Nervous_Dog Posted July 29, 2005 Report Share Posted July 29, 2005 Good to hear! I like a heathen! Glad to have a coke with you if your still in town when I get back after the 11th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Av8r Posted July 29, 2005 Report Share Posted July 29, 2005 Sounds great, but I don't expect to get back until mid September. I just got back from trying out Rio for the first time. It was a lot of fun, but it made me realize, my true love is LOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekong Posted August 3, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2005 Still on the Wagon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentors Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 Allen Carr's 2nd book about quit smoking was helpful to me, so, it's possible that his book about quit alcohol can hep you also. In Carr's eyes, alcohol and nicotine is in most parts the same. read more: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0572028504/202-4958883-1955007 good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torneyboy Posted August 6, 2005 Report Share Posted August 6, 2005 HI Yes...hope it works for you..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentors Posted August 8, 2005 Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 a colleague of mine has died last Saturday in Bkk as a result of his alcoholism. He was just 48 years old. He'd moved to LOS just one year ago. A friend who is working in LOS took him to the hospital, but it' was to late. He was an alcoholic for many years. Sometimes i wondering about the fact that so many farangs are happy to move to LOS and when they did it, many dies as a result of alcohol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiery Jack Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 Mentors said:In Carr's eyes, alcohol and nicotineis in most parts the same... I proceeded on that nicotine=alcohol premise awhile. It didn't work for me mate. I couldn't get the tins of super lager to light up. jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 "...Sometimes i wondering about the fact that so many farangs are happy to move to LOS and when they did it, many dies as a result of alcohol..." Well...yeah, but in many ways no wonder really. Ever see the movie "Leaving Las Vegas?" About a broken down drunken loser, at the end of everything, life sort of ganging up on him, and the Booze takes over. Loses his job, cashes everything out, and goes to LV with the idea of drinking himself to death in 3-6 months...Substitute Nick Cage for me, and BKK for Las Vagas, and well, could be the same story... In the last year and a half, I have seen 4 guys I knew, die at work, 2 on the crapper...all 4 over age 65...figure if you had a choice, dieing at work on the bowl at age 70, having nothing and having had a boring mundane life, or going out at 57 or 60, in a drunken stupor in LOS, having left a legacy of famous drunken mayhem fun and good times...which would you choose? I'd go for the drunken Mayem etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentors Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 Old Hippie said: In the last year and a half, I have seen 4 guys I knew, die at work, 2 on the crapper...all 4 over age 65...figure if you had a choice, dieing at work on the bowl at age 70, having nothing and having had a boring mundane life, or going out at 57 or 60, in a drunken stupor in LOS, having left a legacy of famous drunken mayhem fun and good times...which would you choose? I'd go for the drunken Mayem etc... From that point of view, you are right. My colleague was divorced from his thai-wife (of course...), lost his job, lost his money to the thai-wife (of-course), then he was sent to a withdrawal hospital for a couple of month without a good effect. After that he became a social insurance and moved then to Bkk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poskat Posted August 13, 2005 Report Share Posted August 13, 2005 stevescottcfi is correct and there is nothing in the AA program that requires a belief in any religion at all. The group itself is often used as the higher power for folks who are adamant aetheists(nothing wrong with being aetheist at all). Drinking is described as the symptom, not the cause of our difficulties and the majority of the AA program is about leading happy fulfilling lives once sober. The frequent drunkalogues you may hear in meetings serve the purpose of letting people realize they aren't the only ones this has happened to, and for me to remind me of what i don't want to go back to. I have been sober for 5 years going to AA meetings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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