Originally Posted by
daredevil 
I’d also like to know what people think, especially those people who say they’d never drink, no matter what, if some calamity occurred.
Why would a calamity be any different from a lazy Sunday afternoon? The results would be the same: My situation gets far worse that it was before I drank, not better in any way. I would now have two problems - my original calamity, which won't just go away, plus a new one, a fresh re-invigorated drinking problem. I would trade one problem for two, and the second one would quickly turn horrible.
I don't believe in beasts or voices or anything, to me I'm just me - and that me knows perfectly well and with total certainty that absolutely nothing good would come from me drinking alcohol under any circumstances. I know this from long past experience, and it's kinda like knowing that the sun will rise tomorrow morning - it just is, without any doubts. And once I understood this, years ago, I found that my desire to drink faded, and is now gone. Sure, random thoughts may pass by, but even that has become very rare, and I'll go a couple years before I find myself wandering to "wouldn't that taste good...." and then passing the thought along it's way without acting or taking it seriously in any way.