Fantabulous Secular Connections Check-in Part III
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: UK
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Originally Posted by windysan 
Step 1 - don't do dope
Step 2 - see Step 1
Step 2 - see Step 1
I assume you were SICK of dope (alcohol-whatever), I mean done, finished.
Not everyone is like that. Me for one, alcohol makes me so sick but I still do it, I know smackheads who relapsed after 2 years clean.
You make it sound so simple, and it is. Is that why you keeep posting the same thing?
Big Idiot Man Child
Join Date: May 2004
Location: La
Posts: 5,664
It's simple for me. I know what not to do. For me it's just behavior modification....nothing "spiritual", religious(same thing...LOL), mystical, or otherwise hocus pocus. I didn't have problems during my toilet training years. I didn't have a thing for my mom. I didn't wear womens' clothing. No psychobabble flying spagetti monster mombo jombo for me. I just don't do "A" because it leads to "B" and I really, really don't like "B". "B" is an uncool place to be.
Can You Dig It !?!?!?!
Can You Dig It !?!?!?!
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Davenport, WA
Posts: 4,005
Originally Posted by Fubarcdn
I am thinking about going to AA to check it out if I could easily find a non Christian one.
I am sure the only way to do that is to go to different ones and I am not prepared to invest that much time in it.
I am sure the only way to do that is to go to different ones and I am not prepared to invest that much time in it.
I found one called SOS so I gave a shout out in the AA section and found it is likely to mean either Save Our Souls or Sober On Saturday.
I am probably going to pass because if it was the former I would probably be annoyed and maybe relapse.
I am probably going to pass because if it was the former I would probably be annoyed and maybe relapse.
I am curious Stone what doesn't work with the steps? I am getting the impression that the steps is what AA is all about.
That is the only reason I am even considering going as the social aspect of it doesn't appeal to me at all. I was a bar drinker and I couldn't stand half the people I met at the bar drunk so I doubt if I would want to socialize with the same types of people sober.
That is the only reason I am even considering going as the social aspect of it doesn't appeal to me at all. I was a bar drinker and I couldn't stand half the people I met at the bar drunk so I doubt if I would want to socialize with the same types of people sober.
Big Idiot Man Child
Join Date: May 2004
Location: La
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Originally Posted by ananda
how do you deal with it windysan?
......like sands in the hourglass so are the days of our lives....
Its_me_jen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Salina, Ks
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Originally Posted by windysan
How do I deal with internets peoples coming and going in here at SR ?
......like sands in the hourglass so are the days of our lives....
......like sands in the hourglass so are the days of our lives....
Its_me_jen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Salina, Ks
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Originally Posted by windysan
I don't even know what
means.---------------
gneiss -- I'm going to look for your thread now.
Big Idiot Man Child
Join Date: May 2004
Location: La
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Originally Posted by PaperDolls
:wtf2 Oh, now you're speaking in code! Oh wait, that's not different.....
I don't even know what means.
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gneiss -- I'm going to look for your thread now.
I don't even know what
means.---------------
gneiss -- I'm going to look for your thread now.
I'm dancing around the issue like a good politician.
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Join Date: Nov 2008
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Have not been on line much in the past two days.. Looks like no Bam news. She had posted a thread about death (a discussion about it) on March 4.. sounded like she was really reflective at that time..
ananda - thank you for having your son know how to get in touch with us - you are so right about the attachments .. lots of them already and I am pretty new to this thing.
Good luck finding an AA meeting that works for you Furb.. Seems like lots of others have found that..
ananda - thank you for having your son know how to get in touch with us - you are so right about the attachments .. lots of them already and I am pretty new to this thing.
Good luck finding an AA meeting that works for you Furb.. Seems like lots of others have found that..
Never settle.
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Originally Posted by PaperDolls
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gneiss -- I'm going to look for your thread now.
I have not posted it yet!! I'm sorry. I got called away and couldn't post it. Should have it up in a few minutes.
