It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads only to futility and unhappiness. To the precise extent that we permit these, do we squander the hours that might have been worth while. But with the alcoholic , whose hope is the maintenance and growth of a spiritual experience, this business of resentment is infinitely grave. We found that it is fatal. For when harboring such feelings we shut ourselves off from the sunlight of the Spirit. The insanity of alcohol returns and we drink again. And with us, to drink is to die. If we were to live, we had to be free of anger. The grouch and the brainstorm were not for us. They may be the dubious luxury of normal men, but for alcoholics these things are poison. - Alcoholics Anonymous.
It is obvious that there is a very sick person with access to a computer and The Olympian forums. We can only feel sorry for them and hope that they find help. They demonstrate all the classic symptoms of an alcoholic (addict).
If you have a God, pray to that God for this person. If you don't have a God, borrow one. This person needs all the help they can get.
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony. ~ Robert Benchley
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Excellent quote, Anon.
ReplyDeleteOne way to look at the commenters on the O's site is that they are a kind of sampling of who (and what) walks among us. They could be the person in front of you in the checkout line at Fred Meyer, the people in the vehicle behind you at an intersection, anyone you see in public.
I've always tended to think that people have good intentions, and I don't expect the worst in them. But there are some sick puppies here, just like everywhere, and they don't always look like the boogyman. Their writings on a comment board, however, do give us a glimpse of what they're capable of and give decent people a reminder that diversity has a downside.
So true, winer. A few times I've discovered a sick puppy among people I associated with.... their heads should have been spinning with the speed with which I shoved them out of the inner circle!
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But to play "Devil's advocate", as it were..
ReplyDeleteSometimes you can find great friends when you seperate the wheat from the chaff....
Thank goodness I found the wheat!
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(and left behind the chaff..)
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