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Re: Miracles... (Tim)         


Author: Rob D.
Date: Dec 21, 2007 04:08

On Dec 12, 11:58 am, nipntuk hotmail.com> wrote:
> Folks really seem to react to that word. It seems to evoke a challenge to their
> rational and reasoned ways of measuring things - implications of God and the
> supernatural. It's part of the language that critics of the spiritual aspect of
> 12 step programs resent and retract from.
>
> So it goes.
>
> Some people here are aware of the stories I've shared -
>
> Being born to an alkie woman as unstable and batshit crazy as you'd wanna see or
> know. She drove my five year old brother into the side of a mountain while
> pregnant with me - drunk as usual. He was in a body cast for almost a year as a
> result of that 'accident'..................

Caray!

Steve, you have made me remember why I keep coming back to this messed
up group...

Thanks for this.
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Re: Miracles... (Tim)         


Date: Dec 21, 2007 04:26

Rob D. wrote:
> On Dec 12, 11:58 am, nipntuk hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Folks really seem to react to that word. It seems to evoke a challenge to their
>> rational and reasoned ways of measuring things - implications of God and the
>> supernatural. It's part of the language that critics of the spiritual aspect of
>> 12 step programs resent and retract from.
>>
>> So it goes.
>>
>> Some people here are aware of the stories I've shared -
>>
>> Being born to an alkie woman as unstable and batshit crazy as you'd wanna see or
>> know. She drove my five year old brother into the side of a mountain while
>> pregnant with me - drunk as usual. He was in a body cast for almost a year as a
>> result of that 'accident'..................
>
> Caray!
>
> Steve, you have made me remember why I keep coming back to this messed
> up group... ...
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Re: Miracles... (Tim)         


Author: nipntuk
Date: Dec 21, 2007 04:34

Troia wrote:
> Rob D. wrote:
>
>> On Dec 12, 11:58 am, nipntuk hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Folks really seem to react to that word. It seems to evoke a
>>> challenge to their
>>> rational and reasoned ways...
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Re: Miracles... (Tim)         


Author: ao
Date: Dec 21, 2007 04:45

Rob D. wrote:
> On Dec 12, 11:58 am, nipntuk hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Folks really seem to react to that word. It seems to evoke a challenge to their
>> rational and reasoned ways of measuring things - implications of God and the
>> supernatural. It's part of the language that critics of the spiritual aspect of
>> 12 step programs resent and retract from.
>>
>> So it goes.
>>
>> Some people here are aware of the stories I've shared -
>>
>> Being born to an alkie woman as unstable and batshit crazy as you'd wanna see or
>> know. She drove my five year old brother into the side of a mountain while
>> pregnant with me - drunk as usual. He was in a body cast for almost a year as a
>> result of that 'accident'..................
>
> Caray!
>
> Steve, you have made me remember why I keep coming back to this messed
> up group... ...
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Re: Miracles... (Tim)         


Author: ao
Date: Dec 21, 2007 04:54

nipntuk wrote:
>
>
> Troia wrote:
>
>> Rob D. wrote:
>>
>>> On Dec 12, 11:58 am, nipntuk hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Folks really seem to react to that word. It seems to evoke a
>>>> challenge to their
>>>> rational and reasoned ways of measuring things - implications of God
>>>> and the
>>>> supernatural. It's part of the language that critics of the
>>>> spiritual aspect of
>>>> 12 step programs resent and retract from.
>>>>
>>>> So it goes.
>>>>
>>>> Some people here are aware of the stories I've shared - ...
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Re: Miracles... (Tim)         


Author: nipntuk
Date: Dec 21, 2007 04:57

Rob D. wrote:
> On Dec 12, 11:58 am, nipntuk hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Folks really seem to react to that word. It seems to evoke a challenge to their
>>rational and reasoned ways of measuring things - implications...
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Re: Miracles... (Tim)         


Author: ao
Date: Dec 21, 2007 05:07

nipntuk wrote:
>
>
> Rob D. wrote:
>
>> On Dec 12, 11:58 am, nipntuk hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Folks really seem to react to that word. It seems to evoke a
>>> challenge to their
>>> rational and reasoned ways of measuring things - implications of God
>>> and the
>>> supernatural. It's part of the language that critics of the spiritual
>>> aspect of
>>> 12 step programs resent and retract from.
>>>
>>> So it goes.
>>>
>>> Some people here are aware of the stories I've shared -
>>>
>>> Being born to an alkie woman as unstable and batshit crazy as you'd ...
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Re: Miracles... (Tim)         


Author: nipntuk
Date: Dec 21, 2007 05:17

ao wrote:
> nipntuk wrote:
>
>>
>>Rob D. wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Dec 12, 11:58 am, nipntuk hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Folks really seem to react to that word. It seems to evoke a
>>>>challenge to their...
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Re: Miracles... (Tim)         


Author: Atlanta
Date: Dec 21, 2007 05:26

On Dec 20, 8:17 pm, nipntuk hotmail.com> wrote:
> ao wrote:
>> nipntuk wrote:
>
>>>Rob D. wrote:
>
>>>>On Dec 12, 11:58 am, nipntuk hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>>>Folks really seem to react to that word. It seems to evoke a
>>>>>challenge to their
>>>>>rational and reasoned ways of measuring things - implications of God
>>>>>and the
>>>>>supernatural. It's part of the language that critics of the spiritual
>>>>>aspect of
>>>>>12 step programs resent and retract from.
>
>>>>>So it goes.
>
>>>>>Some people here are aware of the stories I've shared -
> ...
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Re: Miracles... (Tim)         


Author: Rob D.
Date: Dec 21, 2007 05:29

On Dec 20, 11:17 pm, nipntuk hotmail.com> wrote:
> ao wrote:
>> nipntuk wrote:
>
>>>Some people are so bound up in being victims that they seem to forget
>>>that reaching a mom is also reaching a child.
>
>> You know, as a mom, that's offensive to me, as a mom who lives in a city
>> where there was an abduction attempt, that's the third in the southern
>> area of my county and the first in my city...
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