no period of abstinence prepares one

automatically to moderate their drinking. You say many do. How

many? On a face to face basis how many do you know?

Moderate drinking in our society is the norm. By being abstinent I

am in the minority. However, it ia a large minority, I believe

approaching a third of society who do not drink. Only a small

percentage are former drunks like myself. Alcohol, like coffee, is

an acquired taste, not something such as cocacola which tastes

good to most folks.

Bur remember where our reverence for drinking comes from. It

comes as a part of our hearitage with the mythical Cowboy, who

kissed his horse, shook hands with the girl, kept his problems to

himself, except the ones he settled with a pistol.

The cowboy and the need to drink alcohol are both mythical.

However, doctors I'm sure used it for anesthesia when nothing else

was available and dentistry after a pint of whiskey was common,

though I wonder if the tooth pain or hangover were worse. 8^)

Attitudes to alcohol are culture born, not invented by me. I finally

quit believing in AA and The Cowboy at age 52. I reacall being

devastated when I learned from a great grandson of Wyatt Earp

that he carried, not a pistol, but a sawed off 20 gauge shotgun and

killed from ambush, some hero. I was about 14 at the time, but

figured Wyatt Earp must be an exception, but he wasn't. I learned

the sawed off shotgun, called a " Hog's Leg " , was the weapon of

choice for law enforcement. Oh, The great Grandson, now owns

" Earp Floor Coverings " in Des Moines, Iowa. His Father owned it

when I met him on a job. Yes I did have a nearly full time job from

about age 11 on.

Another experience you might find something wrong with. The

myth gets worse. The " Montana Walk " with men facing each other

with pistols, was invented in Hollywood, I believe in 1928 IIRC.

Didn't happen in the real frontier.

The hard drinking Hell Raising cowboys, were in fact banned from

many towns at railheads. An extremist view of alcohol no doubt.

Actually they were demonizing alcohol, which I think we can agree

was the wrong approach, but was the only one available to them.

As a culture, our attitudes toward alcohol, came from a myth. All

myths are extreme in some regard.

The disease concept has been directly responsible for altering and

liberalizing many laws in regard to alcohol. Some changes were

overdue, some are downright silly. I'll take up a little more space in

explaining a silly one. I was The Law Librarian in prison, did a lot

of cases and worked for a while in the law after release. During

that time " Shock Probation " became an option to the sentencing

judge.

Shock probation is a judge sending someone to prison and then

within 90 days of sentencing, hailing the person back to court and

allowing them to go straight to probation. The shock being the 60-

89 days spent in prison.

I obtained shock probation for about 20 guys. Among them, oops

put the name in by accident, for a guy who was doing 5 years for

11th offense drunk driving by explaining he had a " Disease " and

had never been treated. Unfortunately he was back in less than

three months with numbers twelve and thirteen, which I was able to

get dismissed because they happened while he was in treatment

and on the same day. The parole board cut him loose a year later

and he absconded from parole. The other was on a fifth felony

conviction and the guy was 54 years old and had done four shots in

other penitentiaries. He was a sometimes drinker and I used the

Alcoholism Disease for him too, though he didn't abuse alcohol.

Point is, it was so easy to sell the disease thing even to " Law and

Order " type judges. I used that Disease argument so many times

it was downright embarrassing, but it worked more often than not

by a long shot. I think that argument only failed twice, once it was

on a guy who killed a guard in prison, but there was not much hope

on that case anyway. When the guy did get out, he stabbed his

neighbor, so I'm truly glad my argument failed. Luckily he didn't kill

the man. The shock probation law is mostly a farce, but is still in

The Code of 97, which is the only one I now have.

Point is, I didn't invent it. Did I take advantage of it? Damn Straight

and would again. I regret none of the guys I directly got out of that

place. One that was an indirect result of two cases in which he

was involved in neither, but fit the circumstances, killed a man in a

car Jacking in Colorado. That was regrettable, but unforseen. The

only salve for my conscience is he would have gotten out two years

later anyway.

OTOH, the decriminilizing of Pubic Intoxication, was I think a good

idea. Not based on any Disease, but on the fact the sale of booze

is regulated and taxed by the State as a legal substance.

