Mailbag for 2003/05/17

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From:	ARID Site <thearidsite@juno.com>
To:	india jane <india_jane@yahoo.com>
Date:	Sun, 13 Mar 2005 09:36:13 -0500
Subject:	Re: Site for your Links Page
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 07:58:00 -0800 (PST) india jane <india_jane@yahoo.com> writes: > Hey There! Hello india jane! Good to meet you. > LOVE your posts! Did you ever participate on the RR boards? I was > on there for a couple of years. LOVE RR, totally thankful that JT > wrote that book. I occasionally show up as a spectator to the RR boards. I don't post there now because I feel that I outgrown them just as much as I have outgrown the recovery group movement. I find that I can accomplish much more by taking an independent route and "going it on my own" by posting my own things upon my own website. Jack Trimpey is a wonderful man who has provided a machined service (for FREE no less) for people, such as I, who wanted to learn how to quit with no Bill$hit. Period. The interesting part is that I used AVRT(tm) to quit smoking yet didn't realize it at the time. That was nearly a decade ago. I didn't know that there was a name for the technique, much less what Rational Recovery was. I learned of Rational Recovery from my stay in Clarion psychiatric hospital (Clarion, PA) in July 2003. From what was presented there I thought that RR was a clone of A.A. Naturally, with all of the A.A. propaganda in the form of the Grapevines and the "Big Books" and nothing else what else was I to believe at the time while coming down from an awfully bad, yet fun, bender? I'd post more but it's in the form of yet another article which I'll post within the week. > I've been somewhat of an internet crusader against AA since I found > AVRT 3 years ago. It's fun to run across other people with the > same viewpoint. I don't know if you've done any "AA bashing" on > other > sites, but it can get really heated, and it helps to have back-up. > I make it a rule to never get personal, and never use profanity, > and you wouldn't believe how the Steppers go off anyway. They've > got > like hair-trigger anger at the ready at all times. I'll admit that I can be profane sometimes. Usually, if I'm comfortable with good company, it's okay. In the case of dealing with Buchmanites you have to always take the moral high road for they know not the difference between right and wrong especially in light of their drinking/drugging habits. If there's anyone who has given abstinence an awful reputation it's those fools. Even my parents, bless their souls, still wonder if I feel uncomfortable when they have dinner guests over and drink their wine in front of me, expecting that to "trigger" something. I assure my mother that there is no need to worry. Now if only I can get her to open Ken Ragge's book, "The Real A.A.", to learn something about the cult. But yes. I have anger too but I channel it accordingly against the Bastard. Sometimes that anger manifests itself within my writings. I see the Bastard as the mortal enemy, my anger as a gift and that alcohol is nothing but an inanimate object which can do nothing on its own: I have to do something with it for it to do something to me. ;-> But isn't it interesting? You call them on their Bill$hit and they're the ones who react violently (intellectually and physically) and, in the end, wishing for YOU to have a drinkie-poo. They're projecting their debaucherous drunken fantasies upon you in an effort to live vicariously THROUGH you! And A.A. is a "quit drinking" program? Hah! If only the brainwashed masses knew the truth. That's what motivates me to keep writing. > Anyway, I thought I'd toss in here a suggestion to add > www.schaler.net to your list of links. This dude wrote the book, > "Addiction is a Choice." You've probably heard of him. I admire him > because he's been pretty vocal in the media about this issue. What > sucks is that they usually interview him along with a Cult Member. > Which totally sucks because the Stepper does the same thing that > the assholes on the message board do...bashes Jeffrey Schaler for > saying anything contrary to cult doctrine. I've heard of Mr. Schaler and, since this site is part rush job and perpetually under construction, I emphatically agree that addiction IS a choice! However how can one realize that it IS a choice when information is deliberately suppressed? It's possible for human beings, especially intelligent ones who do apply those precious I.Q. points, to yet make the wrong decisions based on lies. It's a pattern which happens with astounding sickening regularity within American society. Likewise, A.A. is considered a sacrosanct American icon which, upon closer examination, is anathema to our very own government as enshrined and codified within the United States Constitution. The reasoning being is that to attack the "disease mythology" is an attack upon A.A., which mainstreamed it, which means that A.A. must be defended purely because its "spirituality" is so "pure". And what about all of those poor addicts and drunks who will DIE without the 12-Steps? My response is simple: "We're ALL going to die! Do you want them to LIVE a life of submission on their knees or stand up proud, kick that addiction to the curb and walk into a life of liberation from addiction on their own two good legs and feet? Do you want to instill within them those crippling beliefs?" The recovery group movement and its business arm, the addiction treatment industry, want addiction to live and thrive because "keep coming back" is a very lucrative business proposition awash in filthy lucre. I am emphatically anti-addiction. I want to teach people how to eradicate it and choose for themselves how to live life on their own terms for the love of humanity itself. Anyhow I'll be on the lookout for that book today. I've read some of Schaler's work on the web and have been meaning to add that site to the links page. > Have a marvelous day, and keep up the good fight! Have an excellent life one LIFETIME at a time! Thanks for the E-mail! :-) > Well behaved women rarely make history. -Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Awesome quote. ;-> dr.bomb, Ph.D. AVRT \_________________________________ Editor of The ARID Site: http://thearidsite.tripod.com The Addiction Recovery Information Distribution Site PGP keys at https://thearidsite.tripod.com/ARIDPGPK.TXT ** The Twelve Steps are a downward spiral staircase ** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBQjRPx7w9MOKEeRC8EQJkggCg+8zFyEFO55speeahEjrxP6nyUK0AoPd9 mJkWWTL/FI5fgWvkXJhogZdq =zRMt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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From:	ARID Site <thearidsite@juno.com>
