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Mel Gibson staggers off the wagon

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Sunday, August 6, 2006 6:51 AM

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Originally posted by TheRightStuff1:

If they are its' okay because they don't live here in our country except for a few and they are not a countrys' worth of them. There is no antiChrist just the Devil working on you from inside your heads and minds. Antimason you are an idiot and President Bush is NOT AN ANTICHRIST! You have named yourselves forsaken to be cool but God won't see it that way and you better think it over real hard!
Who are you with the evil ofr the GOOD?
You can change from being an idiot if you let President Bush alone and ask God for the way to having common sense in your life and posts.

TheRightStuff1


I'm with the "not stupid" (read: against you)

I am a Christian. you, aren't acting like one



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I'm so into Firefly, my butt glows in the dark.

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Sunday, August 6, 2006 8:11 AM

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No retard, it's a decease - now stop wasting time here and get some education instead.



Next time, before calling someone a retard, try running your drivel through a spell-checker first. That way, you have a somewhat lower likelihood of looking like a true moron.

Addiction MAY be a disease (I happen to think it is), or it may be simply an excuse (as others believe), but either way, there's a choice involved. If you're afflicted with the disease of alcoholism, it's one of the very few diseases that lets you treat it yourself, by simply choosing not to give in to it. It's not an *easy* thing to do, but it's entirely possible.

AntiMason, PirateNews, TheRightStuff... What the hell is it with you guys? Is there some fundamental problem that you freaky nutjob cospiracists and fundamentalist whackos share that keeps you from achieving even a basic middle-school level of reading and writing comprehension? I know, I know... "Bad spelling and grammar aren't indicative of low intelligence..." I've heard it before. You know where I hear it most? From stupid people, people who are just not capable of learning how to spell, punctuate, or communicate effectively. But they'll be the first to tell you how "smart" they all are, even if they can't spell "cat" without you spotting them the "c" and the "t".

Listen: If you're trying to communicate with us about all the evils and dangers in the world, at least do us the service of learning to communicate EFFECTIVELY. I don't care what the hell you're trying to say; if you can't say it effectively and clearly, and if you can't decipher where, when, and how to use the words "your" and "you're", or "there", "they're" and "their" in your posts, then at some point (sooner rather than later) you've lost my interest well before your point is made.

It doesn't matter how many "facts" you've uncovered, or what website backs up your claim; if you come across like an utter moron, I'm going to give you the exact same credence I'd give a moron, which is to say, none.

So, before telling us all to "do a little research", I'd suggest you do the same. Only this time, try researching English language usage. I'm pretty sure the Zionists, the CIA, and the KGB haven't completely taken over control of the English language yet.

Mike

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Sunday, August 6, 2006 8:41 AM

A quote from 'Tom Lehrer'? wow, haven't seen that in a long time

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Sunday, August 6, 2006 9:39 AM

Drinking is an action. There is no such thing as an involuntary action. A disease is not voluntary, it's an infection. If someone can find a virus or bacteria that causes alchohol abuse, I'll retract what I say, but since that's not gonna happen I feel fine with saying that it is not a disease in any way. Percieving it that way allows people to get away with saying "I was out of control" and just be excused. That is not the way to fight a problem. If you allow someone to say they were out of control, they couldn't help themselves, whatever, and just take that at face value, how are you ever going to motivate them to help themselves? And yes, they do have to help themselves. Anyone who wants to fight any type of addiction has to make a very clear choice to do so and devote themselves to it. That's yet another way it is not a disease; you can't will yourself to get better if you have cancer. There are a number of things you can do, but you can't say, "I'm never going to a bar again and that way I'll be okay." or something similar if you have an infection. But if you have strong will, you can fight and prevent addiction. And that's the only way it will be fought and there needs to be true motivation behind that. Making excuses is the antithesis of motivation.
Ok, I know a lot of people aren't going to agree, and I'm sorry for the rant, but I have seen... WAY... too many people be hurt badly by the phrase "He just couldn't help himself." People on both sides of a bad situation never benefit from that kind of attitude in my personal experience.
Now, let me be clear, addiction does clearly have symptoms and is something that needs to be fought, though there is no medical "cure". There are tools, and obviously places that help you through the withdrawl process. In that way it's nasty and almost disease-like once it becomes an addiction. But the initial drink, the process of becoming addicted, is an action and a choice. No infection, no germs, no disease. Choice.

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Sunday, August 6, 2006 10:15 AM

There tends to be a genetic component to addiction, anyone can be addicted but some people are more suceptable and this can run in famillies. But even someone who's suceptable to alcholism WON'T become an alcoholic unless they drink and drink heavilly.



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Sunday, August 6, 2006 10:27 AM

Exactly. I've got it in my family, it's likely I have an addictive personality (Firefly, anyone?) But I haven't, won't, and don't drink because I don't want to. And I have a friend who had an alocholic father, and she drank a bit for awhile and has now made the choice not to do it anymore because she's remembering what it was like for her as a child. Her brother, though, is drinking more and more and well on his way to becoming an addict. Genetics aren't going to overrule choice. Free will is the best - and worst - thing humans have going for them.

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Sunday, August 6, 2006 7:02 PM

KWICKO- your comments have got to be some of the most superficial, indifferent statements ive ever heard.

but to be honost, i wasnt really listening...im sure you missed a comma in there somewhere

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Sunday, August 6, 2006 7:07 PM

I'm still a little confused as to how the Jewish people are to blame for Mel drinking again.

Oh, and Antimason - you missed an apostrophe.




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Sunday, August 6, 2006 7:23 PM

you know..people say some stupid things when theyre drunk, and some times they reveal their true colors.

whats even more scary though is what is said when people are sober.

i love that we, who merely relay the words of the elite who openly state their agenda, are the ones considered "wackos"; while our opponents, who go through such pains to deny that even such words were said, hold themselves as the intelligent.

if im crazy, how much more so the people who run the world? yet instead of criticism, they recieve your praise and defense...what gives?


watch a little clip, straight from the mouths of those you deny the motives of.

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Sunday, August 6, 2006 9:00 PM

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Originally posted by antimason:


watch a little clip, straight from the mouths of those you deny the motives of.

Let me see the quotes in context, many sounded like they could well be talking about something else entirely and used out of context. I won't prescribe anymore trust in this source than I do in any other. I also won't prescribe the level of trust you tell me to merely because it happens to say the 'right' things by your view.

The source is dubious at best, it can't even get simple facts right which throws its compilers into question, Disraeli was far from the first British Prime Minister, I mean I know some Americans have trouble believing the world existed before the war of Independence but Robert Walpole is the correct answer.



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