January 11Only Step One, where we made the 100 percent admission we were powerless over alcohol, can be practiced with absolute perfection.TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 68Long before I was able to obtain sobriety in A.A., I knew without a doubt that alcohol was killing me, yet even with this knowledge, I was unable to stop drinking. So, when faced with Step One, I found it easy to admit that I lacked the power to not drink. But was my life unmanageable? Never! Five months after coming into A.A., I was drinking again and wondered why.Later on, back in A.A. and smarting from my wounds, I learned that Step One is the only Step that can be taken 100%. And that the only way to take it 100% is to take 100% of the Step. That was many twenty-four hours ago and I haven't had to take Step One again.
6:00 ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good
24:00 Warrior cultures
37:00 Women coluring their hair
Keeping up appearances
Adam and Eve in Genesis
39:00 Wealthy people are at a disadvantage.
41:00 Socrates
Input/output
42:00 Judgement Day
Universalists
43:00 It is the greatest injustice to treat unequal things equally.
44:00 Non-human animals
45:00 Heaven
46:00 Made in the image of God
50:00 Guilty shameful dogs
51:00 Cats
53:00 Child discipline
57:00 Hitting rock bottom
58:00 Choosing a hill to die on
59:00 God is not illogical.
1:01:00 Prodigal son
1:06:00 Priestly absolute is not fair!
1:07:00 "The grace thing is a mind-bender."
1:08:00 We easily break promises to ourselves.
1:09:00 AA's Higher Power
1:10:00 Someone has to tie us up if we wish to be bound by our promises.
1:11:00 Is there a Higher Power?
1:12:00 The concept of perfect justice is good being rewarded and evil punished, measure for measure with the possibility of redemption.
The Higher Power could be our spouse or boss.
1:13:00 The Mandate of Heaven
1:14:00 Warlords
1:15:00 The British monarch
1:16:00 What if the Gulf Kingdoms became republics?
1:17:00 British monarchs do not enjoy First Amendment rights ie freedom of belief or expression.
1:18:00 Harry in California
1:20:00 The real purpose of the British monarchy
1:21:00 The 1975 Australian Constitutional Crisis
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11:53 AM
@Eolson-helper
#2
You can’t 50% admit powerlessness.
11:58 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#1
Talking to people with different views in a rational and constructive way keeps dementia at bay!
11:59 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#1
Maybe the system won't allow you to retire!!!
12:02 PM
@YawnGod
#3
@OfficialSecularKoranism You need to hone that "keeps dementia at bay line", make it nice and snappy. 👍 Rhyming is always fun.
12:02 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#1
I engaged with Justin Murphy on X.
12:05 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#1
Rites of passage
12:07 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#1
We all need friends.
12:09 PM
@YawnGod
#2
@OfficialSecularKoranism You know, the logic of the addict means that sometimes something illogical can yield results. It's a - times a - = a positive thing 🤔
12:09 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#1
More men need to become married fathers but feminism is a disincentive.
12:10 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#1
AA say people who come to it must have belief in a higher power, or the programme won't work.
12:12 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#1
Whites and coloureds
12:12 PM
@YawnGod
#2
@OfficialSecularKoranism If you aren't an addict, you won't understand. It is, as stated, illogical.
12:12 PM
@YawnGod
#2
@OfficialSecularKoranism Are you an addict? 🤔
12:13 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#1
The Higher Power idea is to make the alcoholic promise the Higher Power not to drink, because the alcoholic will break promises to himself.
12:14 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#1
@YawnGod I despise and denounce any attempt to say God is not logical. I would even go so far as to say it is heresy and blasphemy. God is not a capricious old lady who doesn't know her mind.
12:16 PM
@YawnGod
#2
@OfficialSecularKoranism Pain is a feeling, and feelings...are not logical. I think it's simple to follow, but maybe I am feeling and not thinking 🤔
12:16 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#1
@YawnGod Let us all take a step back and stop worshiping our emotions.
12:17 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#1
Alcoholics are supposed to admit that they are helpless to give up alcohol without a Higher Power.
12:18 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#1
Keeping up appearances
12:18 PM
@YawnGod
#2
I try to convince old ladies I know to go white/grey, and often it works. I'm a charmer 😉
12:19 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#1
There are behavioural addictions eg gambling.
12:21 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#1
The wealthy and powerful are harder to correct.
