Something Interesting I Noticed

Why make it about me, Ironic? It\\\'s interesting to have someone say you are derailing a thread simply by posting, but then create a forum topic about me. Then, they do the same thing they did to Marietta. Complained about her but missed her. Slammed me when I got there, thinking I was the hapless soul.

This isn\\\'t about an issue. It\\\'s about a personality. I think Bill was right about that.

You will do fine with your finals! To be in school again...

Clara what are your views? I have been a very short time and haven\'t clarified your position.

She and her other personalities obviously have severe mental problems. It is too bad that this site is all she has, when she probably would be better taken care of in some type of mental hospital or institution.

She is somewhat amusing to toy with, yet as a man, I mostly ignore her, as her viewpoint is truly irrelevant.

barman, 6 bloody beer binge, poor buggers probably starved to death. 6 bloody beer binge lol

You went to med school where, DeConstructor? It is anything but obvious that mental problems are present here. Very strong opinions, different experiences, different ways of interpreting things, yes; mental problems, hardly.

You deem Clara\'s viewpoint as truly irrelevant because you\'re a man?! Jesus Christ, that is one of the most primitive, redneck shitclaims ever to appear on this forum. Congratulations! Hope your ol\' lady doesn\'t mind being dragged around by her hair and screwed in the middle of childbirth simply because that\'s what YOU want.

because that was the subject of the thread.

Regarding the med school thing...
AA prides itself, and markets itself as an arresting \'cure\' for an alleged medical \'disease\' We should not forget that newcomers are authoritaively counseled to stop taking prescribed medication such as high blood pressure meds, birth control pills, and insulin, as counseled by persons with NO medical training whatsoever. I am guessing that people have counseled Clara Marietta Becket to stop taking medication that was probably prescribed to allow he/she/it to function in society, yet AA nearly always to counsels these people to stop these meds in preference to being cured by the AA god.

I am trying to be nice, because you obviously have some mental problems.

I\'ve never been counseled to start or stop taking medications by anyone in AA or by anyone who ever attended AA but quit or by anyone who was thinking of going to AA or by anyone who could be considered to have even the slightest connection to AA. You are guessing wrong, manly man.

The fact that your post is saturated with contempt expropriates your lame claim that you\'re trying to be nice.

So, back to the question: where\'d you get YOUR medical degree? In the spirit of AA haters everywhere, I exclaim \"Don\'t deflect!\" Just answer the question. If you can. Manly man.

that never happens in your group. nor 13th stepping, nor rape, nor financial predation. Nor gaslighting, victim blaming, religious intolerance, or racism. Yep just a group of humble exdrunks trying to lend a helping hand.

I am being nice by the way. I have not verbally bitch slapped you, as yet, even as much as you have been asking for it.

I don\'t know why it\'s so hard to believe what Becket is saying. For every person I met in AA who was anti-medication, there were 5 who encouraged folks to saty on their meds. It certainly happens that people are advised that they should not take any medications, but it is not an across the board problem. Characterizing it as such is just as bad as denying that it happens at all.

Ironic,

Would it be better for me to wish you luck on your finals or to tell you to stop surfing the web and get back to studying?

You are making assumptions, and probably incorrect assumptions in some cases, as to the gender of those who derail threads.

I am new and I have noticed that there is a small group of folks who will derail threads that tend to have meaningful and interesting content. They use the same banter. I wonder if it is one or two people, probably AA members, who are trying to prevent any meaningful exchange of ideas.

LOL. I wonder if it is AA folks who have had a few too many beers. LOL

Good luck on the tests, everything will go fine.

Clara is diplomatically vicious.

I should not judge her though, I\\\'m an idiot.

Well, I dunno, Ironic. Possibly some of the men on here are more into arguments and point-scoring, and the women more into sticking to the important issues, which might mean that women get more pissed off with and have a lower tolerance for the likes of Clara and others who just don’t think this is a serious matter (just an impression).

I’m female and wouldn’t want to see Clara banned, even if she does do her best to avoid any kind of rational discussion and is a narcissistic attention-seeker. From a purely disinterested psychological point of view she illustrates passive-aggressiveness and faux naiveté perfectly.

Anyway, I must admit I’m quite fascinated with the soap opera of her AA marriage, her three-times married husband, the story of his devious AA but non-sober ex-wife, the way he chooses his wives on the basis of the quality of their sobriety, and his tendencies to put bugging equipment into the phones and computers of his various wives to check whether they are drinking or not. If we banned Clara we wouldn’t get to hear what happens next.

So as far as I’m concerned, we should all join in a campaign to Keep Clara! OK, she has nothing of merit to contribute to the serious debate that some of us are trying to have here, but she does provide some tangential amusement.