Therefore the mere fact of being intoxicated, with no other

supporting facts, should not be a crime. Of course with the demise

of the detox centers, public drunkeness is once again a crime in

Iowa and you are not even entitled to a blood or breath test, just

the Ipse Dixit of the arresting officer's opinion is good for a

conviction, opening it up for policeman to settle personal scores

with that law, which they did before so I assume do now.

During my drinking years I had a load of trouble in Des Moines and

some of those cops are still around. I don't go there, knowing that

abstinence is no defense against a charge of public intox. If I have

to go, I make it quick. Of course a charge of public intox, would

smell to high heaven if I'm in the driver's seat of a car.

Mercy!, I almost forgot the repression and sadism you say by

implication my experience stands for. I see it a bit differently. I

would say the repression comes from a majority that says in effect

I must drink to be one of them. Remeber the sign " Never trust a

man who doesn't drink " ? I would say that encourages oppresion

of the minority who doesn't drink, saying a man who doesn't drink

is also without integrity.

Unfortunately for your argument, I've seen many more sadistic acts

done by folks under the influence, though I have met folks who are

sadistic with or without alcohol. I would have to agree if you had

said sadistic alcoholism counsellors. I have seen a fair number of

them and any number, uncondemned is too many. But in fairness

to them, sadistic people are drawn to any place where control over

other people is near absolute. However, sadism on an email list is

near impossible since computer programs have a " Delete " button.

Repression is a good word applied to AA, since it encourages

repression of angers and resentments that in fact need to be dealt

with for most folks.

I will admit that I blame the years of repressed anger for exploding

into a rage and I nearly killed a man as a result. While in therapy,

14 years later, it nearly happened again, this time though I was

abstaining from alcohol and it was an " Almost " that didn't happen.

I also had only been in AA a relatively short time after a fair

abscence and it was directed at two AA members, one a

counsellor, the other her husband. That one is an even longer

story and was over an attack on my wife, not me directly. I kicked

some furniture later, among other things, but not people. I have

little doubt in my mind I'd have hurt them both, had I not been

working on that rage related to PTSD with a clinical psycholigist,

who was instrumental in getting me out of AA.

Some AA thought patterns do have a life of their own, and can

hang around unless constantly challenged, but " Steppism " in my

personal experiences, I believe to be a stretch.

For absolutist thinking, you might discover that merely being Anti

anything is a form of extremism. Senator McCarthy being a tried

and true example, which has nothing to do with alcohol.

Send reply to: 12-step-freeegroups

Date sent: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:08:48 -0700

From: gprice@...

To: 12-step-freeeGroups

Subject: Re: I DRANK!

> I can appreciate the personal 'share' of the below message, which is

> cautionary against someone embarking on an experiment of alcohol

> moderation. At the same time, I see unwelcome similarities to Stppist

> tactics, wherein a person says, [par] " I tried moderation, sure, and it

> worked for X-times, but then I ended up ,2,3,4 at the door of ...

> jails, institutions and death.

>

> You are correct, Abstinence Is an all or nothing thing;

>

> however, Sobriety is NOT, check the dictionary.

>

> Sobriety is moderation.

>

> sobriety and absinnence are not at all the same.

>

> Abstinence, especially in this Western society, is an extreme. This

> partially explains why the Stppist environment attracts people who

> thrive on extreme and fanatical responses to life, and goes to explain

> how this extremism can be surrepticiously exntended to other areas of

> life.

>

> Your post, while it may be well-intentioned, is no different from the

> councel frequently given in the rooms.

>

> If you meant to say Sobriety is an all or nothing thing, then you are

> flat out wrong.

>

> If you ment to say no one returns to non-abusive use of alcohol from a

> history of abuse, you are also wrong: many many do.

>

> In fact, I contend that Taboo-ifying substances or othere elements of

> compulsive behaviors only serves to hide the motivating forces for the

> compulsion and repetitive self-destructive actions.

>

> If a peson has abused a substance and does not want that substance in

> their body anymore, fine.