12:22 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#1
AA are always talking about an alcoholic not wanting to admit they have a problem until they hit ROCK BOTTOM.
12:23 PM
@YawnGod
#2
Functional alcoholics don't have a problem, by definition 🤔
12:25 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#1
There are no signs of non-human animals having any kind of religion.
12:25 PM
@Jzepp
The parable of the workers is a tricky one.
12:26 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#1
@Jzepp What is this parable?
12:26 PM
@Jzepp
Rather the laborers in the vineyard..
12:26 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#1
God is not meant to be one of us. We are not God.
12:26 PM
@YawnGod
#2
@OfficialSecularKoranism A good, coordinated migration can be awe inspiring.
12:26 PM
@Jzepp
#1
Matthew 20:1-16
12:28 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#2
What is it supposed to mean?
12:29 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#2
I think these dumb stories are meant to make Christians disagree with each other and fight each other to the death.
12:30 PM
@Jzepp
#1
The workers all get paid the same but some worked all day, some only an hour.
12:31 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#2
@Jzepp Cheap grace. The Koran rejects the story of the prodigal son for Allah promises to reward good and punish evil measure for measure.
12:32 PM
@Jzepp
#1
Does the Koran have grace at all?
12:33 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#2
"Whoever comes with a good deed will have ten times as much, and whoever comes with an evil deed, he will not be recompensed by anything but its equal". 6:160 of the Koran
12:33 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#2
@Jzepp Allah is said to be merciful and forgiving to those who sincerely repent.
12:34 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#2
Priestly absolution is cheap grace.
12:35 PM
@Jzepp
#1
So Allah has mercy, but not grace in the sense that mercy is earned?
12:35 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#2
Penitence in Judaism is a four stage process requiring cessation, confession, resolution and restitution. .
12:36 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#2
We are probably forgiven for innumerable sins we never knew we committed.
12:37 PM
@YawnGod
#3
@OfficialSecularKoranism When you step on the grass, you kill the bugs.
12:37 PM
@Jzepp
#1
Interesting. I guess I don’t know the mechanism of how that works.
12:38 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#2
At the end of the day, there is only one Abrahamic God. My thesis is that those in receipt of divine revelation are following God's laws more reliably than those not following divine revelation.
12:40 PM
@Jzepp
#1
That makes some sense. How to we gain our revelation in your view?
12:40 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#2
I know the Classical Theory of the Abrahamic God.
12:42 PM
@Jzepp
#1
Sure. I’m interested in how your view may deviate from that.
12:42 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#2
There are only two divine revelations said to be from the Abrahamic God: the Torah and the Koran. The New Testament did not have divine authorship. Jefferson omitted the Pauline Epistles in the Jefferson Bible.
12:43 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#2
I am a sinner boasting about my humility!
12:44 PM
@Jzepp
#1
Interesting. How does the NT not gain the label of divine authorship? You mean Thomas Jefferson?
12:44 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#2
The New Testament is by mortal and fallible men, isn't it?
12:45 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#2
Have you heard of the Jefferson Bible?
12:46 PM
@YawnGod
#3
God could have his holy texts forever engraved on a tungsten cube. God is a slacker.
12:46 PM
@Jzepp
#1
The Jefferson Bible was constructed by Thomas Jefferson as far as I know.
12:46 PM
@Jzepp
#1
I wouldn’t necessarily consider him a biblical expert in the traditional sense.
12:46 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#2
Yes, and Jefferson omitted large chunks of the New Testament.
12:47 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#1
The Red Letter Bible mirrors the Jefferson Bible, does it not?
12:47 PM
@Jzepp
#2
He denied the supernatural entirely, right?
12:47 PM
@Jzepp
#2
No miracles, etc.
12:49 PM
@YawnGod
#3
Who are us to promise ourselves things? That's narcissistic 🤔
12:53 PM
@YawnGod
#3
If one is drinking to slowly end one's own existence...one will need to confront that thing which one will encounter at the end of one's slow end. There is a method to the madness 🕳🤔
12:54 PM
@YawnGod
#3
oh my fucking god I had to rewrite that post like 5 times, fuc kyoutube censorship
12:58 PM
@YawnGod
#3
King Charles is a descendant of Muhammad...look it up! 🤔
1:01 PM
@YawnGod
#3
Australia goes to China, Canada goes to the United States, and Russia gets Antarctica. Fair? Fair 👍💯
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