*****We get to come into the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous and practice things like humility, self-restraint, honesty… trust, selflessness, human interaction, tolerance… LOVE* we don’t just get to learn, WE GET TO PRACTICE with, and on each other! And unlike many places in the outside world -if we get it wrong ~we get to comeback and try again! You didn’t really think you were gonna find happiness, Serenity, contentment simply by no longer drinking and acting the wayou did-did you? After all calm of the world is still the world-the same world we drink and drug over; he same world we were miserable and resentful ove; the same world we feared.

*We’re not supposed to walk in here day in and day out for 20 years and exhibit the same inabilities as day one. If we are struggling to the same degree year after year in the same areas… 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️ If we really really try earnestly, we can experience considerable improvement in any area. Perhaps one of the most difficult things to take hold of is an earnest effirt with regard to our… Such things as envy or intolerance or fear or prejudice… How exactly do we master these things?

If we are sensitive we should not stop being so. We should however become stronger in another regard so as not to be put off to the extent of missing out or shunning an opportunity to be of use to others. This of course is an issue I myself struggle with.

Many people in this society don’t give you points for how far you’ve come along from where you’ve started. In the most selfish, shallow sense, many people are only interested in how you affect them currently! “OH I enjoy being around so-and-so much..” “Oh so and so is so creepy to be around.”

The more we follow GOD’S teachings -the less power man has over us. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️ You take for example the power women have over many men. With GOD’S teachings those powers dissolve. It’s a terrible thing to have a woman who has no godly inclination have power over us. They tend to be very inconsiderate, cold, and self-serving ->ruthless if need be!

How many different things; and how many different kinds of things are you a slave to? Make a list to include various categories.

Don’t you just love it when we human beings are in the middle of a panic. Whether it be for food or shelter or safety…. And one person sits back calmly because these things mean so very little.

GOD gave us enough on this planet to survive off of and even enjoy. Not enough to make massive profits off of. Taps counter with stick-Anyone disagree?

You are the gratify yourself through your own attitudes and actions or you sacrifice, you give up these things and gain gratification through others.

You know the philosophy of leaving people better for having been in your presence under all conditions is something…

People can seem to get a handle on their issues. We keep running into the same things among our own kind year after year, generation after generation, century after century, millennium after millennium. Unlike GOD -after a time, we human-beings begin to show the affects of life ~and quite often are none-the-better for it. Life makes us make life that much more unbearable for one another 💔 😪 🙃 😞 😕 😢 💔

What do I know? The kind of feelings that precede Enlightenment… It’s like the kind of pain that precedes the degree of muscle-growth only seen in body-builders!

One man looking to please another.-but not GOD!

Just as your body will resist growing beyond the next level. So too will a man’s character as he attempts to alter it.

Whatever evil does we feel like we have to either match it or counter it -in the name of survival. If survival is our reason for combating evil… and not good, or justice… Without the principles of good as our driving force… 😔🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️ Too, if hate or anger or revenge, or monetary gain are our motivation… 😔🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️

Humility -thinking of our own defects rather than others.

A lot of people don’t get it: You’re giving them the best possible piece of information they could perhaps ever here and they just don’t get it.

You be the one to make things go smooth they’re not waiting for the other people around you to do so. You’ll be the one who’s got it going on, you be the adult, you be the sharp is tool in the shed… You be the thinker!

Don’t just admit you’re not perfect -IMPROVE!

There are people out in the world, sure they are accepted and sure they are successful… but they’re locked in to a system of social norms that don’t allow them to express themselves at depth openly. Conversely, many of us who are able to express ourselves openly are shunned by society and therefore we are not accepted and we are not as successful as we might be or might like to be..

Don’t you just hate it when you think back… and wish you had spent those years practicing…. each day…. and the rewards you would now be….

C.P.T.I “I can quit, I just don’t want to.” Contempt…

*****“What is the most significant thing about that [topic] with regard to you?”

ANA -DON’T HANG AROUND PEOPLE WHO BRING YOU DOWN SPIRITUALLY. It’s not intolerance; it’d not haughtiness! It’s self-preservation on a spiritual level. We have to gain in strength [what we can be in the presence of and not be torn down].

Most people in your periphery don’t care about you, or me one way or the other. So given that fact, act accordingly.

In AA we’re supposed to share our experience, strength, and hope… “I” and “me”? But I just read that it was unlikely that he wrote “The St. Francis Prayer” because of the “i” and “me” references.

Since we’re powerless over the vast majority of the things around us, and a great many things in us, the chances are that any thought or focus or concern we have falls into this category -and therefore should be left to GOD. GOD is the king of everything that we are powerless over.

What’s the number one reason people can’t get along? What’s the number one reason people have conflicts between each other? Well if I was going to venture a guess I would say that a big part of it has nothing to do with the actual issues we have with many people. They just happen to be around when we’ve had enough. The 2nd reason. .

One approach to world peace that’s guaranteed to work: DO NOT react no matter how [even if you are] justified you are in doing so.

A lot of people like that cool in their relationships. Like they’re both playing some role in a movie. Just be yourself. If that’s not charming enough for stimulating enough…

I read somewhere that William Shakespeare stole much of his work from someone else. Is there any lie that isn’t being made out to be the truth? Is there any truth that isn’t made out to be a lie? Humanity just keeps trampling over everything. These new generations don’t know what from what. People even take shots at The Bible. People have more faith in something from men than they do something from GOD!

I have been pushing the boundaries on paper and in meetings of alcohol it’s anonymous for 32 years. That’s how one improves. In 32 years is a long time to have the pedal of the metal. Giving a 110%. Anyone who can keep the pedal of the metal for 32 years is bound to reach astronomical heights -and lows!

If you want to gain a big chunk of understanding about typical people, those around you…. Talk to people in positions of power. They’ll tell you what people are really like. Talk to a college professor about his female students and what they’re willing to do to get a grade. Talk to the CEO of a company about what his employees are willing to do to get a raise or promotion. Talk to a doctor about his staff or the nurses under him.

Why do so many people in this country think money is the answer? Because unfortunately more than anything else on the planet besides brute force and threat of life and limb, money even more so than love gets people to do things. Well why is it so important that we get people to do things? Isn’t it more important that we serve God and accept what he offers in return?

