Todschweigen Mail 2006/03/04

One day, after reading more nonsense about the fictional "genetic" hearsay of addiction, I was prompted to rebut Secret Agent Orange's theory. I mailed him this very detailed response. So far, I have never received a response.

As of the current time of its presentation here, Orange's website is having brownouts again. Also, I have reconsidered and decided NOT to pursue any line of employment within the social services system as a social worker. I'm having far more success teaching people how to quit their drug/vice of choice independently via my own infiltration of A.A.

Outgoing E-mail:

From:	ARID Site <thearidsite@juno.com>
To:	orange@orange-papers.org
Date:	Sat, 4 Mar 2006 23:18:33 -0500
Subject:	.ZIP format history, genetics and other interesting stuff for discussion.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Orange! I do have two quibbles concerning a couple of items on your website and some other interesting observations (wow...I just realized in retrospect that this is a long e-mail): 1) The .ZIP format was not the product of either WinZip or Micro$quish. It was developed as a competing technology against the .ARC format by Phil Katz and marketed through his company, PKWARE, Inc. in the late 80's. Its development was a result of a successful lawsuit against his product, PKARC/PKXARC, which infringed upon System Enhancement Associates's .ARC technology. Also, to build market share for the .ZIP format and its related utilities, Katz immediately released the .ZIP format into the public domain. Thus PKWARE, Inc. grew into a highly successful business which continues to this day at http://www.pkware.com A sidenote regarding the founder of PKWARE, Inc. and how it relates to the topic of alcohol addiction: Phil Katz was a problem drinker and, unfortunately, died as a result of his own habitual self-intoxication in a seedy bedroom with an empty bottle of schnapps at his side. His obituary can be found here: http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/may00/katz21052000a.asp The obituary has a sentence which I take issue with: "But the riches his genius produced were no balm for what had become a hellish life of paranoia, booze and strip clubs." I disagree. The paranoia of evading the law may have been "hellish" but certainly that was offset by the pleasure to be found within pussy'n'beer. So that paranoia was offset 2 to 1. Also, pussy'n'beer is "hellish"? To whom? The consumer or the rubes who buy into and infer such moralistic neo-prohibitionist nonsense? I have nothing against people getting liquored up or engaging in various sexual escapades as long as no one else's person or property outside of those activities gets harmed. Outside of that, all people have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, no matter how unconventional it may be to the status quo. He was NOT a victim. He gambled for that pleasure and paid for it with his life. Unfortunately, the article is riddled with portmortem nonsense that he was "crying for help" and attempts to paint the stereotypical "alcoholic" identity. Anyhow, I've been using PKWARE stuff for decades. Unfortunately, I do not recommend their recent bloatware now. I still use their DOS-based command-line version (circa 1999) and their Windows-based product (circa 1997). Both versions get the job done and take up only a fraction of storage space compared to their latest counterparts. As another digression, just to stick a shiv into the Micro$quish juggernaut, I highly recommend and endorse OpenOffice.org instead of Micro$quish's Cash Orafice. It runs on Windoze, Mac and Linux, has most of the essentials of Gate's software and is 100% open-source and FREE!!! Yes! It's the best selling point: Why pay hundreds of dollars for office software when you can get a robust office suite for the cost of download bandwidth? You can even make copies for as many people as you like, install it on as many computers as you desire and not run into any EULA (End User License Agreement) problems! It's always up to date, on the bleeding edge of technology and, frankly, works much better than anything in Gate's dreams. I'm in love with its word processor since I'm using it to not only type up the manuscript but also layout the presentation of the text as well. It's essential software within my toolkit. http://www.openoffice.org For an example of how I used it for book layout work I recommend checking out the .PDF version of "Twelve Steps And Twelve Traditions", available for download @ http://www.thearidsite.org/AM12X12.HTM 2) There is no such thing as a "genetic alcoholic". While you believe yourself to be one and while I could believe myself to be one as well, such belief with a lack of empirical evidence to back it up is not a confirmation. For myself, I have not had any lab work performed on myself which was scrutinized by a geneticist to prove the existence of genes which indicate the propensity towards excessive drinking. Likewise, I have never had any lab tests performed by a neurologist to prove the existence of an "alcoholic" brain. During my three month ordeal within addiction "treatment" consisting initially