Step 8: Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. This and the next two Steps are concerned with personal relations. Learning to live with others is a fascinating adventure. Obstacles: reluctance to forgive; non-admission of wrongs to others; purposeful forgetting. Necessity of exhaustive survey …
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This image kinda shocks me, but it also makes me laugh. Am I hiding around the finger-of-fate-in-fear, or just the clear point of the finger-of-fuck-you? Leave me alone. Question mark with exclamatory defiance. This is how I try to reconcile the beating around the bush of looking at myself (personal inventory of the Fourth Step) …
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We all are driven by our instincts. But sometimes we don’t watch where we’re going and we trip up. We take our God given instincts, so necessary for our survival, beyond what Mother Nature intended. We drink when the stock market goes up. We drink when the stock market goes down. We take the f-i-g-h-t …
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In the movie ‘Young Frankenstein’ Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (who insists his name is pronounced “Fronkensteen”) played by Gene Wilder, becomes curious of his grandfather’s study of reanimating a dead human body, and has a task for his odd hunchback assistant, Igor, to break into the town’s morgue and steal a brain for his experimental subject. …
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