Half the people in the world at any given time are either unhappy or have something eating at them. Half of those people have a legitimate reason and the other half do not. Anyways my point is this is a big part of the reason why there is so much trouble between one another in the world. Either a bad mood in general or resentment towards one another. And these are constants.

The people here in LC are a stiff necked people. Why do things never change in a community of people who are stiff necked? By the way Jesus called the Jews a stiff necked people! Why do things never change in a community of stiff necked people? Because they don’t listen! Because you can’t tell them anything. Every time I tell somebody in this town somethey get on the defensive and then the offensive. They do not want to hear anything from anyone and that is why they never grow. Yesterday walking across the parking lot at Walmart 1st a woman comes zoom in by as I’m attempting to cross the parking lot aisle. Then a man comes rushing buy while I’m already in the process of crossing. Do they stop to let me pass-nooooo. They just put on the gas, move a little bit to their left and keep on common. I finally tapped the back of a guy’s tail light as he was passing because I was so frustrated with this behavior. What does he do? He jumps out of the car and starts yelling at me as if he were the victim. That’s one thing stiff next week or a good app, for tending to be the victim when they’re the perpetrator. The place I live in strangely enough is an excellent example of what the world is self will eventually become. A population of cold, unaccountable people -filled with anger. A lot of these people’s reason for being angry isn’t because they’re homeless or can’t afford even basic medical care or don’t have a decent car to drive. That would be at least somewhat understandable. No these kind of people are p***** off because they everybody else in their neighborhood. It grinds away at them. Less than their boss. Lwss than their brother. These people are straight Avengers of what other people have and who are they are -because they’re better in their souls than they are. I am so tired, everyday of getting when I get from the people in this community. Which ranges from mostly nothing to an occasional gesture that I am unimportant This town is excellent at treating one another like we’re nobody’s. To me it reminds me of those comments that my family used to make when I was a boy. If I have a black man we’ll help the Black man out of the bucket while the Mexican will pull the Mexican back down in it. It’s true this is a very prideful car of a very selfish, very envious calm a very angry people. God gave them a Passion beyond most, but they use it for hate instead of love. I would also like to mention, don’t think that the bottom half of the world that is discontent or angry doesn’t affect the upper half either. How can the world ever change as long as there are people in it who refuse to listen, who refuse to be humbled in the face of constructive criticism?

Just to give you an idea of how man twists things from good to ba The generations that followed World War II decided it wasn’t a good idea to be hitting children. You think their intentions were misguided? Or self serving? What about those changes that came about; with regard to not judging each other? Another misguided choice? Or a choice grounded in sekf once again? If people just go around acting the way they do with no sort of feedback whatsoever. Is it that the sixties and seventies motto “LIVE AND LET LIVE”. Let’s be honest here, are we really talking about not judging people or are we talking about being equals to the point where none of us has a right to say anything about or towards our fellow human being? Whereby we’re not allowed to confront one another, We’re not allowed doing pose our own beliefs on one another. Everybody just gets to live their life the way they wanna live it. Sounds pretty chaotic to me. Not what I am saying may sound extreme I think where these people are coming from is far more subtle. And there might even be a good intention in there somewhere. But society and generations to come cannot evolve properly without input from somewhere. Don’t hit me and don’t tell me what to do. I can just hear adolescence across America. You can’t hit me and you can’t tell me what to do. I knew a young girl with this attitude. It was a sad situation. NOOOOOOOO!!!! NOOOOOOOO!!!! NOOOOOOOO!!!! I used to think, well yeah you can deal with the child without punishing them physically but how many of us know how to do that? Some of these children are pretty strong-willed and even intelligent. And you never wanna hurt a child and you never want to traumatize them. You want to use just enough force to let them know you care about them. Both parents probably don’t have the skill or boundary down packed. Any idiot can look at the state of America today and see what’s happened to our children. Unruly, disrespectful, angry, certainly misguided; listening either to themselves, or their peers mostly. And of course they don’t have the benefit of hindsight. Like some of us do. But try telling them that. The pockets of people here and there in my generation who prematurely went our own way because there really wasn’t anyone around to show us otherwise… Well that scenario has mushroomed. The idea that satan is having his way -MAKES ME SICK! The idea that man is so easily manipulated -makes me angry as all h***! Not judging people [we have to be accountable for the direction our species is going in at all times -We talk about social norms… well isn’t keeping each other in line part of a social norm? The very foundation of social norms? KEEPING THINGS NORMAL -oh I forgot “there is no normal” came out in the nineties as well]. Not being able to punish our children adequately. Leaving them at home without either paren’t to greet them when they get home -for hours to come in certain instances. All a mistake! God says you can tell a tree by the fruit of bears. Shouldn’t we be able to tell a good decision from a bad decision by the consequences or the results? That used to be the case. Before man twisted things so badly that that doesn’t even seem to hold true anymore. You have no idea just how f***** u* man can become. But it’s coming!

You know there are people who drowned kittens and puppies, an entire litter and maybe keep one.

There is so much diversity in the world and God is open to so much of it. We cannot even begin to comprehend how open God is because if we were subject to the many variances out there in the world, most of us couldn’t begin to be open to them all. And yet God is labeled by many a man has judgemental and closed. Do you really think that man can be more open than God? Only when it comes to sin and misguided thinking.

Some things we purposefully attempt out of side out of mind. Some things fate seems to have a hand in. The way we live in this country and the things we are shut out from, is that fate or man’s doing?There are so many things in the world we should as Americans be ever mindful of and yet we live in a land of illusion in many ways.

Have you figured out what the world is yet? Bit confusing not only with regard to the many personality types out there, as well as character types, but the extreme opinions based on the wide latitude of experiences and perceptions that exists out there. It’s amazing how many people in the world think it’s wonderful and how many people in the world think it’s s***. And how many people are willing to argue their position. The bottom line is that the world is not a nice place. If you have a person with mixed character -are they good or bad? There are a lot of people in prison that have good traits. But would you say they’re good people? Humanity taken as a whole has serious flaws. Tendencies towards harming and hurting one another are not uncommon. Neither are such things as exploitation of and indifference to the weak and the suffering! Bullies don’t go after the strongest they go after the weakest. We would do well to remember that with regard to governments and corporations as well. Do you see the United States for example running over Russia and China? Much as they would like to. Do you see them running rampant over the rich and famous as much as they would deserve it in certain instances? Too much cost and too much resistance. These are realities that seldom are challenged.

