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Positively 62nd Street

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More options Apr 9 2006, 11:20 pm

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From: "Positively 62nd Street" <not_lik...@all.notatall>

Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 23:20:50 -0400

Local: Sun, Apr 9 2006 11:20 pm

Subject: Re: A.A.'s 3rd Tradition

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"Starvin'Marv" <marv...@hotmail.com> wrote in message

news:1144563145.329572.219150@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

> If I am truly "honest" with myself, I have no desire to quit drinking.
> I love drinking, I love alcohol, I love the feeling it gives me. My
> desire to quit drinking is imposed upon me because I can no longer
> tolerate the effects. Show me an alcoholic that would not love to
> embrace the habit again if they could embibe "socially" without
> terrible consequences.

That's why it says 'stop' drinking as opposed to 'quit' drinking. I'd say
that few alkies, especially while still drinking, can handle the concept of
quitting, even if they've tried to do just that a hundred times. Stopping...
or putting it on hold for today or right now... is something we can grasp.
There is always tomorrow if I want it and so make that decision when I
consider it again at that point.

I'd have to ask Miss Semantics (who I am glad to see post) for the
definitive on this one... but for me there is a huge difference. I say all
the time that I haven't had a drink in 24 years and still have not quit...
it's a today thing for me.

--
Nothing is sure
nothing is pure
and no matter who we think we are.
everyone gets his chance to be
nothing.

Bruce Cockburn

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