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Old Dec 07, 2016, 08:22 PM
leejosepho leejosepho is offline
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Originally Posted by Icare dixit View Post
Importance of...that what you believe...
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And it doesn't have to be indefensible. No one is as good at defending (purely rationally...) as the delusional.
Got it, and your opening question is the one I had been pondering:
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Originally Posted by Icare dixit View Post
Do you ever believe something is written, spoken, in a certain state or done just for you or maybe people like you or to express the state you're in or your thoughts (maybe that all of reality is created for you; when it later seems unlikely)?
If we remove the "when it later seems unlikely" part, there is no doubt in my mind whatsoever that the book "Alcoholics Anonymous" was written both to ask and to answer certain questions I could never have verbalized on my own even if I had been able to sort the feelings, thoughts and actual experience behind them prior to my recovery.
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