We know through past history that man can be raised many different ways and be affected by it for the rest of his life. What we don’t know yet is just how much variance man can be open to. Nor how much variance man himself can acquire/attain/decend to, and then transmit to a human-being at any given interval of development.

A troublemaker isn’t just someone who starts trouble, it’s someone who finishes it. People who are not troublemakers try to bring peace to the situation. This is a big problem in the world end in this country. A bunch of people who will tell you they’re not troublemakers but they got anger and hate just bubbling below the service ready to unleash.

Is it really that big difference between a person who initiate hate and fear and anger on other people or dumps it into the situation in response to someone else? Is one trigger any better or worse than another?

If God knows everything about us and still fails to reach us, then what can we expect from one another? I’m tired that’s why I’m not capitalizing God and putting it in bold yesterday and today. A little shaken up I guess by yesterday’s events in the parking lot at Walmart. Anyways, man has one advantage over God with regard to his fellows; Man is willing and capable of doing things God will not do.

The highest order of species in the universe probably wouldn’t kill its own kind in order to survive. Which is why that species probably wouldn’t have any crime. I don’t know if that makes sense but that’s what came to me at the end.

THE PROBLEMS GET SMALLER; AND WE GET STRINGER ><THE PROBLEMS GET BIGGER; AND WE GET WEAKER. IN ADDICTION AND IN RECOVERY.

For many, life is about how much you can take!

You’ve ever seen what a dispute looks like between 2 adults with the mentality of a child? You’ve ever seen what it dispute looks like between 2 adults with the mentality of a egomaniac? You’ve ever seen what a dispute looks like between 2 adults with a mentality that is humble, mature, sound-minded…?

Some of the cheapest stuff to produce man charges some of the highest prices -figure that 1 out.

*****Not everyone shows up to Alcoholics Anonymous day after day year after year because they love it. They ateast have the sense to know they need it.

*****Reasons people get drunk or walk out on Alcoholics Anonymous.

-People in the program heard or p***** them off.

-God doesn’t answer their prayers.

-People die on us.

-People betray us.

-People change their feelings about us.

There’s evenly matched wars and there’s grossly mismatched wars throughout history.

My family would do everything in their power to protect their children but they wouldn’t do much of anything, let alone everything in their power to protect me.

A lot of very bad things happen in life based on choice. Some people will actually tell you they didn’t have a choice They will act without thinking and therefore.. Act as if they had no choice. When people for example go out and get drunk or relapse on drugs after being in recovery for a time, it’s a choice they make. Sometimes we’re powerless because we haven’t prepared ourselves adequately for the day ahead. But what preceded that was a choice.

You randomly throw a 1000 people together on an island from different parts of the country or world who have no business joining together as couples, and some of them will somehow manage, and others will be left out or choose to remain single.

There are hundreds of millions of people out there in the world hurting -ONE SHOULD NEVER STRAY FAR FROM THAT FACT. ALONG WITH TRUSTING IN GOD AND REMAINING FOREVER GRATEFUL TO HIM.

Think of all the [little] animals who suffer because of man.

There’s not always a way out on one plane, but there’s always a way out on another. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️

It’s people that often miss things but never GOD. People either miss things or do things out of being misguided [in their thinking, intentions…]. GOD never misses anything. HE does what HE does and HE doesn’t do what HE doesn’t do for the highest purpose[s]!

GOD’S greatest joy and sorrows can be found in our intentions.

I’m getting a real lesson and keeping my mouth shut and just letting things be whatever they’re going to be no matter how unfair or unjust or painful or personal they may FEEL.

Alcoholics Anonymous is a perfect program filled with imperfect people.

If you don’t have any values at least try to be picky.

When a person becomes a giver it’s because they sense they have something to give. It’s because they feel safe enough and satisfied enough to begin to let go of some of what they’ve got. Many non-givers feel afraid and empty. So a person has to feel fulfilled enough to be able to let go of some of what they have. It’s something of a science I suppose.

The more a person has that you want the less you have to work and grow as a human being. The less you have to give or give up. Seems to be the way human nature works unfortunately. Look at these guys with all this money. Who do thet choose as a partner? It’s almost like a cookie dough cutter.

Some people just want to be treated normally [with basic respect, manners…]. Some people want to be treated beyond normal. And when dealing with some people, wanting to be treated normally is too high an expectation.

It takes a special man to [choose to] walk alone with GOD.

These are the types of awakenings I live in breathe for: How funny 🤔 we live in a country with people fighting for equality, many of whom either loathe or are scared to death of the notion of class or financial equality. When the government starts [en]forcing equality, on a moral level[?], how is that different from forcing equality on a class or financial level [communism]? And don’t give me that garbage about what the people want. You think more people in this country want gay equality than do people who want financial equality? Nothing’s changing on the financial front. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️

Federal Reserve data indicates that as of Q4 2021, the top 1% of households in the United States held 32.3% of the country’s wealth, while the bottom 50% held 2.6%. In recent decades, wealth inequality has substantially increased in the United States. * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_United_States#:~:text=Federal%20Reserve%20data%20indicates%20that,increased%20in%20the%20United%20States

*Man tends to effect change where he puts his mind to. And when two forces oppose each other come into conflict, the smarter, and then more powerful tend to emerge victorious -especially when your opposition has been neutralized. So, if the gap in wealth is increasing, it is happening through a hell of a lot of conscious effort YOU CAN COUNT ON THAT!

There are a lot of people in this day and age that don’t know nothin’. There are a lot of people who know a lot and yet know nothin’. And these 2 groups make up what % of the population?

Given the world’s history or track record: Why wouldn’t good and decent human beings spend night-after-night alone while not so nice human beings are in relationships having sex…? Albeit one day the person next to them wakes up and decides they don’t like that person -at all!

Every race is characterized by its own unique set of traits in greater or lesser degrees. I would sure like some scientific hard data on certainerases in this country Both the good and the bad.

Hanging around certain people, normal can get pretty weird.

Most people in power have a number of weaknesses or vulnerabilities. Do we really want leaders like that?

If you place limitations on your patience, life will eventually push you past it.Some people take the magnifying glass and turn it to which ever side suits them.

How can we address an issue successfully when we can’t see it for what it is -Alcoholics are excellent at this game.

