AdamSmith

Well...agree to disagree on this one?

Sure.

Ditto on laudanum, leeches and bloodletting, dunking women to test for witchcraft...

I don't think that I am being grandiose. I'm just saying that because I'm an atheist I have trouble with the concept of a higher power when it is interpreted as that being God. The Serenity Prayer begins with God. That's a turnoff for me. I prefer to think that my God is personal and the power to change is within myself. And I'm not saying I AM God or that I realm over over others. Now THAT is grandiosity!

The Higher Power bullshit is an entire ridiculous product of AA having been cooked up in the 1930s, by two lay not even doctors, based on what tattered remains of the very real, very spiritually valid Cain Ridge Revival in the 1830s yet still lived so very many decades longer still in the American spirit. And yet today!

That very great Americanization of Christianity was welcome, needed, and indeed required!

But AA is not. It is only and horribly a "Church" that wants to preserve and extend its power, against the face of all clinical evidence that its "principles" are a vastly, deadly, connivance against the interests of its sincere, needing, desperate supplicants.

A more horrible power play -- for no benefit whatever to its "winners" -- has seldom ever been seen.

http://screencrush.com/442/files/2013/03/thumbs-up.jpg

Now WHO could that be about?

Now WHO could that be about?

After your colonoscopy prep they're probably unnecessary at This particular point in time.

ROFLMAO

...literally

This was always my favorite...

http://www.slinkycity.com/img/fartmachine.jpeg

In fact I have two! I got one with three different fart sounds, then they put out one with five.

Which of course I had to have.

LMMFAO!!!

http://media.galaxant.com/000/150/330/dqgc0vpgif

Just parking this for future use...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3BabjUEWCk

John Rechy, City of Night. Highly intelligent and literate porn, of a kind. Fascinating even in its datedness, it still lives and breathes as writing.

Edmund White's early Nocturnes for the King of Naples. Far better I thought than his later, popular but awfully pedestrian novels.

Every word from the pen of Hollinghurst. Even though those words rather quickly got to be the same words, repeated over and over, after his first couple of books.

And the grandmother of us all, in a sense: Holleran's glorious Dancer from the Dance.

All those to me manage to be high literature and magnificent porn at the same time.

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I promise I will stop promoting this stuff at some point, but get Pure for Men. It should mean you don't have to go through the full cleaning ritual. www.pureformen.com

THANK YOU! I've found the same results from adding psyllium powder and a daily probiotic capsule to the diet.

Rapid transit! And regular and thorough.

I've observed before that some of the cleanout rituals detailed hereabouts sound like the year-long Purification of the Vestals at the Temple of Artemis.

http://www.ephesus.ws/assets/99671/bcjoxfli92.jpg

Lookit the grinder under that sink.

http://fringefamily.typepad.com/.a/6a0105364a8fba970c01774479a96d970d-800wi

and why do you advertise it even more...?

 

You have a line in front of me to be analyzed by you.

 

one more thing I wonder why someone hijacks a thread just for the fun of it.

Are you agreeing, or telling me to go to hell?

Forgive my genuine incomprehension.