12 Step Program to Save the Earth
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Posted:Jun 25, 2010 2:23 am
Last Updated:May 8, 2024 4:3 am
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1. We admitted we were powerless over fossil fuels, and that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a lasting and cleaner source of power could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over the laws of the biosphere and the principles of conservation.
4. Made a searching and fearless inventory of our energy abuse.
5. Admitted to ourselves, our leaders, and the world at large, the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to remove from our body politic all that oppose the wise use of resources.
7. Humbly set out to reverse our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all peoples and species we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such beings whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to inventory our resource use and abuse, and when we erred promptly corrected it.
11. Sought through monitoring and research to improve our conscious choices, seeking only to meet the sanest need with the least harm possible.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message throughout the land, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
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Are You a Sex Addict?
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Posted:Oct 1, 2008 5:01 pm
Last Updated:Jun 25, 2010 2:23 am
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A Useful Tool for Self-Assessment
Answer these twelve questions to assess whether you may have a problem with sexual addiction.
1. Do you keep secrets about your sexual or romantic activities from those important to you? Do you lead a double life?
2. Have your needs driven you to have sex in places or situations or with people you would not normally choose?
3. Do you find yourself looking for sexually arousing articles or scenes in newspapers, magazines, or other media?
4. Do you find that romantic or sexual fantasies interfere with your relationships or are preventing you from facing problems?
5. Do you frequently want to get away from a sex partner after having sex? Do you frequently feel remorse, shame, or guilt after a sexual encounter?
6. Do you feel shame about your body or your sexuality, such that you avoid touching your body or engaging in sexual relationships? Do you fear that you have no sexual feelings, that you are asexual?
7. Does each new relationship continue to have the same destructive patterns which prompted you to leave the last relationship?
8. Is it taking more variety and frequency of sexual and romantic activities than previously to bring the same levels of excitement and relief?
9. Have you ever been arrested or are you in danger of being arrested because of your practices of voyeurism, exhibitionism, , sex with minors, indecent phone calls, etc.?
10. Does your pursuit of sex or romantic relationships interfere with your spiritual beliefs or development?
11. Do your sexual activities include the risk, threat, or reality of disease, pregnancy, coercion, or violence?
12. Has your sexual or romantic behavior ever left you feeling hopeless, alienated from others, or suicidal?
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