If JESUS needed 5, 6, 7, 8 hours praying and meditating with GOD…. WHAT OF US WHO ARE WEAKER?

One of THE 7 GREAT MYSTERIES OF HUMANITY: Disliking someone you don’t even know or have never met!

There’s no guarantee in life but you can tip the odds in your favor.

There’s not enough jobs for everyone but there’s always a job available. How can you expect NO CRIME if there’s not enough jobs for everyone.

The system always favors itself -a very human quality.

I don’t want to be the example GOD chose me for. Or I chose before I got here. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️

If only you would drop your standards down where… -VOILA!

There’s a lot of people we won’t have anything to do with. And there’s a lot of people we do choose to have something to do with who we eventually don’t really want anything to do with anymore. So where does this leave/lead the typical human being? Cynical! More alone than we’d like… Part of the problem is that we’re too arrogant. And the other part of the problem is that other people are too arrogant.

You gotta figure a lot of private investigators tend to lose faith in humanity. Cops too

We judge a lot of people on what they have done rather than what they would do. What you would do speaks to your character. And character is what it’s about when it comes to holding various positions. More so than skill set in many cases. The fact of the matter is this, that between a person’s history which is either incomplete or hidden or twisted because that’s what we human beings do in order to thrive and survive, we twist, we hide, we act… And then with regard to what we would do in any given situation… Most of us hope that where we get a passing-grade, written all over the front page; while where we would fail we hope to never see the light of day. Hope we are never get put in that position to fail in front of all to see. Everything gets colluded to our advantage. But when it’s not advantageous to others then they’re trying to collude things to their advantage

Between 99.9999% and 100% of people watching the news have no clue as to whether or not what people are saying are telling the truth or lying. But I do find it very interesting that in certain situations some people do know the truth and they’re sitting there watching their friend or family member or partner or boss or employee flat out why from time to time. And the people telling the stories on the news are often familiar with the fact that no 1 or 99.999% of people don’t know the truth. This is the kind of f***** u* world we live in

Some people are comfortable when they are around themselves but not around other people.

The truth seldom gets out anymore in its entirety. Between the individuals themselves trying to cover it up, the lawyer is trying to cover it up, the judges in certain instances trying to cover it up… The 1st thing a lot of people see when a powerful person is caught in the Ringer is opportunity. We know the person in the jam doesn’t want to choose to come out then comes the question what are you willing to do to ensure getting your wish? Then of course there’s the person in a position to Grant them their wish… That’s why it’s always such a problem for people in positions of power that can benefit beyond our wildest dreams…. With some people it’s not a bribe, it’s part of the job lol It’s so hard for the truth to reach the light of day anymore.. But what’s described above is nothing new There are several things circling around the truth and reasons for hiding it. The avoidance of public shame and embarrassment. The avoidance of consequences. Opportunities for power and money. These things always come into play we’re truth… can be found.

Extremely bright or shady individual can find a way to land on their feet come to even profit in either scenario. In opposing scenarios.

What happens 98% of the time with people in positions of power elected to help other people is that they always put themselves firather than the 10 or 100 or 1000 or a million they are being paid to serve and protect. If people would start doing what they’re supposed to be doing, what they are paid to do by the millions in society… Things would improve at least 50% right off the bat. People can’t help putting themselves 1st or skimming a little off the top. It says in The Bible that man is terrible when it comes to waving opportunity under his nose. And life plays that out every day in fact. It’s so easy for a man to twist his own immoral and unethical behaviors with just a minor twist. It’s so easy to say just this once. It’s so easy to say who will know. Whatever lies we engage in; they follow us everywhere we go until the truth is told. We and our families carry that burden until it is made right. That’s the universe talking not the man. Or that Ajo justification, I’ve worked for it… I deserve it….

There’s an old saying in Alcoholics Anonymous com you can’t fix an alcoholic mind with an alcoholic mind. You also cannot solve the problems of a community or a nation or a world by putting into office people who are a part of the problem.

Supposedly there’s been a campaign in this country for many decades to address the widespread disparity between classes in this country. And for all the talk and the trouble what do we get? We only find that it’s gotten worse not better. Shame on the people who continue to drive for greater disparity between the masses. And what about the drug problem? Hasn’t there been a campaign in this country for several decades now to address that issue? Isn’t it worse now than ever? And now the masses are joining in and contributing to the problem even though they complain out of the other side of their mouth that they can’t stand these long standing issues.

People who care about us, and are free from I’ll feelings toward us will in fact be there for us in our hour-of-need. If you’re wondering about people who supposedly care for us but who time and time again refuse to be there for us -you can bet there’s some issue there..There’s an issue with them or there’s an issue with you they are carrying… My brother is one such person.

In the myriad of potential scenarios amidst humanity become someone is always going to end up in a different place come a higher place or a lower place from someone else. The structure of our societies is steeped in structures that are the breeding ground for inequality. Sometimes people end up there and have no idea how they got there. Other people lie, cheat, steal, manipulate, bribe, blackmail… or simply work for years to get there.

God’s done his part by gifting me the material but I haven’t done my part with regard to the delivery. My speaking and my demeanor stink.

Money is scared shitless of risk. Love isn’t. On the other hand there’s a lot of things in the world that love cannot buy because so many people do not make love an important part of their make up. So it’s money that is required to get things done -or perish. To take your pick. Love conquers all but only when people operate from it. Money can solve a lot of problems but it pales in the face of risk. So a lot of people aren’t allowed to have it when they need it. What a mess both ways.

A person has a right to protect their spirit. In an alcoholic and particular must protect their mind.

If a 30 year old man has developmental issues, Let’s say hes emotionally 13 or 14 years old. And hes attracted to 13-14 year old girls. Is he sick because hes attracted to those girls given his emotional level or is he sick because hes 30 years old and has an emotional level of 13 or 14? Because if the man had an emotional level of 13 or 14, wouldn’t it be normal for someone at that emotional level to be attracted to girls 13 or 14 years old? This is where it would be important to remain unbiased or uninvolved emotionally.

COMPLIMENT OFTEN!

It truly is lonely as one approaches “THE TOP”.