>

> If a person can inhabit the chemical space of drinking without

> destructive drunkenness, that is also fine; and moderate use is an

> easily obtainable goal, provided the underlying forces which

> precipitated the compulsivity are resolved and redirected.

>

> It is my objective to support people in their choice of Sobriety (=

> temperence and moderation) and to continually point out the

> inaccuracies, extremism, repression and sadism lurking within Steppist

> ideology.

> -GP

>

> wrote:

> original article:/group/12-step-free/?start=7002

> > Hi ;

> >

> > I think staying sober is the flip side of excessive drinking and no

> > amount of abstinence trains us for moderation. Abstinence is all or

> > nothing thinking, just like whiskey till I puke is all or nothing.

> >

> > Changing habits takes a lot of work and an investment of time. I

> > still on occasion mow the lawn or part of it and the doctor has

> > repeatedly told me not to do that. It's an old habit, a man mows

> > his lawn. I have not invested the time to totally break the habit.

> >

> > I don't have the time to invest to learn moderate drinking. My habit

> > with alcohol is all or nothing. For now I'll just stick with that,

> > maybe out of laziness and a substantial fear of old habits returning.

> >

> > Once I returned to drinking after 11 months of abstinence and got

> > really buzzed on three vodka's and thought hey this is okay. About

> > four months later, I had my usual three and woke up in a hotel a

> > hundred miles from home and to this day don't have a clue how I

> > got there. Both our cars were at home. A real no funner.

> > However, I got there in the middle of a blizzard and it was two days

> > before I could get hooked up to get home. It was really

> > embarrassing because I came out of it in the middle of a

> > conversation and had no idea what had been said. (Enter the

> > Twilight Zone Theme Song) What a mess. Worse, I woke up with

> > too much money. Fortunately I DID find out where that came from,

> > but it had me pretty worried that I had done something less than

> > kosher to get that money. As it turned out, four folks had paid me

> > at the bar, which was only two blocks from home.

> >

> > That was the end of any desire to moderate on my part, though in

> > those days it didn't stop me from drinking for long.

> >

> > Duty calls. I still haven't gotten my shop air conditioner fixed so

> > am working nights. Matter of fact I haven't got a good enough path

> > cleared to get it out of the wall. All I need do is take it to the

> car

> > wash and blast the dirt out of the condenser radiator. Physically I

> > don't know if I can lift it anymore. I did last year, but that was

> then

> > and now is now.

> >

> > Take care of yourself ;

> >

> >

> >

> > Send reply to: 12-step-freeegroups

> > From: UUSEAN@...

> > Date sent: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 18:27:59 EDT

> > To: 12-step-freeegroups

> > Subject: Re: I DRANK!

> >

> > > Hi ,

> > > Interesting. I did find the dictionary entry, " not addicted to

> > > intoxicated drink.' to be of interest. In my view, and I must

> admit I did

> > > get the idea from RR's Jack Trimpey, if I drink ,and I didn't want

> to drink,

> > > then I show signs of being addicted. If I don't want to drink, and

> I don't

> > > drink, then by this this line of thinking , I am sober if I don't

> drink, in

> > > that by abstaining, I am avoiding addiction.

> > >

> > > The other definitions are interesting, however. Ane the fact that

> abstaining

> > > per se is not listed at all is very interesting. I hope that today

> I was

> > > sober in the other sences of the word as well.

> > >

> > > SOBER SEAN

> > >

>

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Hello Gprice;

I believe I said exactly what I meant. If you wish to challenge my

semantics, that of course is your choice. If you wish to say

someone acts in a " Sober " manner while under the influence of

alcohol, the laws of most States disagree. Funny they call a blood

alcohol test a " Sobriety Test " Guess police, Governor's nor

legislatures read your dictionary. An alcohol level of .009 is not

considered sober, only not sufficiently impared, to warrant a dwi

charge, but still considered impared to a degree.

As far as my experiences, they sre in fact mine. If you wish to

dismiss them, OK.. If you wish to dismiss me, don't be surprised if

I refuse to cooperate.

I make no statement or allegation that my experience will happen

to all former alcohol abusers. However, if we bet on every case, I

feel certain I'd wind up with all your money.

