EPLAYA TWELVE STEP PROGRAM

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Sat Nov 20, 2004 10:12 pm

...it's because I'm studying for my SAM test on spreadsheets......I bounce between spreadsheets and stuff...now...what's your excuse?

gigglesnort · Post by **gigglesnort** » Sat Nov 20, 2004 11:18 pm

cowboyangel wrote:...it's because I'm studying for my SAM test on spreadsheets......I bounce between spreadsheets and stuff...now...what's your excuse?

having a cable connection, computer just stays up all the time, and too lazy to get in and out of the board, so much easier to just minimalize and then visit in between dictations (except for a minute then becomes two, and then a whole hour has gone by.....). My excuse. Yours?

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 8:26 am

I will try to stay focused on my family and not worryabout getting to a computer all the time.......(ya sure thing cowboyslime)

gigglesnort · Post by **gigglesnort** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 7:25 am

I got the DTs for CA! Family schmamily.....hijack a computer! Addiction calls, moderator! You have responsibility *here* (just where are your priorities, anyway?)

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 10:44 am

Here I am again.....wardriving for wireless in mom's neighborhood, sneaking time in at the 150 year old Dennis Library, my sister's broadband...is there no help for an eplaya addict? All Humanity!

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 11:21 am

I'm thinking that it might be a good idea to finally get around to taking my burning man shade structure out of the van before I take it down to my sister's,... Maybe I should do something besides e-playa for a while,...

I can,.. I can be a productive and worthwhile person,.. I may be a hopeless E-addict living in a virtual reality but I can,.. interface and post in real life,....

Rian Jackson · Post by **Rian Jackson** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 11:23 am

Zulegoona wrote:I'm thinking that it might be a good idea to finally get around to taking my burning man shade structure out of the van before I take it down to my sister's,... Maybe I should do something besides e-playa for a while,...

I can,.. I can be a productive and worthwhile person,.. I may be a hopeless E-addict living in a virtual reality but I can,.. interface and post in real life,....

heresy!!

where's 4WotA???

4 Women of the Apocalypse · Post by **4 Women of the Apocalypse** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 11:25 am

you called...??

who dares speak against the holy EPLAYA???

ZULEGOONA... YOU WILL COME WITH US.

*mwahhaha....hahahaha!!!*

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 8:17 pm

4Women...this meeting hall is about transcending addictions...or admitting to ourselves or other hopeless addicts that we are at least trying to interface with the real world...what the fuck is the real world anyway...look at all the shit going on out there...at least in cyberworld we can't kill eachother...though hurting eachother with words is still possible
come to think of it...cyberworld is a pretty peaceful place...wouldn't be any wars if everyone did cyberworld....hey.....am I saying that to be addicted to eplaya is a good thing? perhaps

now if I start thinking of my republican family members.....forget it, real sex happens in the real world, though cyber sex is pretty neat too.....
anybody wanna mess around?

too much Jagermeister cowboy

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 7:59 am

well wouldn't cha know it....here I am again.....

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 12:38 pm

...and again...just checkin up on yall.....sounds hollow on eplaya today.....

Donita · Post by **Donita** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 1:19 pm

tisha2 wrote:.....and i don't have a problem.

Denial is a river in Egypt.....

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 6:27 am

now I know things are bad, this morning my Mom caught me on the internet and said, "Johnny, you really are an addict!"

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 7:28 am

I'm a little concerned how I'll do. I'm my dogs and the trailer down to my sisters for a thanksgiving get together today and her computer my not be working. two or three days away, the thought makes my chest tighten up.

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 7:30 am

dont worry Zule, you'll make it.

samtzu · Post by **samtzu** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 7:51 am

I just spent sixty hours away from the ePlaya in self impossed exile, and except for chills, fever, shakes, hallucinations... I was okay. I did snap at a few people, had a minor incident with road rage (okay, a fire arm was waved around but it didn't go off... okay, so it went off... nobody got hit, alright!), and I took on a gang of teenagers and beat the crap out of five of them....

But I'm okay now...

Hey, where the hell is everybody!? GODDAMMIT!! I DIDN'T SIGN ON TO BE IGNORED!!!!

buckethead alien · Post by **buckethead alien** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 7:55 am

Heloo, my name is Buckeet, I admint that I yam powerless over the eplaya

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 7:55 am

Donita · Post by **Donita** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 8:41 am

When I first saw this thread, I said to myself, "Nah, not me. I'm not an eplaya addict. I don't have a problem. I can come and go as I please." Then yesterday the site was down. I started jones-ing. I kept checking back every 15-25 minutes. "WHAT is going on here?!!" I said to myself in almost a panic!!!

My name is Donita and I am an addict.
I can say that....just for today.
And I am not ashamed....just for today.
I can admit I am powerless over my eplaya addiction....just for today.
Can a power greater than myself restore me back to sanity? Umm. I don't think so. Too late for that.
But I can admit that too.....just for today.

