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Dear  orange-papers.org
Having read your article and looking at your so called facts I find them falling short of the truth when it comes to the AA program. Please read the whole book Alcoholics Anonymous(or at least the first 164 pages). The people in AA have never took credit for me or anyone I know for being sober. Never told me that I must leave my wife, job or friends.I am not married to AA and I can tell you of many people who's lives are better today because they work the 12 steps.I also know some people that stopped there drinking and or drug usage with out a 12 step program but they all had something that help them weather it was a person a religion or a reason of some sort. The thing I have seen after 27 yrs of being around  People in recovery is that Most need help stopping some get it some don't some die.There are those to that have a problem but they are not true addicts. Now I can say that the 12 steps of AA made me look at what I was Why I did the things I did and how to stop the insanity of it. The first thing I had to do was admit I had a problem that I could not fix on my own.
Twelve step Treatment is Effective. It is like any other treatment it wont work for everyone but it will work for the ones that want it!

I tried to post this letter on there Face Book page. It disappeared with in no time at all.from what I have seen so far this a orange person or persons seems to be a hate group.

Your Dash

Do you worrier about your dash?
You know the - that is between the numbers on a tombstone from-to.
Do you think maybe that the dash might just be the most important part of those numbers? Think about it. The dash that small little line represents not the beginning not the end but rather the time spent.

Do you want to be right or happy?

It seems like I see a lot of people these days that would rather be liked then be right. In church or in private conversations they will talk about what is moral and just. Then when in a group of peers or public meeting or gathering like the PTA they do not state what they believe and know is moral. They stay quiet fearing that they will seem different or unlinked. Knowing all the time they are wrong and rationalizing it. Thinking everyone feels that way or it's been going on for so long or everywhere. Now the world judges me by my actions.God will judges by my convictions. For those of you that know me well know that I will fight for what is just even if I have to stand alone in doing it.

In this land of ours it seems the lines of what is right has gotten fuzzy. What do you do when the My in my rights treads on the your in your rights? Can you step out side of the box and look at it from a 3rd party's point of view. If we boil it all down and look at it will it all become clear. Do we push and shove bend, warp and twist until it becomes ours. Just because we have a right to do it, see it or show it. Does that mean we should. Is there a my rights and a your rights.Or could it be as easy as just showing respect. Sometimes we have to step on a few toes to get where we are going. My apology's for this if I have done it .In my struggles to over come my shortcomings in my personal & spiritual battles I have found many truths and many questions. I have found a definition of moral that I like and that is moral = truth.
Once in a great wail I have been told by some one that I surprise them by my knowledge about a subject, the word amazed was recently used (thank you by the way) I don't know way this is I guess I must just look stupid.

 As For these two words They can not be changed Truth, Fact,

People seem to want to run around in the Gray areas these days playing it safe.Well I say there is no gray areas.

The Media's thing .
So much is now consider acceptable and people see it so much they become desensitized to what they are seeing and hearing.   It becomes part of everyday life. Morals become bendable and wrong becomes more right. Why because Those that believe in the truth and standing up for morals are unpopular. And if all my friends go jump off the cliff .Well I'll celebrate there passing but I refuse to stand with the group just to be popular or liked.  

I also will not bend my knees to the all mighty corporate machine that wants us to believe we are not real men or not women if we don't have this or that,look this way smell that way, your not a real man if you dont have hair or drive a new truck or drink the right lite beer. Our children fall into it as well and we don't want them left out and we will be less of a parent if we do not spend lots of money on the desiner clothes or the newest fad.Now you lady's better make sure you you have the right hair color and the correct bra so you breast have the right shape and if you don't have them well you can buy them as well. and don't forget your panty guards better have wings!

Me and my big mouth

Being the out spoken person I am there has been many times my mouth has got me into trouble as well as out of it. Here is one of those times.

Remember the 360 page that yahoo had a wail back. Well I was at the public library one day looking at a friends photo from Hawaii. I will say the swim wear did not leave much for the imagination. I was also posting pictures of family some of them had my youngest son only in a dipper I had a video of him spinning himself in the tire swing it was cute and funny all in one. Well the Liberian and her subordinate came over and accused me of looking at and posting porn. I told her I didn't know what she was talking about and proceeded to pull up everything I had been looking at. Then she said He has it on his flash drive. Well on my scandisk there was no porn but there was some fantasy art w/ no nudity. She was making a big deal out of it. (I think it was mostly because she knew who my other son is and she had kicked him out for looking at porn. Needles to say she is a bitch and for the longest time would hide somewhere be hind me and peek over my shoulder) Well any way after showing everything to them and still not proving a thing to her she is going on about how in inappropriate all this is.I said to her (as I sign off the computer) Lady you are the type of persons that would take a bottle of wight out to the Sistine Chapel! The Jr Liberian turn and walked away as I did leaving her there with her mouth hanging open.

Acceptance & The social creature

We humans are the most complex creatures that God has made.
Now we may not be so different then some of his animal creations in physical make up but that is where it ends.
Our minds and our souls seem to strive to be something more.
We are social creatures but yet drive others away. We tend to be selfish & self centered. 
Our Complex minds capable of the greatest of things from simple task to giant buildings the reach in to the heavens. We send ships out into the vast unknown to answer the question whats out there?
Why? We seek life out there. Why? Because we are social creatures. 
Yet we can not get along with each other.
Why? Because we are selfish, self centered, egotistical people that don't like to accept Ideals that seem foreign or go against what we want.
What do we want? To be accepted. 
The Madman
   

About modesty

Ok Its time to tale this True Story forgive me if I have told this one before but it needs repeating. A wail back I was at the store standing in line at the check out. There was two lady's in front of me one of them complaining about some guy that kept following her in the store and starring at her. After lessening to her go on about it for 5 minutes or so I commented " Can you blame him?" She looks at me kinda stunned and ask What do mean. I said lady I can see your nipples. If your going to advertise don't blame some one for looking at the add! Her friend laughed the checker almost did she turn red but had no comeback for it. I knew when I said it I might be getting myself into a argument but I had to say it. There is a lot to be said for modesty! Not a lot can be said in favor of porn or public nudity. Ladies Do you know how hard you are on men for the way they act,stare or make comments about other women. A female can show her but chicks and 90% of her breast but a man is not suppose to look! Or only a certain type of man.The young good looking dude whistles and its ok but old guy looks and he is a greaser or dirty old man.                             
I say if you want to be treated properly you act proper! and part of that is in the way you dress. Now the reason for this tail is simple I don't want or need to see Fat nudes skinny nudes young nudes or any nudes. Now I am a hard person to offend but I must say I never seen a modest person offend any by the way they were dressed.

Some things never change and some never will.

Some things never change and some never will.
A week ago my sister in law passed. Now years ago my wife made a choice. It was between her Family or her husband. Not because I made her or asked. Because she got out of denial. so anyways
They tracked us down and we went to the service. The only thing that has change is they all got older and increased in numbers. I think 10 or less out of all of us there was not under the influence of something. Its sad to say but kind of funny my wife the youngest of all her brothers and sister is the only one that has grown any in the last 20 plus years.