Guest guest Posted December 10, 2001 Report Share Posted December 10, 2001 Just finished reading the most bizarre article and it is in my top two recommends for the day: http://www.anti-heroart.com/workingclassdog3.html kisses Tommy Buoy ....You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise.... --Maya Angelou Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 10, 2001 Report Share Posted December 10, 2001 Did you read the second page of it? There's a surprise ending! -----Original Message-----From: Janice La Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 6:35 PMTo: 12-step-free Subject: Re: a must read Tom Boy: Read the article you suggested- I came away with no doubt that this was written by an AA member. A LONG TIME AA member. An AA recruitment article for young men. You would think he would have had some opinion about something, but noooooo...he just related his experience without comment - Like how he was told that since he had some time in AA, it was necessary for him to find God, and futher, at a Bible study, being told that if he didn't believe in Christ as the Savior, he wouldn't go to heaven. You would think the writer would have written something about how he felt about being told something as radical as that. Noooooooo, but that was how he related his whole story (ended like there are more chapters to come). It was like he was trying to tell someone else's story without knowing a thing about the person. His story just radiated warmth. Anyway, thanks for suggesting it as a read. wrote: Just finished reading the most bizarre article and it is in my top two recommends for the day:http://www.anti-heroart.com/workingclassdog3.htmlkissesTommy Buoy ....You may shoot me with your words,You may cut me with your eyes,You may kill me with your hatefulness,But still, like air, I'll rise....--Maya Angelou Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 10, 2001 Report Share Posted December 10, 2001 Shit! I wish the print wasn't so small leading to page two of the article, I hadn't read that. Thanks for the heads up !! changes everything doesn't it eh? thanks again kisses Tom Boy At 07:06 PM 10/12/01 -0700, you wrote: Did you read the second page of it? There's a surprise ending! Re: a must read Tom Boy: Read the article you suggested- I came away with no doubt that this was written by an AA member. A LONG TIME AA member. An AA recruitment article for young men. You would think he would have had some opinion about something, but noooooo...he just related his experience without comment - Like how he was told that since he had some time in AA, it was necessary for him to find God, and futher, at a Bible study, being told that if he didn't believe in Christ as the Savior, he wouldn't go to heaven. You would think the writer would have written something about how he felt about being told something as radical as that. Noooooooo, but that was how he related his whole story (ended like there are more chapters to come). It was like he was trying to tell someone else's story without knowing a thing about the person. His story just radiated warmth. Anyway, thanks for suggesting it as a read. wrote: Just finished reading the most bizarre article and it is in my top two recommends for the day: http://www.anti-heroart.com/workingclassdog3.html kisses Tommy Buoy ....You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise.... --Maya Angelou Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 10, 2001 Report Share Posted December 10, 2001 Wow, who is this guy? IS he still a stepper? From his experiences and the way he talks about the program I don't think he is. Well, another one caught up in the cult at a young age eh, T-Boy? Did I ever tell you guys about the one kid who wnet to night-rehab with me? He had one week long binge, tried to stop, but the guy who got him to start the binge convinced him that he would have w/drawal. Well, he did, and he did it for a week, started taking clonopins to try and deal with the withdrawal and told the guy who started the mess to fuck off. Well, that same guy told the kid who was in rehab's father what he was doing. His father was a DnA counselor. So, his father forced him to go to treatment, and there he learned about how he was a heroin addict all his life. Because of one week. > >Reply-To: 12-step-free >To: 12-step-free >Subject: a must read >Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 11:29:25 -0800 > >Just finished reading the most bizarre article and it is in my top two >recommends for the day: > >http://www.anti-heroart.com/workingclassdog3.html > > >kisses >Tommy Buoy > > >...You may shoot me with your words, >You may cut me with your eyes, >You may kill me with your hatefulness, >But still, like air, I'll rise.... > >--Maya Angelou _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 10, 2001 Report Share Posted December 10, 2001 Go back and read page two (which I missed the first time around) and it has a really interesting ending. As for that guy? yup been there and done that! well I had probably a total of between maybe 10 drinks before being recruited into AA. Unfortunately because I didn't know how to drink, I gulped them all,drank alcohol straight mixed with tang crystals , I honestly thought that this was " mixing drinks " making me hideously drunk