You see these stories online that you can’t resist and when you click on them there’s 30 freaking advertisements linked to them. Every time you hit the next button another ad. Can man do something without trying to get something? When we see individuals act this way in person we want to get as far away from them as we can because all they want is wantedWhen we see individuals act this way in person we want to get as far away from them as we can because all they want is WANT! And yet we’re subject to exactly the same thing day-in-and-day-out from his supposed non entities. But the fact that the matter is these are people who simply want something from us. And no we don’t know them personally. It doesn’t excuse the fact that they too simply won’t want greedily and selfishly in many instances. We should keep that in mind with regard to what’s happening in this country. What we are continually being bombarded by. It’s not love and kindness and uplifting…. It’s selfishness and coldness and taketakes take and a temporary fix -not uplifting at all. Take a bite of this Apple off this tree and you will be… and you will feel… 🍎 🍏 🍎 🍏 🍎 🍏 🍎 🍏 🍎 🍏

*****It may be one day at a time and it may be just for today but realistically, what we do today ensures our recovery for tomorrow. What we fail to do yesterday can jeopardize our recovery today. Ever try falling too far and then running to an AA meeting or calling somebody up in the program hoping you can stay sober in time? That doesn’t work out too well. Sometimes it takes a few days or weeks or months to find relief from that merciless obsession that has resurfaced.

We get stressed out and then we try to find something to counter that feeling. When in reality it’s best not to get stressed out and you don’t have to go find something to counter that feeling.

*****All we have to do is what they taught us. Go to a meeting –save your life. Purchase and read the big book of Alcoholics Anonymous –save your life. Get a sponsor –save your life. Sit quietly in your room all alone and listen -save your life.

A lot of people in Alcoholics Anonymous immediately since they are being told what to do or what to believe. If you can set aside that defiance for 5 minutes and just listen-it might just save your life.

Once you walk our your feonr door it’s all about 💰 money! Being a GOOD SAMARITAN is a personal choice -not a privilege. AND many of us already have numerous excuses in wait to counter that notion. Many don’t even care for each other.

If I overstep others boundaries in the city I live in they will let me know. If they overstep mine and I let them know, THEY WILL LET ME KNOW…!!!!

Alcoholics always want to take center-stage, and magnify everything out of proportion. They either use the magnifying glass one way or the other. Making them bigger than they are or smaller than they are!

Alot of times, we don’t dare take out our anger on the people who hurt us -so we take it out on people who don’t deserve it.

How far will you ascend in any given area before you die?

Your loved ones, there will come a day when your “goodbye” will be the last -most of us of course won’t realize it.

Because you’re afraid, you dral with it by trying to make me afraid -like the guy in the Walmart parking lot who jumped out of his car after I tagged his back fender for cutting me off while walking across the aisle.

When people come into recovery -they have to deal with problems within, and in the world.

[Focusing on] TRUSTING IN GOD and BEING GRATEFUL TO HIM pushes aside alot of those things in life that tend to bring about fear and… what I’m not getting out of life [the American way]! These two things wash away the residual fallout associated with our own limitations, and the limitations common in life.

*****ZIA -Live Clean

Stress comes from man -it only makes sense [DUMB] to look to man to counter that feeling.

Look at corporations in this country and look at the country itself and what they are like when starting out and then what they are like when they reach the pinnacle of power They’re very different. I mean they’re very different than where they start out and where they end up in their attitude and conduct. In certain instances perhaps not so much the conduct but definitely the attitude.

90% of the world that any given time is not 100%. What does this mean? Well what it means is it we’re not going to be fully prepared at any given time. And how do human beings happen to respond when they are not prepared? That’s right-you got it!

Accepting what other people doing society is one thing trying to encourage it as another.

Trying to deal with angry people when I don’t have the anger I used to is something of a challenge.

When you absorb somebody else’s abuse instead of retaliating something inside of you it’s very different.

The 2 flaws in our attitude part of that we think God doesn’t care and that we think we know better than God and I’ll even throw in a 3rd, that we think we can see the future better than God. The above writing is based upon the hundreds of millions of people who have prayed to God and not have their prayers answered.

You look at some of the people WE get involved with… hmmmm 🤔 I mean intimately, sexually… some of the most unattractive… unappealing… people are capable of anything they’re capable of! IF IT CAN BE DONE -SOMEONE WILL PROBABLY DO IT -EVENTUALLY!

*****People don’t pay you because they like you: In many instances they don’t even pay you because you’ve earned it. They pay you because you’re making them even more money.

Man historically has only been able to figure things out by creating them and watching the alchemy the effect. He has not always been a great predictor.

Some people are like a “MÖBIUS-STRIP” -and more! Only they are not taped and twisted [Or are they? Or have they been?]. Some things there isn’t a solution per se’?

I think I’m like Darth-Vader? Tony Stark?

They say “we can change, but we can’t change the world” ~sounds like an unsolvable math problem. A mobius-tape?

What happens when two [extraordinary] people meet and one is “super-xxxxx” and the other is “super-yyyyyy”?

Your first mistake is thinking I’m targeting any particular type or group [of females]. I go with what presents itself -sorta.

The Science of CARING: What is more complex the physical universe or the spiritual [how does understanding the universe (in and of itself) make “it” better -you can’t improve on perfection (but you can gain advantages over others as your understanding expands -but never over the universe itself can you?)]? People wonder what the universe is [GOD’S “MASTERPIECE” -and the lack of that understanding, or refusal to acknowledge/concede -THIS IS WHERE MAN LOSES HIS WAY -AND HIS HUMILITY; every time (this is why man evolves in his understanding of the universe at a snails pace -having been shown the the true meaning behind the universe from the very beginning, he forgets, or he denies this great fact, justifying his own need to make the universe his own private playground, or battle ground)]? In their smallness and their vast ignorance -some men are compelled to alter one reality, and as a consequence, the other [they just can’t stand feeling small -insignificant -vulnerable -weak -disadvantaged (knowledge is power)]. Some people spend their lives trying to understand the universe; Some of the most intelligent people in it. I think it’s more important to be a positive force in it -don’t you [to know this is to know all you need to know or understand about the universe -from that perspective (the other is a LOVING GOD created it*)]? It’s better to move the universe than to merely be able to understand bits and pieces of it. Isn’t it better to work with the universe rather than [merely within] it?