of inpatient "treatment" then outpatient counseling with cult attendance through it all, never was there an established protocol which confirmed either the genetic or disease basis of addiction. Through desperation and thousands of dollars spent with these so-called "experts on addiction", I look back and see how I believed their lies and, in the end, nearly succeeded in killing myself off in a drunken stupor and how I was diverted from my goal of quitting. I believed that I was diseased and, in the end, couldn't picture myself living as an "alcoholic" attending meetings which deeply offended my native beliefs. So I chose suicide, self-inflicted euthanasia with alcohol as the "anesthesia" which made me feel high as a kite (read that again to note the contradiction), through drunken debauchery. I'm only alive due to dumb luck and frankly, in regards to the idea of suicide now, dead men tell no tales. So I'd rather stay alive and keep talkin'. That suicide attempt was back in October '03. I have not drank since and I will NEVER drink again. Since then I deprogrammed myself and, thanks to my long history of Internet experience which dates back to around '94, I learned how to trust my instincts which comprises my own built-in bullshit detector. It was only when a dumbass sponsor wanted me to violate my own beliefs I stood up for myself. It's where my liberation from addiction truly took place. Right in front of him I stated that I was willing to spend ETERNITY stuck upon a Step. It was that one word, ETERNITY, which formed the foundation of my own abstinence. And, after a little research on the 'net and taking the AVRT Crash Course on the Rational Recovery website, I recovered completely in an hour in March '04. Afterwards I had a very peaceful sleep which I never had in decades. It's wonderful knowing that it's over. As for genetics, genetics do not influence striated muscle control. As in your own voluntary skeletal muscles in your arms, legs and face. The myth of genetics influencing one's decision to drink or not is nothing more than a myth propagated by the very same recovery group movement which has built a business and government trust upon such nonsense. I consider that myth to be among dozens others which contribute to something which I've termed F-SID (First-Step Indoctrination Disorder) where one believes that their addiction is caused and maintained by hidden causes and their own self-doubt in remaining securely abstinent is fueled by BillyBob's movement of irresolute addicts. I flip the argument around accordingly through a simple line of inquiry: "Does this idea support future self-intoxication?" Just as with the disease mythology itself, the genetic basis of addiction is answered with a resounding "YES!!!" Likewise, when one's own better judgement, their own neocortical humanity, says to never drink/use again their worst judgement, which is picked up and latched upon by the bestial limbic Lizard Brain, says "You're genetically inferior. Oh poor you. Might as well have one since this is what alcoholics do and it will feel better. And you do want to feel good rather than bad concerning that fact, right? Science can't be wrong." The only problem that it ain't science. It's government-supported and taxpayer-funded nonsense attempting to latch upon any "fact" to prove its own false hypothesis. The so-called "genetics" of addiction is yet another lie and flies right in the face of human physiology. Indeed, as documented upon Nizkor.org, this is known as the "genetic fallacy" (ergo, addictive "disease" runs in families therefore that "proves" that there is some genetic marker): http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/genetic-fallacy.html Also, if you think about it further, what if there was such a gene which can be detected in newborns? Does this mean that we immediately segregate and shuttle the kids off to Buchmanite "schools" and the nearest AlaTot meetings? Actually, with the fraud known as "special" education already in place, it is already happening. I recommend watching Andrew Niccol's insight-filled 1997 film, "Gattaca", to see what such a future would be like. Also, track down a copy of Bill and Lois Granger's 1986 book, "The Magic Feather", read it and notice the correlations between "special" education and addiction "treatment". I abstain from alcohol and other recreational drugs simply because of two reasons now: The first is that I feel so much better now. I think much more clearly now than I did back when I was a world-class boozer who used the child abuse I suffered by a Synanon-based "partial hospital/school", within the ruse known as "special" education, for five years as an excuse for my debauchery when I did stupid things while intoxicated. I drank simply to feel good and thought that such pleasure was what life was all about. Of course, the pleasure of recreational drugs in light of that abuse makes that pleasure seem like the be all and end all of existence itself. So, only after my head cleared by never drinking again, I saw the context crystal clear and that past memory lost its power over me. Also, the so-called "dual diagnosis" of my depression made