Re: Not so fast missy.....



"Kimberly" <goldenrulzNOJUNK@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"soonamie" <wind@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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|
| > Two months, three weeks, one day, 11 hours, 8 minutes and 49 seconds.
| > 977 cigarettes not smoked, saving $188.18. Life saved: 3 days, 9
hours,
| > 25 minutes.
| >
|
| not to rain on parade, but unless one comprehends or gets close to
| understsanding existence itself, then prolonging or cheating death by
| a few hours doesnt really have much significance.
| many humans have lived and died on this piece of rock floating in space,
| and many have found the purpose, many others have not.

Look Buster. Don't jump into a nice post about a successful
accomplishment
with drivel. Thanks.

Well, at the risik of disagreeing with this years Captain of the AS3 police,
there is a lot of good stuff in this post, even if it's not expressed
exactly as I would have.


| Tis a big planet friends, yet it is barely a piece of dust in comparison
| to what we know floats around us, let alone getting into 'other'
galaxies.

Uh huh.


| Anyhow, "giving up" security blankets is not a link to 'what is going
on'.
| (whether the security blanket is ;; smoking, sex, alcohol, making money,
| keeping up with jones', cleaning, gossiping, peeking, ... it really
doesnt
| matter, as each is the equivalent of each.)

Each is not the equivalent of each. Smoking and sex are totally
different.
As is making money, etc. I'm sorry you equate something nasty with
something beautifully nasty. It all matters.

I believe that Soonamie was speaking of addiction to any of the things that
he named. In that case there is much to be said for 'each to each'.
Overdoing anything can lead to behavior that, at the least, retards personal
growth. Merely giving up any addictive behavior is not a recipe for
constructive living. Most often it just transfers the dysfunction to another
substance/practice. We have to find out what our security blankets were
covering up and deal with those issues. If we don't, we relapse, sooner or
later.



| This group relates to smoking, another group relates to alcohol, another
| group relates to crack, another group relates to spousal abusal.......
| this list goes on for a 'lifetime', , , the 'Topic' scenario just
doesnt
| seem
| to end.

So you're here because...

BTW - The crack group is down the block. The spousal abuse is the other
way.

Several folks in this group, me included have written that we are candidates
for membership in more than one 'topic' group. Any of these groups can be a
launching pad for personal change/growth. I, for one, am convinced that my
experience quitting drugs and alcohol greatly help my quitting of nicotine.
In my experience it is the rare person who is excluxivley screwed up by one
thing. It is almost always a combination of things in our lives that we have
to work on.



| What really matters is finding out the truth. This needs to be done for
| identities sake. A person who doesnt know who or what they are, or
| what they are doing here, or what is their purpose for 'sleep then wake,
| sleep then wake, sleep then wake', really needs to focus on this matter
as
| if their life depended on it.
| All the above mentioned groups, this one included, would then have no
| reason to exist... if the truth be found by all. its a group win.


Speaking of identity. WAKE THE *** UP! If it smells like a troll does
that make it a troll. Probably.

If that paragraph didn't make sense to you, then I can't explain it any
better. One person's troll post contains the next person's nugget of truth.


| Seriously folks, dont fuss elevating a "last time I did it" date on
things,
| it
| really truely doesnt build up your individual inner self esteem.
| Get your minds around questioning whom or what you are and you will
| never fuss with security blankets again. (dont like the word addiction,
its
| as silly as any word i have seen written in russian that i dont
understand.)
| Focus on things you will definately be thinking of in 30 or more
| years, focus on them Now. Always be prepared. Always look for the
truth.

Nothing wrong with blankets. We're giving folks 30 extra years ya
numbnuts.

WE are not giving anybody anything! WE are merely sharing our experience
strength and hope with others in the hope that some nugget we toss out lands
next to someone who can use it.


| You are much more than what you think you are....... you are human,
| and your 'humanity' didnt 'just happen'. your dramas of being smokers
is
| oh' so small in the scheme of things.

OH Puh-lease...


Once again, I can't find anything to argue about. If all I was was an
ex-whatever . . . that's not much to hang a life on.


| i came to this group today for a reason that now escapes me, but i will
| drop back in a few days.
|
|

You poked a hole in Kathy again didn't you, Kent?


More constructive input.

Of course, all of the above is just my not-so-humble-opinion and may
actually be a bid to take over as Captain of the AS3 police. ;)

Mike W. DOF


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