The Inmates are Running the Asylum
DryDrunk
By and large, we as a Nation have abandoned our task of teaching our people how
to quit their addiction, and turned the whole thing over to practitioners of
peculiar 12 Step religion. In this regard, the inmates ARE running the asylum.
DryDrunk
DryDrunk
bobs...@webtv.net says...
>
>C"mon, DD, admit that you're powerless over alcohol, and everything will
>be alright. Everyone will love you for it.
>
>Bobster
>
Well, damn. You're right again, Bobster. I was powerless over drinking. It
really WASN'T my selfish, self_indulgent, pleasure seeking habit. Nope. My
Higher Power used to hold me at gunpoint, make me jump in the car and drive to
the liquor store, and hold the gun on me the whole time I was drinking it down.
It was only after begging for divine intervention from this rescuing deity (on
my goddamn knees) that I was finally delivered from Jails, Institutions, and
Death. I did feel pretty silly kneeling before a doorknob and (later) a
bedpan, however, so I don't recommend anyone choose these items as Higher Powers
as even though AA's official lore describes people who were saved by such
wonderful Gods.
And I mean that most sincerely, I really do.
DryDrunk
Harry
have read while in 8th Grade is the answer? Wow!
Addiction for most people is a life and death struggle. Your interpretation
of Trimpey's message comes across like this
"Just believe Jack Trimpey. He's not a medical doctor and I don't know
about the validity of the Structural Model of Addiction but it should make
sense to anyone who was in 8th grade in the 1960's. Don't believe the World
Health Organization or the American Psychiatric Association. What do they
know? They only have medical degrees and doctorates. Believe Trimpey. He is
a Social Worker and attended an 8th Grade Health class. Don't fall victim to
the Grand Conspiracy. Government is only out to rule you and confuse you by
forcing you to go to AA and the doctors they train just want your money.
Trimpey just want your money too. But that's different because
............... hmmm, well just believe me on
that point too. All you have to do to recover from your addiction is accept
that you are morally defective and realize that you have been thinking with
your baser intellect you self-indulgent, ego-centric, narcissistic,
hedonist. Wake up, shape up and snap out of it! Just say no and you can be
just like me."
Compared to this *argument* the AA message could be the stupidest premise
ever and still make more sense.
love Harry O
8/12/83
DryDrunk wrote in message <6smsdb$k...@drn.newsguy.com>...
DryDrunk
>
>And you believe that information presented from a textbook that Trimpey may
>have read while in 8th Grade is the answer? Wow!
>
took his brain diagram from an eighth grade text.
I myself have had multiple college courses in neurology and neuroanatomy as well
as many in behavioral sciences, while I work in a hospital with many brain
injured people, and see ABSOLUTELY nothing in Trimpey's model that contradicts
anything I've learned. In fact, Trimpey's model makes perfect sense to me,
while I regard the peculiar Twelve Step religion as utter bullshit.
DryDrunk
DryDrunk
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> THE INMATES ARE RUNNING THE ASYLUM:
>
> By and large, we as a Nation have abandoned our task of teaching our people
how
> to quit their addiction, and turned the whole thing over to practitioners of
> peculiar 12 Step religion. In this regard, the inmates ARE running the
asylum.
>
> DryDrunk
>
Amen!!
--Luke
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Glenn S.
>
>I myself have had multiple college courses
Didn't they try to teach you not to be gullible?
> in neurology and neuroanatomy as well
>as many in behavioral sciences, while I work in a hospital with many brain
>injured people,
That's where it rubbed off on you from!!!
>and see ABSOLUTELY nothing in Trimpey's model that contradicts
>anything I've learned. In fact, Trimpey's model makes perfect sense to me,
>while I regard the peculiar Twelve Step religion as utter bullshit.
...but you believe that AA runs the military!!!
You are a cult member. And you don't even know it. You believe, and
defend, anything out of cult leader Jack Trimpey's mouth, no matter how stupid
his paranoid babblings are. That is THE SURE SIGN of cult membership, but you
are too brainwashed to see it.
DD, you are amazing. And dumb.
You are the perfect example of the fact that book knowledge and common
sense are two different things. And after your latest posts, I'm starting to
wonder if you have any book knowledge, either!
Glenn S. (170 of 180)
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"The Recovery Group Movement is Over!"
JACK TRIMPEY, from his
"Rational Recovery" website...
"If you desire, you may completely recover from your addiction to any
substance by visiting there alone. Really. It happens all the time."
JACK TRIMPEY, promoting his
"Rational Recovery" website...
"To make matters worse, Alcoholics Anonymous is religious, and has seized
control of our courts, jails, prisons, the military, and our health and social
welfare agencies. AA operates these institutions to their benefit, through its
members in public positions, in contempt of the U.S. Constitution."
--Jack "I'm not crazy, really" Trimpey