Like AA, you've left yourself a handy dandy escape hatch. " If the

underlying process of compulsiveity(Is that a word?) is resolved.

That appears to me to be a fancy phrase that means " Disease " or

very close to it.

Employers mostly think any amount of alcohol impairs sober

judgement. Are they also wrong?

I didn't " tabooify(Again is that word?) the use of alcohol, society

has done that in The US, long before even I was born.

You have called my thinking extremist, yet you make absolute

statements in reply. You argue the dictionary, then use words I

doubt are in it.

I happen to believe " Sober " judgement does not come from folks

who are impaired with alcohol and that is really what I see your

argument comes down to.

I think you'll find my long ago attempt at moderation, not a unique

experience. It happens to lots of folks. Could it be because of AA

training and attitudes? Of course it could. I believe the gist of my

entire post was that no period of abstinence prepares one

automatically to moderate their drinking. You say many do. How

many? On a face to face basis how many do you know?

Moderate drinking in our society is the norm. By being abstinent I

am in the minority. However, it ia a large minority, I believe

approaching a third of society who do not drink. Only a small

percentage are former drunks like myself. Alcohol, like coffee, is

an acquired taste, not something such as cocacola which tastes

good to most folks.

Bur remember where our reverence for drinking comes from. It

comes as a part of our hearitage with the mythical Cowboy, who

kissed his horse, shook hands with the girl, kept his problems to

himself, except the ones he settled with a pistol.

The cowboy and the need to drink alcohol are both mythical.

However, doctors I'm sure used it for anesthesia when nothing else

was available and dentistry after a pint of whiskey was common,

though I wonder if the tooth pain or hangover were worse. 8^)

Attitudes to alcohol are culture born, not invented by me. I finally

quit believing in AA and The Cowboy at age 52. I reacall being

devastated when I learned from a great grandson of Wyatt Earp

that he carried, not a pistol, but a sawed off 20 gauge shotgun and

killed from ambush, some hero. I was about 14 at the time, but

figured Wyatt Earp must be an exception, but he wasn't. I learned

the sawed off shotgun, called a " Hog's Leg " , was the weapon of

choice for law enforcement. Oh, The great Grandson, now owns

" Earp Floor Coverings " in Des Moines, Iowa. His Father owned it

when I met him on a job. Yes I did have a nearly full time job from

about age 11 on.

Another experience you might find something wrong with. The

myth gets worse. The " Montana Walk " with men facing each other

with pistols, was invented in Hollywood, I believe in 1928 IIRC.

Didn't happen in the real frontier.

The hard drinking Hell Raising cowboys, were in fact banned from

many towns at railheads. An extremist view of alcohol no doubt.

Actually they were demonizing alcohol, which I think we can agree

was the wrong approach, but was the only one available to them.

As a culture, our attitudes toward alcohol, came from a myth. All

myths are extreme in some regard.

The disease concept has been directly responsible for altering and

liberalizing many laws in regard to alcohol. Some changes were

overdue, some are downright silly. I'll take up a little more space in

explaining a silly one. I was The Law Librarian in prison, did a lot

of cases and worked for a while in the law after release. During

that time " Shock Probation " became an option to the sentencing

judge.

Shock probation is a judge sending someone to prison and then

within 90 days of sentencing, hailing the person back to court and

allowing them to go straight to probation. The shock being the 60-

89 days spent in prison.

I obtained shock probation for about 20 guys. Among them, oops

put the name in by accident, for a guy who was doing 5 years for

11th offense drunk driving by explaining he had a " Disease " and

had never been treated. Unfortunately he was back in less than

three months with numbers twelve and thirteen, which I was able to

get dismissed because they happened while he was in treatment

and on the same day. The parole board cut him loose a year later

and he absconded from parole. The other was on a fifth felony

conviction and the guy was 54 years old and had done four shots in

other penitentiaries. He was a sometimes drinker and I used the

Alcoholism Disease for him too, though he didn't abuse alcohol.