little sense short of being a billing device for the insurance industry when I found that once I resolved never to drink again that my depression faded into oblivion. Again, there's nothing like the awesome and joyous feeling of knowing that it's over. The second is that I never use because I'm an active critic against the cult and all of its ideology. Wouldn't that be a HUUUUUUUUGE scandal to find that a critic against Buchmanism is drinking again? The cult, poor deluded sots, creams its collective britches wishing for that "inevitable" drink to come my way. Drinking is something I will never do because it is wrong for myself to do so in light of my own past stupidity. The responsibility is in my own hands at ALL times: No one and nothing else controls my own hands, the tools ultimately required for me to return to that addiction. Once I shouldered that full responsibility I found myself completely liberated from the cult and my addiction for I am 100% confident that I'll NEVER drink again. In fact ALL recovery groups need that self-doubt maintained, no matter what little of a shred there is of it, so that one is compelled to "keep coming back". Conversely, someone who displays such confidence is labeled as being over-confident, diagnosed as being "in denial" and thus stigmatized further with the prescription of more meeting attendance as "aftercare". I know the score and my commitment, 'til death do I part this mortal coil, to lifetime abstinence is solid. I love living and experiencing life itself! My past stupidity I can live down now because I know a lot more now. In fact education, no matter how hard earned through trial and error, is the perfect cure for stupidity. The more I learned the more I realized that the Social Services System as a whole, from cradle to grave, from "special" education to addiction "treatment", causes more harm than good and deserves nothing less than complete abolition. And not many people have seen it from the inside-out as I have. So I'm not so much as a survivor of addiction itself but from all the institutionalized bullshit which perpetuates such lies. The irony is that I'm studying to be a social worker within addiction counseling. If it wasn't for my own stupidity and my former addiction and seeing things from the inside like that I wouldn't have chose to pursue a career in that field. I'm sick of the lies and corruption and will do my part to expose it. If I can save even one person the expense, humiliation (not to mention their own existence) and torture at the hands of this cult then I've done my job. My role is simply to guide them to info at the Orange Papers, my website and at the Rational Recovery website and act as nothing more than a sounding board to answer their questions and to confirm their own suspicions! :-) One other detail: I considered getting my 2-year medallion months ago. However, since I'm having so much fun enjoying my life, I completely forgot the date of which I had my final drink at the time. So that day came and went and I thought about it: Why even go there to receive it? Such an action would only validate the lie believed by the rank and file Buchmanites that The Program "works" and I know through the documentation at hand and the corpses I've viewed that it never did. Likewise, when I received my one-year medallion, the pain of witnessing the placid faces of those believing the lies recited from the beginning of the Fifth Chapter of "Alcoholics Anonymous" turned into seething anger. I so wanted to scream! Alas, compared to how I used to participate within the cult and was a rather loquacious fellow within its rooms, I drew a blank and couldn't come up with anything to say for "discussion". Anyhow, I better stop writing. When I get started writing now I just get into the flow, wind up free-associating and painting a huge picture. Just remember that you're not genetically defective in any way, shape or form. You simply loved to get loaded and nothing more. Only when you realized that that shit was killing you and you were killing yourself with that shit, you quit. It took a doctor to state the obvious but at least you woke up, wised up and realized the wages of your former addiction. I'm just glad your doctor just told you the facts and told you to quit. Such doctors are a rare find nowadays (well, from my own experience at least). Anyone can quit. Anyone at all. They just have to tune out and disregard the noise of Mr. Lizard both from within their limbic system and outside via our "AAmerican" (not a typo) culture. Be well and live well one LIFETIME at a time, Orange! You rock da house as always up in here! :-) :-) :-) dr.bomb, Ph.D. AVRT(tm) \_____________________________ Editor of The ARID Site * http://www.thearidsite.org * <The Addiction Recovery Information Distribution Site> PGP keys at: <http://www.thearidsite.org/ARIDPGPK.TXT> ** Addiction counseling and groups are total frauds ** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBRAplqrw9MOKEeRC8EQKgeQCg6IKRkpn78vTX+GPMmM2HFviG7FsAn0w3 lkz/pIq4KaJfGIhhrzELowDK =UOsK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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