Today's Affirmation:
Just for today I will know in my heart that I can count on my fellow eplayan-addicts to support me in my struggle and share their unconditional love with me and hug me when I need a hug and get me through another day...and I will support them too.

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 4:19 pm

cowboyangel wrote:We Have a bar. We have plenty of addicts. Here's your chance to process your plight in a safe, annonymous nearly place. Welcome. Bring your friends. And bring your shares!

The Twelve Steps For Eplaya Addiction

1. We admitted we were powerless over eplaya, that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity… ( no not you Rob).
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of the Goddess as we understood her.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves (reward is a drink)
5. Admitted to Goddess, to ourselves, and to another human being (no cats) the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have Goddess (or Lydia) remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked “Her” to whip away our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all eplaya and other persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them ALL.
9. Made direct amends to such people (even socks) wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer, bribery, meditation, flattery, Burningman tickets, to improve our conscious contact with the Goddess as we understood Her, preying only for knowledge of Her will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other eplaya addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. (Does not mean sexual affairs)

Sorry folks...I've been up to all kinds of shit....glad you've all come to meetings. I'm back on the west coast now, but I don't know where my head is yet...maybe I'll never find out.....oh...thought I'd repeat the steps again..
Love, your meeting moderator,
cowboyangel

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Mon Nov 29, 2004 8:45 am

Hi all..I'm going deep six for awhile...too many problems at home.

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Mon Nov 29, 2004 8:49 am

I for one will sure miss you Cowboyangel .

Good luck John we love you take care

robbidobbs · Post by **robbidobbs** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 2:20 pm

Fuck, I just "wasted" 3 hours on ePlaya. Didn't leave the house, didn't get any chores done, didn't even fucking bathe.

This is a sick addiction.

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 8:12 pm

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... c&n=507846

because I love you all...

tisha2 · Post by **tisha2** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 11:02 pm

where have you BEEN, oh guru of ours???

hope all's okay...

i miss you...

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 5:09 pm

guru? I miss you all too and I love you all too...even evil Rob......my kids would have turned out better with his advice. I want to spend some serious time working on my relationship......I'm too much of an eplaya addict.....so just a little bit here and there.
Your devoted eplayan troublemaker
cowboyangel

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 10:47 pm

White House Plugs 10 Commandments Displays

By GINA HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to allow Ten Commandments displays on government property, adding a federal view on a major church-state case that justices will deal with early next year.

The government has weighed in before in religion cases at the high court, including one earlier this year that challenged the words "under God" in the classroom recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.

The government supported a California school district in that case. Now, it is backing two Kentucky counties that had framed copies of the Ten Commandments in their courthouses.

The American Civil Liberties Union (news - web sites) sued McCreary and Pulaski counties, claiming the displays were an unconstitutional promotion of religion. The group won.

Justices will hear arguments, probably in February, in the counties' appeal and in a second case involving a Texas homeless man who wants a 6-foot granite monument removed from the state Capitol grounds.

The administration's top Supreme Court lawyer, Paul Clement, told justices in Wednesday's filing that Ten Commandments displays are common around the nation — and in the court's own building, the Capitol and national monuments.

"Reproductions and representations of the Ten Commandments have been commonly employed across the country to symbolize both the rule of law itself, as well as the role of religion in the development of American law," Clement wrote.

Clement said the displays are important in educating people "about the nation's history and celebrating its heritage."

The Supreme Court banned the posting of Ten Commandments in public schools in 1980.

Clement argued that courthouses are different from schools and often have "historic symbols of law."

Douglas Kmiec, a Pepperdine University law professor and former legal counsel to President Reagan and the first President Bush (news - web sites), said that the government had been expected to file arguments in the case. "It would have been politically untenable and legally timid if the government's chief court litigator had not done so," he said.

The case is McCreary County v. ACLU, 03-1693.

fer cryin out loud...loudly

I'm a Vedantin. Why can't I have a public display of the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Puranas, the Gita, the Yoga Surtas, the Atma Bodha?

The guy that named the geologic formations in the Grand Canyon thought so...... does this mean that the right-leaning congress will enact legislation to change the Grand Canyon's Hindu names to Biblical themes? The Jehova Schist from the Vishnu Schist?

bring back the lion's den....someone please..........

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 10:31 pm

lest you all may be forgetting...the meeting room is still open..........

tisha2 · Post by **tisha2** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 10:35 pm

oohh...!!! but where have you been??

yes, i'm still addicted (but not so much). how're thingz with you??

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 10:42 pm

Hi Tisha.....I am in recovery and it is both hard and interesting.
and it is very very interesting....perhaps some great masterpiece of thespian altitiudes will emerge from the rubble.....

EPLAYA TWELVE STEP PROGRAM

Crap. I guess I am an addict....

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