*Is there any doubt about that? Surely wickedness would not allow beauty to exist which only lends further creedence to GOD’S GLORY when you use the aforementioned for why evil exists! satan would never allow beauty [and goodness] to exist in the world; and since satan is the complete antithesis of CHRIST-GOD, it only make sense that a benign, loving GOD would in fact allow evil too to exist -rather than snuff it out completely, permanently for self-serving reasons. Another question 🤔 “Would satan snuff out all good, and beauty? What purpose would his very existence then serve -the battle won…? Is it about the victory? Or the battle? And if man continued to repopulate; having won the battle, having lost the element of surprise [deceit], what then?”

Greg is right about one thing, I’ve learned to act based on what makes sense, NOT NECESSARILY WHAT MAKES SENSE TO OTHERS. We either learn to act in the universe or we learn [how] to act among men*. If we want to reap what the universe has to offer, we act according to the former. If we want to report what man has to offer, we act according to the latter. I appear to be reaping from the universe but not from humanity. ->Treating women as human beings is universal -but it’s not very human (not necessarily wise either -if you want in). Women expect to be treated like women. It lets them know where a man is coming from. Without some sort of compass, or rather some kind of North Star on the horizon, women will simply act lost in most cases. When a woman is in a man’s presence who gives them no hint of guidance in-so-far-as where they’re coming from… Women essentially do nothing. Or in their bewilderment (lack of sufficient data) -they scat(ter).

*Actually we are born with an innate understanding of our role in the universe. This is a constant. It’s when we get among human beings that we must learn to train ourselves how to act. This is not a constant. We have to act this way for this person in this way for that person. Of course, once we have mastered the various “types” more-or-less, things seldom change; it’s boring repetition, because most people want the same things -foolishly, selfishly, and with very similar voracity I might add!

You can tell a society is this* when they leisurely indulge in excess and are being charged exorbitant prices and are willing to pay [without a fight; thus failing to keep the man-predator in check]. THAT’S NO GOOD! *LACK OF DEPTH!

Highly intelligent people discover reality well unintelligent people can only imagine it at best. Watching the movie limitless this is what came up along with…. If you could be the most intelligent person on the planet what would be the most intelligent thing you could think of doing? If you were the most intelligent person on the planet what would be the most intelligent thing to do? Hint: Even some of the most unintelligent people on the planet know the answer to this.

“I’m only gonna be here for a few years just like the rest of you -I realky wanna make those years count!”

When you see somebody doing something differently from you but it works where, your way doesn’t, what do you do?

Many people excel through hard work and conscious effort. Now just imagine those people who have a working part of their makeup with this characteristic. they’re doing it all they’re doing it all the time and with no lapses in drive or motivation, only fatigue or distraction.

Just about everyday I come to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting I BRING 110%! And why wouldn’t I? You got to figure in the back of my head the fact that my parents got killed by this disease, our family was decimated -is always rolling around back there somewhere.

Doing things according to man brings outcomes that are too boring, and too predictable. On the other hand ✋ This too eventually becomes predictable. But it never seems to grow [quite as] old.

Why does it take money to see the beauty that is all around this world?

It can be unnerving for some people being around a person who when speaking does so with 110% conviction.

Women want to live. You’ve heard stories of what women will do in order to avoid parish. Women almost inherently fall in love with a man every time who makes them feel alive. I guess this is the cousin attribute to the biting of the Apple on the tree of knowledge.

We don’t like the idea of people in our personal life thinking only of themselves. Seemingly not caring much about us at all*. So why do we tolerate it in our dealings with the world? Is it really any less offensive or inappropriate? It shouldn’t be.

*On a side note, how many people enter into relationships with this attitude or inability. Everything we do that involves one another should be personal.

Man often abandons ship with regard to his career, his personal life… When it either suits them or when it benefits him to do so. But not GOD! Marriage is one of the few areas it is where godconsists we toe-the-line. And even then we treat it like everything else because there really isn’t anything we human beings are loyal to, except maybe, maybe our selves at times! You’re probably thinking as apparent that this doesn’t apply. But we both know that even parents betray their children in one way or another; it is not a rare phenomenon given the scope of this inference.

The government does a lot of things that are wrong -but perfectly legal. And the people who are the victims don’t give a d*** that it’s legal when they know it’s wrong and done just. And that’s when a certain percentage retaliate. When are we ever gonna put an end of the majority of this retaliation by doing what’s right and not merely what’s legal.

If you look at the way the world was made initially, anyone could recognize that God is a good God. If you look at how man maedged to have himself removed from paradise and then take note of what he has done to his surroundings once outside of the gates… One might argue the 1st point is a fairy tale but it no one can argue the 2nd point is a fairy tale. Man has damaged this planet immensely. Either in the name of progress, carelessness, or greed! Man has been a lousy steward. There’s for the rest of us. We either participated at the end of all this by supplying “the demand side” in all all of this, or by doing nothing at all to intervene! Tell me what there is good to be said in all of this?

Do people notice people who gain quickly spiritually? Of course they do. People seem to notice even more so when somebody is climbing the financial ladder very quickly. There’s only a very narrow margin which allows people to make money very rapidly in large sums. And specific people are with the qualifications to capitalize. As for the rest of us; the means we would have to employ (given our limitations, life’s obstacles [natural and man-made], our own self-imposed limits…) in order to bring about a similar result -would likely be considered illegal. People start making a s*** load of money even legally and immediately they’re investigated*. But if somebody becomes a spiritual giant in a matter of a short period of time…? HUMAN-BEINGS.

*Losing is not only “the norm” (expected), it doesn’t bring about envy (so whether consciously, or unconsciously -it is preferred by those around us looking on). And oftentimes by those cursed with self-sabotage themselves.

Explain to me why most people cannot succeed when these examples are right in front of their very eyes. It’s not a lack of knowledge or a lack of opportunity to witness what works that is at issue. Because, if man did not have that “x-factor” going on, the rest of humanity who has found success would have to keep under lock and key there secret. This not would not only be extremely inconvenient, it would probably be impossible. So there has to be a way to avoid having to hide The Secret to success while at the same time avoiding all are even the majority of humanity being a threat in so far as becoming adept at the same or even a surpassing level. So what are these factors? You know what they are-you live within every day within yourself while you scratch your head wondering why you can’t get ahead like the next guy. That is to say, like that guy that’s 1 in a 1000 or 1 in 10000 or 1 in a million. You know why that book you bought or that program you bought that’s supposed to make you millions hasn’t worked.

