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Post by One Man Gang on Apr 26, 2024 14:39:21 GMT -5
Get busy livin', 'bacon! The truth is, it seems you're far more valuable to people around you (and afar) and it would be a shame to let that value die prematurely.
You apparently have the resources to really make a monumental difference in people's lives and I can't help but think most of the guys on here envy you in their own way for their own reasons.
Get your shit together and continue forging the good legacies you've started. Put the bad legacies in the rear view mirror. We can all preach to you from the keyboard but only you can do what it takes to get right.
We all have demons and many have shared them over the decades on the old forum, and here. Some have beat their demons and some have lost. I would hate to see you lose against something that I know you can overcome. We've talked about your health issues privately and you know how I feel about giving up. I think you still cling to hope and if you have hope, you should have the will to carry on.
I know you have real battles ahead of you so don't let the foolish things beat you, or hasten a defeat. It's obvious most of the slugs among us care enough about your well being to keep encouraging you. Don't squander the advice, man. Stop the decay, use your resources, and get busy livin'! God has a plan for you, and you ain't livin' it yet.
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Post by ferris1248 on Apr 26, 2024 14:55:47 GMT -5
Also if you straighten your life out, think of how many more kids you can help.
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Post by gardawg on Apr 26, 2024 14:57:04 GMT -5
we spend a short time living on this Earth even if it's a hundred or more years we spend a whole lot longer being dead Now ... as to how I feel about you. Getting drunk and chasing whores was never high on my list of favorite things. But to each their own. Do I care about you and your problems. Well, some but I care a lot more about folk that are trying their best to stay alive. Am I jealous. No. I live on island in an ocean front home. Mariner's Hospital is only a mile away. If their ER can't handle they will fly you to the big hospital in Miami. And I can walk to the store and not get robbed. But most of all is the fact that I live with a beautiful woman who is my best friend and is always there to back me up.
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Post by tampaspicer on Apr 26, 2024 15:28:15 GMT -5
WB/David find you a good shaman down there and do some ayahuasca. I assure you your life will be changed for the better.
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Post by TRTerror on Apr 26, 2024 15:43:49 GMT -5
Everybody hates a Quitter...Hope this helps
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Post by cadman on Apr 26, 2024 15:44:46 GMT -5
WB/David find you a good shaman down there and do some ayahuasca. I assure you your life will be changed for the better. David doesn't need no psychedelic. He has an addictive personality, he'll just get hooked on a new drug.
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Post by tampaspicer on Apr 26, 2024 15:46:45 GMT -5
WB/David find you a good shaman down there and do some ayahuasca. I assure you your life will be changed for the better. David doesn't need no psychedelic. He has an addictive personality, he'll just get hooked on a new drug. Ayahuasca has cured a lot of people of their addiction and other issues. It's not something you do all the time. It helped me tremendously.
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Post by PolarsStepdad on Apr 26, 2024 15:53:25 GMT -5
I saw serpent and the rainbow. I ain't doin that shit ๐
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Post by tonyroma on Apr 26, 2024 16:12:55 GMT -5
Resets the brain, makes it easier to find the possible triggers that may be causing the addiction. They are doing similar research with ecstasy, mushrooms , and kedemine.
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Post by slough on Apr 26, 2024 16:25:46 GMT -5
Had an uncle that was rattling ice by 9 am. Mechanic at poultry plant, ran the truck shop. Didn't get drunk at work but was sipping all day. Had a kidney stone attack while on a service call down near Madison Fl. Drove himself to the hospital. They smelled alcohol and told him to get out. They let him call his son in Albany to come get him. He told the Lord, if he got through it, he was done drinking. He was a man of his word. Still bought for his wife and changed nothing else (fishing, friends ect). Said he didn't realize he could have so much fun without it. Lived to be 90 + and was dancing a week before he died. It can be done. Just like smoking, you have to make up your mind.
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Post by linemannf on Apr 26, 2024 19:34:48 GMT -5
Unfortunately if you are going to be around a drunk, you have to get drunk yourself to be able to tolerate it, my grandfather was an alcoholic and I saw how he acted for years and even though I went through my own drinking/drunk phase when my wife had our first child at 30 I called it quits as I knew deep down inside that I had never seen anything good come out of a home of alcoholic's, broad is the road and narrow is the way, I try real hard to stay on the narrow way.
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Post by PolarsStepdad on Apr 26, 2024 20:19:41 GMT -5
My grandfather was an alcoholic. Then just stopped one day. Years later when I was older I asked him why he decided to quit. He said the whiskey just got to expensive. It was a good enough answer to a teenage/early 20s me. But now at 46 I know more than likely it wasn't the actual price of the bottle as much as it was the relationships with his family that it damaged. He was a good man and loved by everyone. But like most alcoholics the whiskey did a lot of talking and it seldom did anybody any good
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Post by tonyroma on Apr 26, 2024 22:36:29 GMT -5
Long line of alcoholics. My Grandfather did the grand tour during WW2. Africa, Italy , France. After all that he came back a private, story was they would take over a town and drink it dry. He brought it back with him and after a few kids with Grandma she got sick and tired of it and kicked him out. He was a homeless stumble bum for a few years. Grandma said one day he showed up in a brand new car and suit.
He ended up starting one of the first chapters of AA in NYC. Mom said there would be calls all hours of the night.. He ended up being a sponsor for a lot of guys. Coffee pot at the house was always running.
We walk a fine line, itโs always present.
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Post by ferris1248 on Apr 27, 2024 6:38:48 GMT -5
If this guy can do it, you can do it.
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Post by whitebacon on Apr 27, 2024 10:22:27 GMT -5
Also if you straighten your life out, think of how many more kids you can help. Trying to compose my thoughts. I come here, to this forum, for therapy, which ALL of you give me. The best gift I got in life was to know charity, from my grandfather. And you know I will continue to give until my last breath. When I moved here, I figured I'd die quick. Two packs a day, and enough liquor to kill most normal people. Daily. Somehow, I've lived almost ten years longer than I expected. I'm going to continue drinking. I'm going to continue making my community better. They will get my best effort, and they tolerate me, make me feel safer than I've ever been. Every single child on this island goes to school and has a clean uniform. Two of them, and I won't say their names, are going to UF on full scholarship, from my pocket. Not sure what else I can do except be an idiot.
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