comrade simba

My first words were "Power to the Peoples, man. Power to the Peoples!" The R's and L's came out sorta like W's but there was no mistaking the Black Panther power salute.

Unfortunately too often it's the same phenomenon as those who found jesus in jail have just before sentencing, bwahahaha! I don't think it's a bad idea to have a certain amount of respect for something that can kill me.

kiss kiss.

Again... there's that statute of limitations thing... I hate okra.

Julie hassled me so I dug up the 3 monther

There is a Buddhist saying that goes something like "what is the point of having compassion if all it does is make two people miserable?" Feeling rotten over what somebody else did to themselves just makes more misery in the world. Somebody smokes - hey shit happens get yer ass back on the train. If you fell off and are in lurk mode (running as fast as you can along side the tracks trying to keep up) hey sucks to be you smoke one for me eh? I'll save my sadness for the next innocent family of brown people overseas getting zapped by a drone.

Wow - flashbacks to the couple of really ugly craves I went through. There were three of them so bad I had to call someone and come into chat. They sure sucked at the time but hindsight shows they were at most twenty minutes long. Perspective - added up I have less than 12 hours of discomfort involved in this quit and I'm a long term started as a kid heavy smoker. Marti - that one you went through is more than likely the worst it will be. You established a protocol to deal with the next one (if one occurs) so you got it covered. Good for you.

If most relapse then every crash and burn tilts the odds in my favor. In my circle now and then funeral notices are announced at a meeting for somebody who relapsed and didn't make it back. For us on this board we probably won't see that close association of cause and effect so I have to just extrapolate the worst case scenario for my own selfish motivation. The reason for my quit has not changed - of the 14,000 cigarettes I had scheduled to be smoked in the coming year one of those was the heart attack smoke and another was a stroke. Compassion is good and who can fault empathy but hey man - better you than me.

Ladybug 2-3-2014 comrade simba 1-21-2014 Tracey 22-11-2013 action 12-10-2013 Corporal Nancy 07-07-2013 Colleen 06-02-2013 Jenny 05-24-12 MarylandQuitter 10-07-2013

Sorry- dropped call. What was it again?

and you get a very large storybook. I insert a 1948 rotary dial Bell telephone

Jack pops out "Hi Jack... want some pancakes?"(Robin Williams in "Survivor") As a quantum experiment I insert another coke machine into the coke machine.

And you get a garden where everything grows perfectly... and get kicked out by God. I throw a damn towel in the coke machine

and happily walk away knowing it's all fixed now. I put in a passport application

Hahahaha - you'll never catch up!

**** piss shit. Nope, didn't help

Check yourself into a hospital. Let your psychiatrist decide when you should think about beginning another quit. Cheerleading another one of your quits when nothing has changed isn't support at this point, it's just ignorance at best and meanness at worst. This isn't meant to be tough love or anything of the sort - it's just caring about your well being.

I'm going back to the coke machine game.

What is greatly needed here is for the ignore button to not put up some lame ass blurb in place of the ignored person's post but a nice GIF of the Wicked Witch of the East melting down. I think that would bring joy to many. Especially if we had a ThunderDome. Then you could call the person out and post "You're a spaz" and their reply would be a meltdown! "Fool" - meltdown. "Numbskull" - meltdown. Ya gotta think outside of the box.

O god... next thing ya know will be mandatory group calisthenics.

Before criticizing someone, walk a mile in their shoes. Then when you do criticize them, you will be a mile away and have their shoes..

Thankyou Julie for the email heads up that the ban was lifted. Woulda sucked to have had to spend the night in county cuz nobody said I was free to go. Aine is my wife but last I checked she doesn't have power of attorney. Reminds me of something a native american direct action activist buddy of mine said once: "Hey, did I get drunk and sign another treaty?" So I asked Aine what the terms are. Shit - that coulda been settled in five minutes if there was a ThunderDome here. Formal acceptance of the cease fire, amended, is in your pm box MQ

You have to get used to not crushing them, too, so go for durability or replace often until you get familiar with them.

Maybe every tenth time I walk by a beer cooler or aisle at a store the beer alarm will go off. It's no big deal and I sort of do the same thing babs does. "Uh huh yeah right can't wait to sleep under a bridge soon" or the likes... and then just move on. I quit drinking 14 years ago. I figure in the future that's the way it will be if I walk by a cigarette rack or something. Time takes time. A forty year habit integral with every aspect of life from first thing in the morning to last thing at night isn't going away poof just like that. It's annoying, but it IS.

I nominate that for Quote of the Week. Gotta make sure to avoid creating a system in which you get a big wide "c'mon in" when you show up and are then led, guided or squeezed down an ever narrowing cattle chute. That is a social phenomenon that has destroyed countless numbers of good intentions. Like I said in some previous post, if the above happens, all who don't subscribe to a certain "train" of thought will just leave after the attraction to this and other places just like it wears off. What will be left - the long term elders, priest class whatever will all read from the same playbook - and use the fact that they are all on the same page to claim a gospel truth of the teaching. This is the pitfall I'm afraid will be the fate of this place. Listen to what bandito said above. Or not. Hey, I got popcorn.