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echo: 12_steps
to: ZACHARIAH
from: RICHARD WARD
date: 1996-08-06 06:01:00
subject: Computer Addiction

On (04 Aug 96) Zachariah wrote to All...
 Z > Am I the only one???
 Z > If you spend more time on line than you should, perhaps to the detriment
Do I or don't I spend more time on-line then "I" WANT to?  (I avoid 'would,
should, could etc "real life" wise) The answer is NO!  By the time I got
involved in computers, 1980, and further involved in on-line stuff (FidoNet
Echos) in 1986, I was already living a life well entrenched in the program.
I've found that using the essence of the AA program/steps as a guideline for
living MY life has made the past 24 years a very comfortable time in my life,
one day at a time.
 Z > times I feel this might be another addiction. So, I have decided to try
 Z > to seriously and soberly research the subject.
On-line?    ;-)    Of course I'm teasing, I just had an amusing vision of me
researching my drinking 24 + years ago in a local bar through the bottom of
a glass.   Of course it isn't so funny 'cause is was true then.  A few of my
peers and I often discussed our drinking and "our rotten luck/lives" in a bar
or our kitchen of a bottle of scotch.
... Step 1: Admitted that we were powerless over PC's...
--- PPoint 1.92
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