tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181024902947380214.post698790460670709734..comments2023-09-16T05:02:33.288-06:00Comments on McGowdoghouse: War StoriesMcGowdoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16866948381728741656noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181024902947380214.post-9441929783450461052011-04-30T12:38:43.993-06:002011-04-30T12:38:43.993-06:00You shouldn't have to respond to name calling....You shouldn't have to respond to name calling. This is our site. I've marked his comments as spam. We'll see how that works.<br /><br />The folks at ST say he's on his own and off the chain. I tried to converse with him in a respectful way more than once and it was met with hostility. Then he just tried to rub my nose in our new mission statement and that pretty much ended it.McGowdoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16866948381728741656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181024902947380214.post-1652294085915686822011-04-30T09:46:32.244-06:002011-04-30T09:46:32.244-06:00I agree.I agree.joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16266375123411463390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181024902947380214.post-90468495321040853622011-04-30T09:12:09.831-06:002011-04-30T09:12:09.831-06:00A trusted advisor offered me the consideration tha...A trusted advisor offered me the consideration that the best way to handle this type of stuff is to not respond. For me this is the best path. I will no longer fight or retaliate on this site. If I do, please call me on it.Rob Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13051571565294672514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181024902947380214.post-6681472979592256842011-04-29T19:46:58.389-06:002011-04-29T19:46:58.389-06:00I'm sorry to hear about your mother, Gunthar. ...I'm sorry to hear about your mother, Gunthar. Now go home.joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16266375123411463390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181024902947380214.post-76468746188954728362011-04-29T17:10:39.904-06:002011-04-29T17:10:39.904-06:00Gunthar, I think I hear your mother calling you......Gunthar, I think I hear your mother calling you....joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16266375123411463390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181024902947380214.post-77466981423747106772011-04-29T16:34:10.578-06:002011-04-29T16:34:10.578-06:00You bump the post back, I'll bump my comment b...You bump the post back, I'll bump my comment back.<br /><br />Am I like you? Yeah, given the fact that I’m an alcoholic I am. My story is much different than yours, though. When I give a pitch I spend a little time on what it was like, but not a lot of focus on booze itself. I really didn’t like liquor after a while. I just liked what it did for me. It got me “there”, where everything was all right. I was long past to point where the smell or taste of liquor meant anything to me. Cheap vodka doesn’t have a lot of taste or smell, anyway. It was being “there” that mattered. Peace and comfort and ease, like Patrick said. I talk about how my drinking affected my life, but I don’t spend a lot of time on that. I was a “high functioning”, “high bottom” drunk. If you can relate to that, fine. If not, that’s ok, too. I spend most of the time on what happened. How I was sober for 10 years and went back out. How I went to AA meetings with a drink in my car for 2 years. How I was drinking 2 ltrs of vodka every day. Then one day I decided that was enough. No blinding flash of light. No hard ass AA guy telling me to get my shit together. Maybe God slapped my upside the head. Dunno. But I went to Rehab and then back to that AA meeting, but this time without the drink. Guy I knew told me it’s about fuckin’ time. He became my sponsor. Just died last year. The rest what I talk about is in my post on Spirituality. I use that as an outline now, and update it every once in a while. I like to talk about the solution, so I don’t spend much time on the war story part. But that’s my personal preference. If I look around the room at any meeting I go to I realize that I probably wouldn’t associate with most folks outside the rooms. But inside? Shit. We’re like family. We’re alcoholics. Doesn’t matter how we got there. Everyone’s path is different. Everyone’s story is different. Important thing is that we’re at the meeting, helping one another stay soberjoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16266375123411463390noreply@blogger.com