from the very beginning. Wasn't alcoholism at all, just a goofy four-eyed teenager trying to fit in and make sense out of the world! oh yeah and I was terribly lonely and isolated and *gosh* it was wonderful having all those " instant friends " kisses Tom Boy At 01:20 AM 11/12/01 -0500, Gallagher wrote: Wow, who is this guy? IS he still a stepper? From his experiences and the way he talks about the program I don't think he is. Well, another one caught up in the cult at a young age eh, T-Boy? Did I ever tell you guys about the one kid who wnet to night-rehab with me? He had one week long binge, tried to stop, but the guy who got him to start the binge convinced him that he would have w/drawal. Well, he did, and he did it for a week, started taking clonopins to try and deal with the withdrawal and told the guy who started the mess to fuck off. Well, that same guy told the kid who was in rehab's father what he was doing. His father was a DnA counselor. So, his father forced him to go to treatment, and there he learned about how he was a heroin addict all his life. Because of one week. > >Reply-To: 12-step-free >To: 12-step-free >Subject: a must read >Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 11:29:25 -0800 > >Just finished reading the most bizarre article and it is in my top two >recommends for the day: > >http://www.anti-heroart.com/workingclassdog3.html > > >kisses >Tommy Buoy > > >...You may shoot me with your words, >You may cut me with your eyes, >You may kill me with your hatefulness, >But still, like air, I'll rise.... > >--Maya Angelou _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 11, 2001 Report Share Posted December 11, 2001 Actually, there are *four* parts to it. I just discovered the other two.... it starts on: http://www.anti-heroart.com/workingclassdog1.html with this dedication and a couple quotes: Author's Dedication: To anyone who has ever worked in fast food or attended AA meetings and to Jack Trimpey for showing me the truth. " Nothing is ever an epidemic until it happens to white people. " --- Pryor " America's No. 1 export is bullshit. " --- Carlin And on the fourth page, http://www.anti-heroart.com/workingclassdog1.html , at the bottom of the page.... Finally, January 25, 1995 arrived. It was just another day. My Paxil wasn’t working. It hadn’t been working the whole month or so I had been taking it. Things had been steadily going into the shitter for the past four months. I went to an 8 p.m. AA meeting in Irving then went to a liquor store in Dallas. I couldn’t take it anymore! I had been sober now for four years, nine months and 5 days. I bought a 6-pack of Schlitz Tallboys and took it home. Lori was at work. I popped the top on the first one and drank it down. It was sweet nectar to my lips. I felt the velvet fog roll in over my brain. I felt peace for the first time since I could remember. My sobriety date had been April 19, 1990. It turned out to be a day of infamy. The 19th was the day the Branch ians got burned to death in '93. The 19th was also the day the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City got blown up in '95. I was lucky I made it as long as I did. Alcoholics Anonymous did teach me to get up, go to work and pay my own way. It also made me into a patsy under the guise of helping others. AA is a con man and moocher’s paradise. When I drink not many people want to be around me and after endless years of being drained by the con artists and moochers that suits me just fine. Get it? DO YOU FUCKIN’ GET IT!?!? Good! Now bring me a beer, bitch. Re: a must read Tom Boy: Read the article you suggested- I came away with no doubt that this was written by an AA member. A LONG TIME AA member. An AA recruitment article for young men. You would think he would have had some opinion about something, but noooooo...he just related his experience without comment - Like how he was told that since he had some time in AA, it was necessary for him to find God, and futher, at a Bible study, being told that if he didn't believe in Christ as the Savior, he wouldn't go to heaven. You would think the writer would have written something about how he felt about being told something as radical as that. Noooooooo, but that was how he related his whole story (ended like there are more chapters to come). It was like he was trying to tell someone else's story without knowing a thing about the person. His story just radiated warmth. Anyway, thanks for suggesting it as a read. tomboy@...> wrote: Just finished reading the most bizarre article and it is in my top two recommends for the day: http://www.anti-heroart.com/workingclassdog3.html kisses Tommy Buoy ....You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise.... --Maya Angelou Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 11, 2001 Report Share Posted December 11, 2001 At 07:36 AM 12/11/01 -0700, you wrote: >Actually, there are *four* parts to it. I just discovered the other two.... >it starts on: > >http://www.anti-heroart.com/workingclassdog1.html That was an amazing story in many ways. I ended up skimming over some of his job woes, but he paints an excellent picture of a crummy life which led him to seek anesthetic. H. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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