With regard to attracting women and making friends you could say the issue is me. All I have to do is be willing to give them what they need, what makes sense to them, what makes them feel comfortable, WHAT PLEASES THEM… AND I’M IN! Humans seldom reach [very far] beyond the basic borders of their own self-interests -Anything beyond them would be considered character.

If you were going to base your recovery on the way you feel most of the time… Good luck with staying sober. Isn’t that why we got drunk? Because of the way it made us feel. How long could you be around a person who rubs you the wrong way? On the job for example? How long before you start looking for a way to not have these people in your presence? And if you cannot find that way, how long before you start retaliating? Is it also safe to say that in a situation like this it is highly unlikely that you will respond with even greater kindness and respect for this individual in spite of what your emotions are relying to you? How much value does a typical person in this country place on their own feelings? The answer is a h*** of a lot [it’s probably the greatest determinant]. The answer is in most cases -a lot more than principles -which would be the better path to lead with. The world would be a much better place with principles as opposed to feelings being the primary mover of humanity.

Once upon a time people didn’t need corporate America. It was a very nice convenience. But no it’s not. The addictive model from the viewpoint of the dealer is that if you can provide a product people need-sheer heaven. All kinds of bonuses come along with that scenario.

If you could remember every single thing and keep it in the forefront of your mind that you had ever been exposed 2 throughout your lifetime, Imagine what would wife be like? The problem with many people is they learn and then they unlearn, they learn and then they unlearn… That’s why we see very few mental giants about us. SURPRISE SURPRISE -WHEN THINGS ARE TRULY GOOD, THEY SELDOM STAY THAT WAY:

1)Man’s need for change -even when it’s already perfect.

2)Man’s need to take anything and turn it to his own individual advantage. The economy, progress, capitalism….

That’s what’s happening in this country. It’s strange being able to see what is happening to your fellow human-beings -when they’re oblivious!

Look at what happens to the person who wins the lottery. People start contacting them to tell them how to spend their money. Friends you never knew you had short but your door step. And what about all the people who also bought a lottery ticket that week? In one way or another ridiculous amount of human beings are on this band-wagon. We all want yours or we’re trying to get our own. Or one and the same. The vast majority of us are far too affected by 💰!

How do you know the information you’ve read about is accurate, let alone true?

It’s my understanding that some of the most intelligent people to have ever existed do not engage in intimate relationships. Or you could say that after having tasted one, or two….

So do we have a rating on eye-color and skin-color? As far as attractiveness goes? Is there a particular color that is thought of as most appeeling or envied? And if there is in fact an answith regard to a particular color, that polices more about humanity than it does about the individuals at the ❤ 💙 💜 of the matter.

Perhaps one of the most important skills a person could seek to encourage in themselves is to be able to process large amounts of data very quickly. Of course being able to determine what’s most important and what isn’t is probably just as important. But none of this is necessary for the most important things. But it is for the secondary in tertiary things I suppose. It is for what some might consider the least important things I suppose.

It’s one thing to have been through alot -but when one also has a heightened awareness during each event… 🤷‍♀️🤔🤷‍♂️

A mind that absorbs versus a mind that doesn’t absorb versus a mind that rejects.

Sometimes it’s difficult for me to imagine these writings are so precise in their expression. It feels perhaps more likely that the universe is so vast, and all -encompassing that anything thrown out their will somehow contain relevants, contain truth. BUT THEN AGAIN -I DON’T THINK SO. SOMETHING INCREDIBLE IS WHISPERING TO MY SOUL! Not everyone can do this; can replicate or produce this extraordinary experience! Not anyone in fact???

Some of the most intelligent people who have ever lived feel it is either wise to believe that there is a God or believes that there is overwhelming evidence that there is a GOD.

We know what a woman should look for in the man but given their limitations and their scared perceptions based on various experiences and even further skewed perception as a result.. What do most women really look for or settle for or feel they actually deserve from a man? And how much of that is on them and how much of it is based upon what 1 simply must settle for?

Imagine not being very sensitive and how much you can overlook in your personal relationships. Sounds like a pretty good deal yes? But is it? Imagine never really feeling the need to argue in your relationships? And what of passion?

The more people in this country who have to accept more and more as absent from their basic needs growing up. Think of all that anger accumulating in society. And when you do grow up, you have to realize that American dream that your parents and grandparents with basic card work and commitment were able to realize, now requires a monumental effort of such a magnitude, and to such a degree of 😩 stress, that you neither have the time, the, or the good cheer to enjoy that which you have worked so hard for. MORE ANGER!!!!!!

You know you can make it to the top in this society without using hardly any of GOD’S principles. Well, what I mean to say is satan uses GOD’S principles too…

In order to have a relationship, in certain cases both people would have to change. But you might be surprised at how many only require one person to change.

This might be a shot in the dark but people who get preferential treatment don’t feel so angry about other people getting preferential treatment. There are a lot of people who don’t get preferential treatment who are not very happy

When we’re young all we can do is live out our dreams through the words coming out of our mouths. After all, what do most of us really know about true love in our teens?

Somebody usually in a relationship doesn’t feel as strongly as the other.

What’s the difference between a man cheating on his wife with a woman he met in a bar and a woman cheating on her husband with a man who happens to be a rock star?

Everybody has a price to pay for the wages of sin on this planet.

We get so angry about the things that might have been, but we never think about the fact that if we had gotten our wish they wouldn’t have turned out the way we would have wanted them to be. GOD quite often doesn’t grant us our greatest hopes and dreams because HE knows they will never turn out or even end the way we dream they would-man is a great dreamer while GOD is a great FATHER.

If you knew what people experienced in their lives to bring them to the place where they are today -you would feel compassion for them and not hate or resentment.🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️

Why wouldn’t a man or woman be a conflicted creature when so much of what he or she makes a part of their lives is in conflict with GOD and what HE stands for!

Fear of GOD and GRATITUDE toward GOD! Trust in GOD and be content and grateful for what HE has given -and 98% of your demons will vanish.

There’s few things that irk me more than a man screwing over a good, faithful wife! 😔

LOVE: How can you claim to love someone when you’re not the least bit willing to go out of your way for them? This is my family. Selfish in the extreme -even narcissistic.

My grandmother used to tell me “Rick loves Rick”. But nothing could have been further from the truth. I was trying to survive. But at the same time was continually being conditioned to believe that wife for other people would be much better off without me around. That and a considerable lack of self-love as an example around me. With all this going on… 🤷‍♂️

Can a person hate themselves and love others? With us human beings anything’s possible. Anything except peace on Earth.