Its_me_jen
Join Date: May 2004
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Originally Posted by gneiss
I have not posted it yet!! I'm sorry. I got called away and couldn't post it. Should have it up in a few minutes.
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Windy -- are you a govenator or something?
Never settle.
Join Date: Oct 2008
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Step into my nightmare, the water is warm!
As if my fun with the police (see my "FURIOUS at myself" thread) last night weren't enough... the hits just keep on coming. The thing with the cops was my fault, no whining allowed there.
About 30 minutes before I left BF's house to come home his mom called him and told him she has cancer. Obviously he's pretty upset and I spent a full hour of my drive home crying. His mom's awesome and this will not be easy for BF or anyone, of course. It was not the time to ask for details, so we both cried a little bit before I had to leave.
So all the way home I thought, "Well, luckily I have this field trip this weekend for a class and I will be able to kind of take my mind off all this stuff for a couple days and regroup." And I checked my email to find out the field trip is canceled. So I am stuck here, alone with my thoughts for the weekend.
*Grumble*
As if my fun with the police (see my "FURIOUS at myself" thread) last night weren't enough... the hits just keep on coming. The thing with the cops was my fault, no whining allowed there.
About 30 minutes before I left BF's house to come home his mom called him and told him she has cancer. Obviously he's pretty upset and I spent a full hour of my drive home crying. His mom's awesome and this will not be easy for BF or anyone, of course. It was not the time to ask for details, so we both cried a little bit before I had to leave.
So all the way home I thought, "Well, luckily I have this field trip this weekend for a class and I will be able to kind of take my mind off all this stuff for a couple days and regroup." And I checked my email to find out the field trip is canceled. So I am stuck here, alone with my thoughts for the weekend.
*Grumble*
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Hi secular peeps 
My move into the new apartment was brutal. Here its 2 weeks later and I'm still as sore...very sore..ack so out of shape. The girlfriend is recovering in a skilled nursing facility. I'll be glad when she gets well enough to go home. I'm just now getting back to my groups at the clinic, boy how I missed them...even though they can be a bit chaotic...f2f recovery is best for me. Not to say SC is second rate, I do get a lot of support here but I get the feeling I don't connect well with others online...(LOL...I get the same felling in the 3D world). I think it due to my PTSD when I was able to detach and disassociate during the childhood traumatic abuse, plus the resistance to trust others. I'll continue to work on that. After all online groups are an excellent place to practice new behaviors.
Keep going forward in recovery.
My move into the new apartment was brutal. Here its 2 weeks later and I'm still as sore...very sore..ack so out of shape. The girlfriend is recovering in a skilled nursing facility. I'll be glad when she gets well enough to go home. I'm just now getting back to my groups at the clinic, boy how I missed them...even though they can be a bit chaotic...f2f recovery is best for me. Not to say SC is second rate, I do get a lot of support here but I get the feeling I don't connect well with others online...(LOL...I get the same felling in the 3D world). I think it due to my PTSD when I was able to detach and disassociate during the childhood traumatic abuse, plus the resistance to trust others. I'll continue to work on that. After all online groups are an excellent place to practice new behaviors.
Keep going forward in recovery.
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It's funny you said that Zencat...I find that i tend to be able to be more honest, more receptive and learn more new ways to grow on line here at SR...then after months and months those things start showing up in my f2f AA groups and relationships...then after some time there, i am able to make those changes at work, in the family and stuff like that.
The infinate ways people work things out is what gives me such hope for sobriety and life....Thank god there is more than one way to skin a cat....
ooops now i have offended the godless, poor zencat, least and a variety of others in one sentance.
Bam....I wait patiently for your return...you too DK :ghug
The infinate ways people work things out is what gives me such hope for sobriety and life....Thank god there is more than one way to skin a cat....
ooops now i have offended the godless, poor zencat, least and a variety of others in one sentance.
Bam....I wait patiently for your return...you too DK :ghug
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