Point is, it was so easy to sell the disease thing even to " Law and

Order " type judges. I used that Disease argument so many times

it was downright embarrassing, but it worked more often than not

by a long shot. I think that argument only failed twice, once it was

on a guy who killed a guard in prison, but there was not much hope

on that case anyway. When the guy did get out, he stabbed his

neighbor, so I'm truly glad my argument failed. Luckily he didn't kill

the man. The shock probation law is mostly a farce, but is still in

The Code of 97, which is the only one I now have.

Point is, I didn't invent it. Did I take advantage of it? Damn Straight

and would again. I regret none of the guys I directly got out of that

place. One that was an indirect result of two cases in which he

was involved in neither, but fit the circumstances, killed a man in a

car Jacking in Colorado. That was regrettable, but unforseen. The

only salve for my conscience is he would have gotten out two years

later anyway.

OTOH, the decriminilizing of Pubic Intoxication, was I think a good

idea. Not based on any Disease, but on the fact the sale of booze

is regulated and taxed by the State as a legal substance.

Therefore the mere fact of being intoxicated, with no other

supporting facts, should not be a crime. Of course with the demise

of the detox centers, public drunkeness is once again a crime in

Iowa and you are not even entitled to a blood or breath test, just

the Ipse Dixit of the arresting officer's opinion is good for a

conviction, opening it up for policeman to settle personal scores

with that law, which they did before so I assume do now.

During my drinking years I had a load of trouble in Des Moines and

some of those cops are still around. I don't go there, knowing that

abstinence is no defense against a charge of public intox. If I have

to go, I make it quick. Of course a charge of public intox, would

smell to high heaven if I'm in the driver's seat of a car.

Mercy!, I almost forgot the repression and sadism you say by

implication my experience stands for. I see it a bit differently. I

would say the repression comes from a majority that says in effect

I must drink to be one of them. Remeber the sign " Never trust a

man who doesn't drink " ? I would say that encourages oppresion

of the minority who doesn't drink, saying a man who doesn't drink

is also without integrity.

Unfortunately for your argument, I've seen many more sadistic acts

done by folks under the influence, though I have met folks who are

sadistic with or without alcohol. I would have to agree if you had

said sadistic alcoholism counsellors. I have seen a fair number of

them and any number, uncondemned is too many. But in fairness

to them, sadistic people are drawn to any place where control over

other people is near absolute. However, sadism on an email list is

near impossible since computer programs have a " Delete " button.

Repression is a good word applied to AA, since it encourages

repression of angers and resentments that in fact need to be dealt

with for most folks.

I will admit that I blame the years of repressed anger for exploding

into a rage and I nearly killed a man as a result. While in therapy,

14 years later, it nearly happened again, this time though I was

abstaining from alcohol and it was an " Almost " that didn't happen.

I also had only been in AA a relatively short time after a fair

abscence and it was directed at two AA members, one a

counsellor, the other her husband. That one is an even longer

story and was over an attack on my wife, not me directly. I kicked

some furniture later, among other things, but not people. I have

little doubt in my mind I'd have hurt them both, had I not been

working on that rage related to PTSD with a clinical psycholigist,

who was instrumental in getting me out of AA.

Some AA thought patterns do have a life of their own, and can

hang around unless constantly challenged, but " Steppism " in my

personal experiences, I believe to be a stretch.

For absolutist thinking, you might discover that merely being Anti

anything is a form of extremism. Senator McCarthy being a tried

and true example, which has nothing to do with alcohol.

Send reply to: 12-step-freeegroups

Date sent: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:08:48 -0700

From: gprice@...

To: 12-step-freeeGroups

Subject: Re: I DRANK!

> I can appreciate the personal 'share' of the below message, which is

> cautionary against someone embarking on an experiment of alcohol

> moderation. At the same time, I see unwelcome similarities to Stppist

> tactics, wherein a person says, [par] " I tried moderation, sure, and it

> worked for X-times, but then I ended up ,2,3,4 at the door of ...

> jails, institutions and death.

>

> You are correct, Abstinence Is an all or nothing thing;

>

> however, Sobriety is NOT, check the dictionary.

>

> Sobriety is moderation.

>

> sobriety and absinnence are not at all the same.

