http://recoveringfromrecovery.com/forum/index.phpRe: the never ending thread
Postby Avo » Thu Jul 05, 2012 6:45 am
This is a friendly and safe place. It's nice to get to know people without having to wonder who is lurking and ready to pounce on anything that is said. It must be sad and lonely for those that get their jollies doing that to others constantly.
It was pathetic to see how abusive they were to the innocent people that lost a friend. Regardless of how people die, judging without any knowledge other than a few words on the web and harassing the friends of a victim is wisted. That's overstepping, pun intended, and again, do we want what "they" have? I feel strongly that it would never happen at this site. I've "heard" many here, mainly in the chat-room, express their thanks and also have some fun and joke around at times as well.
-- We couldn't leave town for the holiday as planned so the family all watched a movie this evening. During break, when it cooled off, we then all went to watch the fire works (nice we have a huge open park near the house and we walked over). They had about 6 large sprinklers going and it was pretty isolated because everyone else was at the town display. We could see it from the park, which is hilly, so it was perfect! My son and I took Grandma's dog and ran through the sprinklers while the sky was getting lit up. It was fun! 
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Re: the never ending thread
Postby yuk Yuk YUK! » Wed Jul 11, 2012 8:12 pm
Other possible definitions for the Acronym "AA":
1) Assholes Anonymous
2) Automatic Assholes
3) Antisocial Assholes
4) Aggressively Antisocials
5) Assholes Assigned
6) Angry Assholes
7) Arrogant Assholes
Amazing Assholes
9) Altruistic Assholes
10) ADD YOUR OWN!
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Re: the never ending thread
Postby Avo » Thu Jul 12, 2012 6:43 pm
yuk Yuk YUK! wrote:Other possible definitions for the Acronym "AA":
1) Assholes Anonymous
2) Automatic Assholes
3) Antisocial Assholes
4) Aggressively Antisocials
5) Assholes Assigned
6) Angry Assholes
7) Arrogant Assholes
Amazing Assholes
9) Altruistic Assholes
10) ADD YOUR OWN!
We could also switch them around. That works as well:
1) Anonymous Assholes
2) Assholes Automatically
3) Assigned Assholes
24 Hours As an Asshole
Ailing Assholes
Ale or Assholes
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Recovery Discussion
Postby Avo » Fri Jun 15, 2012 7:45 am
Monday: 4pm CST, 5pm EST, 10pm UK. Show up in the general chat area using the tab above. It's very user friendly.
Everyone is welcome. The topic will be about getting/staying clean and sober, or Maintenance regardless of the substance. Cross talk is allowed and suggested and the only rule will be No stepper talk. There won't be a format just chaos, lol. We aren't professionals and are just gathering to offer suggestions and give support.
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Re: Recovery Discussion
Postby Avo » Mon Jun 18, 2012 3:29 am
Reminder:
Recovery Discussion on MONDAY, June 18th.
2pm PST
4pm CST
5pm EST
10pm UK
We'll be using the General Chat above and everyone is welcome.
No Stepper talk please :shock:
Friendly discussion and support. Feel free to cross talk and give suggestions (no have to's or musts).
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Re: Recovery Discussion
Postby Avo » Thu Jul 12, 2012 6:58 pm
Since the first Recovery Discussion went well and a few people have asked, I thought we could give another session a try?
Same as before. No rules, crosstalk is highly recommended!
I'll keep you all update. I was thinking of Monday July 23rd.
More later...
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Re: Recovery Discussion
Postby Avo » Sat Jul 21, 2012 11:41 pm
Hi All,
I propose that we have another discussion about recovery.
Basically an interactive talk between anyone that wants to discuss sobriety. Advice, options, ideas are all welcome. Since mfc has designed the chat area to have several rooms available we will also have the option of splitting up into topics. There is also the option for a couple of people to chat more privately.
On Monday, July 23rd
10 pm London
5 pm Eastern
4 pm Central
2 pm PST
Everyone is welcome. This includes ideas or questions by all, regarldess as to how much clean time a person has. Please just keep in mind that no stepper billshit is welcome.
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Re: Recovery Discussion
Postby Avo » Mon Jul 23, 2012 9:38 pm
20 minutes until recovery discussion. Come to the chat room if your interested!.
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Deprogramming Discussion
Postby btnben » Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:05 pm
A couple of us were talking about having a chat room discussion about "Deprogramming". Are there stages to deprogramming? How long does it take? What are signs that it's still on-going? How do I feel now compared to when I first left? Any tips for the newly cult free? - that kind of thing.
Anyone interested, please add a post.
Proposed date and time : Thursday 26th July
2pm PCT
3pm Mountain
4pm Central
5pm EST
10pm UK
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Re: Deprogramming Discussion
Postby dorak nob » Mon Jul 23, 2012 5:30 pm
i'm in, thanks sounds like a great idea btnben ,it's funny my wife is always asking me to just get over AA and move on, not so easy especially the two meetings a day for a year. sort of brainwashed..
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Re: Deprogramming Discussion
Postby rainbow » Tue Jul 24, 2012 5:45 am
Sounds very interesting. Count me in. I enjoyed the discussion on skype today. I gotta get a mic this week. All I could do was type while everyone was chatting. But it was fun, nonetheless. Nieko & Ben, I'll need to use your names on my "meeting attendance card" this week. I used Avo's & Gunthar's last week. :lol:
It's time to OCCUPY AA.
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Re: Deprogramming Discussion
Postby Avo » Tue Jul 24, 2012 9:10 am
I'd love to join in and it's a possibility that I will. I have an appointment during that time for my son and while I wait, I can participate. I pad or I pod though so my typing will be off kilter. Hopefully I'll have hifi (sp) where I am at.
Ben and I spoke of deprogramming recently and he was very sharp and kind 
in his explanation (too bad some never got to know his good side and believe that he is ConaBen :roll: ). Programming thoughts still linger after many months of leaving and sometimes it takes a conscious thought to catch and correct it.
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Re: Deprogramming Discussion
Postby mfc66 » Tue Jul 24, 2012 11:02 am
Thursday may be difficult for me as well but I do feel it is an important topic. I felt really let down by AA and the way that I had been told to behave as a result of the 12 steps. It really was a bad experience and it takes time to get over it. I think it is a subject that we should revisit often as people will be at different stages of recovering and will face different issues.
It would be good to get a lot of people online together although the time zone differences do make this hard, especially for me!
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