To:	india jane
Date:	Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:29:16 -0500
Subject:	Re: Site for your Links Page
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 07:58:00 -0800 (PST) india jane writes: > Anyway, I thought I'd toss in here a suggestion to add > www.schaler.net to your list of links. This dude wrote the book, > "Addiction is a Choice." You've probably heard of him. I admire him > because he's been pretty vocal in the media about this issue. What > sucks is that they usually interview him along with a Cult Member. > I bought the book on Saturday and finished reading it today. Schaler stated it ever so eloquently just with the title of the book alone. However a lot of Buchmanites are offended because that they believe that Schaler is stating that it's "easy" to quit once and for all. If they would crack open the book and read they would find that making the choice involves a change in one's on values and activities which make addictive behavior undesirable. He says in far fewer words that obvious fact as compared to what Stanton Peele stated within his book, "The Truth About Addiction And Recovery". I do differentiate between the two: Schaler's book debunks the Bill$hit quickly while Peele's book is actually a self-help guide which debunks the Bill$hit along the way. Back on Schaler: There is plenty of fodder for the Buchmanites ad hominem attacks. From his own professional stature right on down to his view that we should abort the War On "Some" Drugs and not fund state-sponsored "treatment". He outright calls A.A. the religious cult that it is and how sentencing into it is a violation of the First Amendment which various courts around the country have affirmed (see Peele/Brodsky/Bufe's "Resisting 12-Step Coercion" for some of the details on these cases), documents the various tactics on how cultists attack critics plus some sordid details concerning Project MATCH and Moderation Management that I was not aware of (I knew of Audrey Kishline's vehicular manslaughter conviction but never about Larry Froistad murdering his daughter and the coverup which ensued...and thankfully failed). My favorite chapter of the book is the one which details the origins of what I call "Disease MYTHOLOGY". It, like the many other chapters in the book, sum up the facts in as few pages as possible. He names the names (Benjamin Rush, Thomas Trotter, Dr. William Silkworth, William Griffith Wilson and Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith, for example) and connects the history accordingly. The relationship of these figures with the temperance movement and prohibition are correlated accordingly. This small chapter has deepened my own insight pertaining to a similar article I am working on. It's rare to find books which offer a lot of facts packed into so few pages. It's a very fast read which is easy to grasp. Highly recommended. Thanks for the book recommendation. I may have to use this for my first book review. ;-> dr.bomb, Ph.D. AVRT \_________________________________ Editor of The ARID Site: http://thearidsite.tripod.com The Addiction Recovery Information Distribution Site PGP keys at https://thearidsite.tripod.com/ARIDPGPK.TXT ** The Twelve Steps are a downward spiral staircase ** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBQjoEpbw9MOKEeRC8EQLotQCeILLdM9vp4USERJeFYqLhjuOvBmUAn07j ShLPFzb2a9wHTwDweT+V/COD =jHHe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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From:	ARID Site <thearidsite@juno.com>
To:	"Sane Gallery" <sanegallery@hotmail.com>
Date:	On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:20:15 -0600
Subject:	Re: Great site!
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:20:15 -0600 "Sane Gallery" <sanegallery@hotmail.com> writes: > Did you know that an anagram of Bob Smith is Shit Bomb? Now I do! LOL! ;-> > I just sent you an invitation to Gmail. It took me a while to warm > up to it, > but I really like it now. I'll stick with Juno. PGP doesn't like the web-based interface although I could use another E-mail program for Gmail. I'll get used to Gmail but I just concerned about security and forgeries. Plaintext is the best solution. Nobody needs HTML for E-mail, much less ActiveX and JavaScript. Likewise, for the purposes of authenticity and security, I will NEVER send NOR receive E-mail attachments with this account. > I actually created that scrolling Flash Brain on AA with a cheap > software > program that helps you create your own news ticker. I found the > image of the > brain in a jar, part of some Russian ad, edited it and then > strapped some > chains around it for the text to scroll over. Fairly simple process > over all > and it allows you to include an audio file...obviously. Now that's great! It is splendid and looked as though it seemed to use a lot of code but is quite simple (I would've pieced together more of the pro-drinking lyrics from Hank Williams Jr. or David Allan Coe over a picture of a circle of Buchmanites praying with that playing). Maybe once I get my Activism page up there could be a section there as how to find those tools. Call it guerrilla web design on a scratch budget. Anybody can do these things. Anybody! All anybody needs to do is to beat the Bastard and just dive right in! ;-> > I will look forward to seeing your page grow. You'll like what I add to it tonight. More 404's get killed, much more content has been added and some first signs of life within the E-mail department (including this). Thanks for writing and for your support! :-) dr.bomb, Ph.D. AVRT \_________________________________ Editor of The ARID Site: http://thearidsite.tripod.com The Addiction Recovery Information Distribution Site PGP keys at https://thearidsite.tripod.com/ARIDPGPK.TXT ** The Twelve Steps are a downward spiral staircase ** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBQjoI8rw9MOKEeRC8EQLKcgCgvb2qIKoDHt8eDSMdD+iM3Q7x5NkAn1J0 1a6tldS+VbodrS0DWnR/a3r2 =05V+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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