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elfwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 03:47 PM
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12 Stepping Texan
Step 1 - I admit that I am powerless over my addiction and that my life has become unmanageable
Step 2 - I come to believe that a power greater than myself can restore me to sanity
Step 3 - I make a decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of God, as I understand God
Step 4 - I make a searching and fearless moral inventory of myself
Step 5 - I admit to God, to myself and to another human being the exact nature of my wrongs
Step 6 - I become entirely ready to have God remove all of these defects of character
Step 7 - I humbly ask God to remove my shortcomings
Step 8 - I make a list of persons that I have harmed and become willing to make amends to them all
Step 9 - I make direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others
Step 10 - I continue to take personal inventory and when I am wrong I promptly admit it
Step 11 - Through prayer and meditation I seek to improve my conscious contact with God as I understand God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for my life and the power to carry that out
Step 12 - Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, I try to carry this message to others and to practice these principles in all of my life
(Borrowed from the Original AA 12 Step list)

Do you ever get the feeling that GW was introduced to this program in passing and only paid attention to those steps that suited him? Step one let him off the hook by making his addictions the cause of his failures. Step two gave him the opportunity to not take personal responsibility for becoming a better person and just left it up to God. Step three allows him to let God take the hit if he makes bad decisions. Step six and seven allow him to believe that any bad habits (lying, cheating, stealing) that he still has, God wants him to have because all the defective characteristics were removed. Step eleven explains his belief that all his actions are divinely sanctioned. Step twelve explains why he is convinced that anyone who doesn’t follow the same narrow radical definition of Christianity that he does needs to be converted or eliminated. As far as I can tell steps 4, 5, and 8-10 were left completely off his list. There appears to be no evidence that he has any remorse for the suffering he causes or makes any attempt to acknowledge any faults in him. If he has no faults (because God removed them all) he cannot apologize for them.

Basically it looks like he replaced booze with Jesus. One addiction was traded in for another.
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AndyTiedye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 04:30 PM
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1. Not Sure He's Given Up the Booze, actually
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elfwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 04:37 PM
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2. Boozin It
You may be right.
Can't form a coherent sentence.
Can't remember things he said.

Sounds like a drunken stupor to me.
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LadyChaos1138 Donating Member (19 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 09:45 PM
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3. Bush is like a comedian
Edited on Wed Sep-10-03 09:45 PM by LadyChaos1138
I love watching his speeches because he always says something stupid and there's always, Always, ALWAYS at least three words he can't pronounce.

Hee Hee Hee
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