>

> Abstinence, especially in this Western society, is an extreme. This

> partially explains why the Stppist environment attracts people who

> thrive on extreme and fanatical responses to life, and goes to explain

> how this extremism can be surrepticiously exntended to other areas of

> life.

>

> Your post, while it may be well-intentioned, is no different from the

> councel frequently given in the rooms.

>

> If you meant to say Sobriety is an all or nothing thing, then you are

> flat out wrong.

>

> If you ment to say no one returns to non-abusive use of alcohol from a

> history of abuse, you are also wrong: many many do.

>

> In fact, I contend that Taboo-ifying substances or othere elements of

> compulsive behaviors only serves to hide the motivating forces for the

> compulsion and repetitive self-destructive actions.

>

> If a peson has abused a substance and does not want that substance in

> their body anymore, fine.

>

> If a person can inhabit the chemical space of drinking without

> destructive drunkenness, that is also fine; and moderate use is an

> easily obtainable goal, provided the underlying forces which

> precipitated the compulsivity are resolved and redirected.

>

> It is my objective to support people in their choice of Sobriety (=

> temperence and moderation) and to continually point out the

> inaccuracies, extremism, repression and sadism lurking within Steppist

> ideology.

> -GP

>

> wrote:

> original article:/group/12-step-free/?start=7002

> > Hi ;

> >

> > I think staying sober is the flip side of excessive drinking and no

> > amount of abstinence trains us for moderation. Abstinence is all or

> > nothing thinking, just like whiskey till I puke is all or nothing.

> >

> > Changing habits takes a lot of work and an investment of time. I

> > still on occasion mow the lawn or part of it and the doctor has

> > repeatedly told me not to do that. It's an old habit, a man mows

> > his lawn. I have not invested the time to totally break the habit.

> >

> > I don't have the time to invest to learn moderate drinking. My habit

> > with alcohol is all or nothing. For now I'll just stick with that,

> > maybe out of laziness and a substantial fear of old habits returning.

> >

> > Once I returned to drinking after 11 months of abstinence and got

> > really buzzed on three vodka's and thought hey this is okay. About

> > four months later, I had my usual three and woke up in a hotel a

> > hundred miles from home and to this day don't have a clue how I

> > got there. Both our cars were at home. A real no funner.

> > However, I got there in the middle of a blizzard and it was two days

> > before I could get hooked up to get home. It was really

> > embarrassing because I came out of it in the middle of a

> > conversation and had no idea what had been said. (Enter the

> > Twilight Zone Theme Song) What a mess. Worse, I woke up with

> > too much money. Fortunately I DID find out where that came from,

> > but it had me pretty worried that I had done something less than

> > kosher to get that money. As it turned out, four folks had paid me

> > at the bar, which was only two blocks from home.

> >

> > That was the end of any desire to moderate on my part, though in

> > those days it didn't stop me from drinking for long.

> >

> > Duty calls. I still haven't gotten my shop air conditioner fixed so

> > am working nights. Matter of fact I haven't got a good enough path

> > cleared to get it out of the wall. All I need do is take it to the

> car

> > wash and blast the dirt out of the condenser radiator. Physically I

> > don't know if I can lift it anymore. I did last year, but that was

> then

> > and now is now.

> >

> > Take care of yourself ;

> >

> >

> >

> > Send reply to: 12-step-freeegroups

> > From: UUSEAN@...

> > Date sent: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 18:27:59 EDT

> > To: 12-step-freeegroups

> > Subject: Re: I DRANK!

> >

> > > Hi ,

> > > Interesting. I did find the dictionary entry, " not addicted to

> > > intoxicated drink.' to be of interest. In my view, and I must

> admit I did

> > > get the idea from RR's Jack Trimpey, if I drink ,and I didn't want

> to drink,

> > > then I show signs of being addicted. If I don't want to drink, and

> I don't

> > > drink, then by this this line of thinking , I am sober if I don't

> drink, in

> > > that by abstaining, I am avoiding addiction.

> > >

> > > The other definitions are interesting, however. Ane the fact that

> abstaining

> > > per se is not listed at all is very interesting. I hope that today

> I was

> > > sober in the other sences of the word as well.

> > >

> > > SOBER SEAN

> > >

>

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