I saw on a movie once where a man used a woman sexually and then discarded her. He then confessed to her about that and all the lies he told her leading up to it. She told him you only shame yourself. She was hurt not bitter. How many of us can take a real lesson from that young girl? How many of us take on rage and other toxic emotions when somebody else does us wrong? Should we suffer because somebody else acts wrongly toward us? I think it’s a matter of the quality of suffering, not the quantity, or victim-role. I have a very hard time with not playing the victim. Once you’ve been a victim it’s hard not to be anymore.

RECOGNIZE -before it’s too late!

When a woman is trying to discover whether you are cheating on her or not it is often a sign they still care. For almost 4 years ANA hung in the while I had an affair and refuse to have sex with her. 😔😪 Some people are masters of acceptance. I couldn’t accept what had happened and what was happening. Some of us need people who are not reckless but veryit’s awful and calculating in the decisions they make and how it effects those they love. I can’t say I’ve met nearly enough of those types of people. Not even about my wonderful ANA If only she had -how much more I would have loved her than I already do.

When a person is in a lot of pain or has been injured emotionally or even physically and doesn’t have the adequate or proper solutions in place -what do you suppose they’re going to do? Let’s just think about the physical. How many people are running around out there in the world inadequately inadequately or ill prepared to deal with their emotional pain. The answer is the majority. The question is why? Don’t we care!!!!!

If an alcoholic is out in the woods and gets severely injured physically they can only temporarily dress the wound till they get back to civilization where it can be taken care of properly. That is the same way of dealing with a situation. You don’t get back to civilization and return home with a screwed up dressing.

We like what we like and we don’t like what we don’t like; We’re drawn to what we’re drawn to, and we’re repulsed by what we’re repulsed by -another one of Humanity’s great mysteries -How do we change certain things? How do you go from making an alcoholic love alcohol to hating alcohol? How do you make a woman who is attracted to unhealthy men become unattractive to unhealthy men? Or attracted to healthy men rather!

Is longevity with a person you once loved enough to stay in a relationship? Knowing that that person will be there for you till the day you die and knowing that the world you live in is filled with very few opportunities such as this?

How many people who get sober end up getting divorced?

Some people don’t have the lack of character to play that sort of game. But before they can realize that they’re in that game. And when that tidal wave of shame, of conflict with one’s own set of values and true character comes crashing down on them; They go under –sometimes permanently! I’ve come close a few times. Why I didn’t go under I have no idea. Some situations were enough to push many of these people over I’m referring to above. And I’ve got multiples.

If you accept what you don’t like about your relationships, sometimes those things worked themselves out over time. If you don’t accept them the relationship often ends and you end up without the person you desire most to spend your life with. How many times have I failed to learn this lesson? The one that hurts most is with Ana.

Nothing in the universe can depart from the natural laws within it -without something supernatural [first] taking place. A person cannot dislike something in someone else and have that same character trait within them -and not feel a similar feeling towards themselves without something being terribly wrong within them. Furthermore, you cannot engage in an immoral act with someone else who is also engaging in that act knowingly, wilfully, without feeling some degree of contempt towards that person -unless there is something terribly wrong within yourself. Just look at the movie Control about the group Joy Division.

Humans have that ability to like and dislike something. To want and not want something. We’re immensely attracted to someone outside of our marriage -and yet we loathe at the same time.

How serious is it when somebody hangs themselves? If we were truly United as a species the answer to that would be that everyone mourns equally. But the truth of the matter is that it is hardly anything close to resembling that sadly. “I cannot deny what I see in the world”. Many people seem to feel the world is a cold place. And no colder is it than for a man who still appears able and strong, or who is feared or misunderstood.

Why wouldn’t a woman be afraid to fall in love with a man who is unstable? Or even a man who doesn’t have any stability to offer!

How strong would a person have to be to endure what GOD has enduredoesn’t do it?

How many of us do for GOD out of gratitude? How many of us do forgot to get even more from him? Do for GOD for the joy and sake of doing for GOD!

How can you ever expect GOD to Grant you happiness when you are continuously envious of other people’s happiness?

People who like to HATE -tend to! How else would you explain people who don’t -don’t?

How is it that somebody like Djokovic dreams from the earliest age of being the number one tennis player in the world and then grows up to have the perfect tennis body? How does that work?

How does someone at the earliest stage dream of being a world class singer and end up with a world class voice?

People who begin to lose hope become depressed. People who have lost all hope wilt away or commit suicide. As many people grow older they become depressed or suicidal because they began to lose hope of their dreams which seemed so alive and possible earlier and life even when they weren’t. Many of us were too ignorant to realize what was really going on. But losing hope doesn’t necessarily mean we’ve wisened up in our old age. It just means we stop believing. Don’t stop believing -even to the last day! Hope in and of itself is a good thing just as gratitude is.

In my relationship it was more about what we were doing and what I wasn’t getting out of the relationship rather than getting to know one another. No surprise given my history and problems with so much hurt. I think with the joy of getting to know ourselves better, we enjoy also good nigive me no others better. But when that aspect of our lives is missing, many of us these days, we lose sight of one of the most important features in a relationship -taking an interest in and getting to know one another. At least that’s what I’m thinking. At least that definitely was the case for me where I didn’t take time to know myself I’m just guessing that translates over into relationships as well. But what do I know

People who are nice when they’re young tend to be even nicer when they’re old.

Trust in GOD and for remain grateful to HIM! And all your wants and fears will scatter to the 4 -winds!

We don’t think about things this way but this is how the universe itself doesn’t fact operate. Our lower back is like a puzzle with bitten pieces. If you want those pieces to lock up thand lay for hours each day in a certain position and you will get that. Of course we don’t want this to happen but we’re taking the action that 1 would take if they did. It’s a lot of things in life for that way. Like becoming an Alcoholic. But if you want to practice tripping over a rug in the hall, then put it there where you frequently walk and -eventually you will master the skill at least once –I PROMISE!

I wasn’t such a good person as a young child -And for many years to come after that I suppose. I wasn’t a very happy person after all I had experienced. Nor was I taught the highest morals.

For those of us who were never granted a formal introduction to ourselves early on, the world can really wreak havoc in terms of that ever becoming possible.