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Thursday, 9 December 04 ::
12 steps
okay, i'm not exactly funny.. but i tried..
the 12 steps of computer gadget addiction (modified from the al-anon 12 steps).
1. Admitted we were powerless over computers and tech gadgets, and that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves, and the computer geeks, could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of spirits around us (and not in our computers), as we understood them.
4. Made a searching and fearless inventory of ourselves, using no gadgets or geeks to help us.
5. Admitted to the spirits, to ourselves and to another human being (face to face or over the phone, NOT over the internet or videophone) the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have the spirits around us remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked the spirits around us to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, online and off, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take a personal inventory, without the use of gadgets or geeks to help us, and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with the spirits, asking only for knowledge of their will and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tired to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
note, i also fixed the whole GOD thing in the 12 steps.
posted by brooke at December 9, 2004 11:23 AM
