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Old 03-03-2013, 12:10 AM
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Originally Posted by markinsf View Post
Ok. I'm guilty of using those terms but I don't know how it falls into some type of promotion.
Like I mentioned early, its not the exact use of those terms which is indicative of promotion.

Originally Posted by RobbyRobot View Post
Its when a poster speaks more to popularise the way and means they discovered their new life of sans-alcoholism, and less their own struggles and successes within their own experiences. When they generalize that since it worked with them, it can work as well with others, if others would only give it the proper effort. When they take others shares and reduce them to bite-sized out-of-context statements and then proceed to say that the posters' offerings fall short of the desired goals, expectations, requirements, what-have-you of a generalized solution requiring the validation of others.
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