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AX>So why not take responsibility for your life overhaul, instead of giving
AX>responsibility to some unseen force that you only vaguely believe in?
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Excelent question. The main reason is that me taking responsibility for an
overhaul only made things worse to the point where I was nearly killed more than
once. The overhaul slipped further and further away the harder I tried to reach
for it. I was utterly powerless to make consecutive good choices for any length
of time.
I began to practice the spiritual principles of recovery that were laid down in
the 12 steps of AA and have been adopted by many organizations and millions of
people since.
Step 1 got really easy by the time I was willing to take it seriously:
(The X in step 1 is whatever it is that has kicked your ass. It can be dope,
women, food, tobacco or whatever)
1. We admitted we were powerless over X - that our lives had become
unmanageable.
Fortunately step 1 is the only one that needs working 100%. Step 2 was harder to
swallow:
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to
sanity.
And I could bore you by going on and on. The point is that with all I've been
through it is now at the point where it is irrational *FOR ME* to proclaim that
there is no God with any condfidence. I cannot claim that there IS a God with
much more confidence either. I'm stuck in the middle and frankly it's worrking
for me.
But I sure as hell am not going to turn my back on the faith that has borne
itself out as the greatest positive *real* force in my life with *real* results
to back it up. That would be stupid on any planet.
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