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Re: Zemmy's story 10 Mar 2011 20:02 #100523

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thank you kindly, Me3!
Sometimes life is like tuna with not enough mayonaise
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Give, Forgive
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The reason I'm acting as if I'm pregnant, is because I'm expecting. I should be accepting.
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Re: Zemmy's story 10 Mar 2011 20:56 #100546

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Me3 wrote on 01 Mar 2011 01:24:

Yosef Hatzaddik, clearly you are entitled to your own opinion. That said you end off by saying you are not an addict, and you came here seeking yiddishkeit? If so I suggest you leave as this site is intended for addicts.


Me3 wrote on 04 Mar 2011 16:20:

I think Rabbi Twersky says that the 12 steps are really for everybody, even non-addicts.


Me3 wrote on 10 Mar 2011 19:55:

Rabbi Twerski Responds:

Many years ago, I was asked, Why don't we have a recovery program based on Mussar? I wrote the book "Self Improvement? I'm Jewish!" with such a program, and said, "turn the page and read the 12 steps." It's the same thing.

Twerski


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Re: Zemmy's story 10 Mar 2011 22:00 #100551

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Re: Zemmy's story 10 Mar 2011 22:38 #100556

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A taste of my own medicine??  ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Zemmy's story 13 Mar 2011 21:44 #100764

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;D ;D ;D
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Re: Zemmy's story 14 Mar 2011 19:28 #100898

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lately i have been giving a lot of consideration to joining a 12 Step phone group. not so much for the sake of changing behaviors, rather for changing attitudes. to release resentments and fears, be less focused on myself and to live life instead of just surviving. i cannot say my life is unmanageable. for a while i haven't done self-destructive behaviors like porn-viewing. but that doesn't mean that the attitudes and root-factors that caused it are suddenly converted to light and grace. maybe that's called 'hitting bottom while on top'.

often i wish i could just present my questions to someone who could tell me exactly what needs to be done. spelled out in black and white. and that i should be convinced of their truth (that might be the hardest part...). sometimes i feel that i think too much for my own good. יוסף דעת יוסף מכאוב. i need to realize that i cannot figure everything out. not the world, not the Torah, not Hashem, not myself. not even possum farming. and guess what? i am not expected to have all the answers.

on further thought, it seems that doubts, challenges and hardships are part and parcel of life. no use in wishing them away. the point is to learn to live with them. make lemonade out of the lemons. please pass the citrus juicer...

Sometimes life is like tuna with not enough mayonaise
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Give, Forgive
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The reason I'm acting as if I'm pregnant, is because I'm expecting. I should be accepting.
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Re: Zemmy's story 14 Mar 2011 19:33 #100900

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If you do decide to work the 12 Step Program, you must dive in. Completely. It will NOT work its magic if you just stand on the sidelines & evaluate each step how it works, why it works, will it work for me, etc. First do it. If you see results, thank Hashem! If you don't.......
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Re: Zemmy's story 14 Mar 2011 19:36 #100901

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good point, i guess you take out what you put in
Sometimes life is like tuna with not enough mayonaise
~Inna beshem ZS

Give, Forgive
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The reason I'm acting as if I'm pregnant, is because I'm expecting. I should be accepting.
~TZ
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Re: Zemmy's story 15 Mar 2011 08:49 #100940

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I FOR ONE PLAN TO join a circus group of sa as soon as possumible
i'm messed up
they 've got powerful stuff
i will put it in my brain
it'll help me advance mach 50 in recovery
i will begin to learn how to live fully and normally
nothing to lose
all to gain
let them see my face, hear my stories
we all have skeletons in the closet
and rid
and a card to the jcc
so next stop sa/phone group city
embarrassed? so therefore i shoud instead keep fantasizing about my "      " 's ****
or act out while looking at ****** ***** * **** *****?
havey az kanamer, this is my life, and i will fix it
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Re: Zemmy's story 15 Mar 2011 12:25 #100947

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Re: Zemmy's story 20 Mar 2011 15:20 #101423

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I was walking down the street and my kids said look at that guy he's dressed like a giraffe I said I know who that is, its the Zemiros Shabbos. They said "huh" you said the same think when we saw a possum last block and a green elephant two blocks ago. I said I guess I'm foncused it is purim you know. Ah freilchin purim. Well I'm glad they didn't ask me whose has a name like zemiros shabbos?  Ah freilchin purim.
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Re: Zemmy's story 20 Mar 2011 15:42 #101424

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Does anybody know Zemmy's address?
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Re: Zemmy's story 20 Mar 2011 16:44 #101426

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The Wildlife Conservation Society
2600 Southern Blvd
Bronx, NY 10460
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Re: Zemmy's story 20 Mar 2011 18:04 #101429

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Great thanks!
okay kids.  In the car.
got the orca tea?
the fresh leaves?
extra woodford lchaim?
let'ssssss gooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Hey no more nosh kids.  put that away.
No you already had one more ten times.
thats it.
save some for me 
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Re: Zemmy's story 21 Mar 2011 15:42 #101457

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all deliveries can be made directly to the GYE coffee room, needs reliable hechsher from PETA WWF and Greenpeace and of course yoshon non-gebrochts and litvishe shechita
any livestock need at least a week's supply of feed and a manual
if there is a chair around its neck please deliver it to the Bardstown Zoo

i had a thought on Purim, after kos shemini, in middle of dancing in endless circles
what is the point of the dancing? around and around and around, we just keep coming back to the same place, again and again.
then i thought that that is life. often we feel we are running in circles and not getting anywhere. but we are like worms under a rock, we think that life is limited to what we can see at the moment. we are just bozos on the bus. we are being LED. Hashem is making things go 'round. relax and enjoy the ride. ינחני במעגלי צדק למען שמו.
but it is vital that you hold on to the person on either side of you, so that you don't get dizzy and that you stay on track... did someone mention GYE?
lechaim!
Sometimes life is like tuna with not enough mayonaise
~Inna beshem ZS

Give, Forgive
~Cordnoy

The reason I'm acting as if I'm pregnant, is because I'm expecting. I should be accepting.
~TZ
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