28 days
somebody
Not a bad movie so far. I watched half last night.
Ilusion
> Where does the expression come from? Why 28 days and not 30, or 4 weeks?
>
> Not a bad movie so far. I watched half last night.
When I was in Germany, Asiatic people stated that a pregnancy lasted
10 month. I was amazed about that, I said that this wasn't right.
After a while I understood that they were counting lunar months!
They were as amazed as I was when I proved them that a pregnancy last
only 9 months and maybe a week.
Ana
mikewestvale
> Where does the expression come from? Why 28 days and not 30, or 4 weeks?
>
> Not a bad movie so far. I watched half last night.
As was explained to me some time ago, the signifigance of 28 days
stems back to the insurance industry. That is the maximum allotted
time an insurer would pay for a stay in treatment on the greatest
majority of health care policys. Resultngly most rehab centers
designed their programs to last that length.
Mikewestvale
Tommy Joe
somebody wrote:
>
>
> Where does the expression come from? Why 28 days and not 30, or 4 weeks?
>
> Not a bad movie so far. I watched half last night.
When I saw the title of this post I thought, oh no, here comes
Somebody telling everybody he just went 28 days without drinking. I
really did. I was all set with my response until I saw your post was
about something else. It got me to thinking about the expression "One
day at a time", how it's used in AA, yet at the same time members are
encouraged to count the days they've gone without drinking. In a way,
that's kind of contradictory to the 'one day at a time' philosophy, to
go around counting days already past. If it's gong to be one day at a
time going forward, it should be the same going back.
Tommy Joe
Bob
I don't think you're Robinson Crusoe - but guess on Usenet one can
never be sure;-)
http://www.silkworth.net/grapevine/anniversaries.html
--
Bob
"I don't believe in evil, I believe in right and wrong, and very
often they are the same thing"-Paul Theroux, in Milroy the Magician.
somebody
news:gkhnuv$qpk$1...@reader.motzarella.org...
> Tommy Joe wrote:
>>
>> somebody wrote:
>>>
>>> Where does the expression come from? Why 28 days and not 30, or
>>> 4 weeks?
>>>
>>> Not a bad movie so far. I watched half last night.
>>
>>
>> When I saw the title of this post I thought, oh no, here comes Somebody
>> telling everybody he just went 28 days without drinking.
>> I really did. I was all set with my response until I saw your
>> post was about something else. It got me to thinking about the
>> expression "One day at a time", how it's used in AA, yet at the
>> same time members are encouraged to count the days they've gone
>> without drinking. In a way, that's kind of contradictory to the
>> 'one day at a time' philosophy, to go around counting days already
>> past. If it's gong to be one day at a time going forward, it
>> should be the same going back.
>>
>>
>> Tommy Joe
>
> I don't think you're Robinson Crusoe - but guess on Usenet one can
> never be sure;-)
>
> http://www.silkworth.net/grapevine/anniversaries.html
>
Anniversaries seemed to be very important at the few meetings I went to. It
seemed to be the MOST IMPORTANT THING. The guy or gal could be an
axe-murderer, but if they had gone 20 years without alcohol well then
everyone clapped and smiled and gave testimonials.
mikewestvale
>
> >http://www.silkworth.net/grapevine/anniversaries.html
>
> Anniversaries seemed to be very important at the few meetings I went to. It
> seemed to be the MOST IMPORTANT THING. The guy or gal could be an
> axe-murderer, but if they had gone 20 years without alcohol well then
> everyone clapped and smiled and gave testimonials.
You wait till you hear the cheers for a quarter century of recovery
for a five time divorced circus clown kidney harvester.
Meanwhile the doofusss with a couple dwis practically gets booed. We
do love our gore!
JeePee
I don't think it is less of an achievement if you're an axe-murderer or
not.
I can't help but wonder why he killed the axe in the first place.
--
JeePee
And HEY!!
Let's be careful out there.
- Sgt. Phil Esterhaus -
When the sun shines, it's going to be dark.
The New England Patriots - American Football at its best
http://www.patriots.com/
BasketCase
Maybe because there was a grudge between them and they were unable to
bury the hatchet?
Tim Bruening
mikewestvale wrote:
And those programs work in 28 days?
Bob
If you want them to.
--
-Bob
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of
thought.
-John F. Kennedy
nhoop
>> And those programs work in 28 days?
>>
>
> If you want them to.
>
> --
>
> -Bob
A very good answer!
There is no one definition that fits all alkies. Me, I wanted sobriety, so
it worked just fine. Others get done with the program and run to the nearest
bar. As someone surely said, "We're all different".
Nat
poop on toast
> Tim Bruening wrote:
>
> > mikewestvale wrote:
>
> >> On Jan 12, 9:30 pm, "somebody" <em...@email.com> wrote:
> >>> Where does the expression come from? Why 28 days and not 30, or 4 weeks?
>
> >>> Not a bad movie so far. I watched half last night.
> >> As was explained to me some time ago, the signifigance of 28 days
> >> stems back to the insurance industry. That is the maximum allotted
> >> time an insurer would pay for a stay in treatment on the greatest
> >> majority of health care policys. Resultngly most rehab centers
> >> designed their programs to last that length.
>
> > And those programs work in 28 days?
>
> If you want them to.
It also gets the judge off of your back.
poop on toast
I've been through rehab three times. Twice inpatient, once
outpatient. I have found that most people are there to avoid/cut down
jail time. Bleh...