Originally posted by Ghost of a DukeA one glass of wine limit, and no gambling. Sounds like excellent self discipline.
I drink alcohol, but 'never' get drunk. (1 glass of red wine is my limit. - A bottle lasts 2 of us 2 evenings).
I know though from childhood that 'gambling' is an area I can lose control in. (Slot machines in particular). As a result, I now never gamble.
Can the same be said of your cheese consumption?
Originally posted by chaney3I think what Karoly Poly is trying to say is that alcoholism is a symptom of some other underlying problem. Its kind of like a drug user, the drug user doesn't want to deal with the problem they just want to escape it, so they consume and it doesn't deal with the problem, but creates its own in the long term. The scary thing for me is that what if we don't know what is bothering us, its something buried deep in our subconscious and not entirely clear? Maybe its not even something that we have control over. I was speaking to a lady the other day, her daughter self harms because she was abused as a kid, beautiful young girl, her life almost in ruins and her mom having to pick up the pieces.
So if a person gets drunk, then falls down a flight of stairs and breaks their back.....don't blame the alcohol? There doesn't need to be anything 'nasty' about the thousands of scenarios that could take place while drunk.
I disagree with you.
Originally posted by karoly aczelI was doing work in a house and the lady was Hungarian. After I finished she gave me a little glass of some Hungarian liqueur made from peaches/apricots I think, it was called palinka? her family had made it at home and she had smuggled it into the UK coming back from her last visit home. She offered me another but one was enough, it must of had the strength of something like Brandy I reckon.
It's a contentious issue no doubt.
How about this: I come from a pure line of Hungarians who have been drinking for millenia. I can't get drunk from beer or wine. I need something stronger. Generally speaking , drinking alcohol for me is beneficial to my peace of mind and prolly bad for my body.
Compare this with the indegenous population who neve ...[text shortened]... ould assume he was more like the aboriginals in Australia. Is that right? or how does that work?
Originally posted by robbie carrobieIndeed. Palinka.
I was doing work in a house and the lady was Hungarian. After I finished she gave me a little glass of some Hungarian liqueur made from peaches/apricots I think, it was called palinka? her family had made it at home and she had smuggled it into the UK coming back from her last visit home. She offered me another but one was enough, it must of had the strength of something like Brandy I reckon.
My dad used to make it in the back shed. About 52%.Apricot.
Interestingly he was not a drunk - far from it. In fact he reminded me of my sisters ex-husbands family who were JW's.
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-Removed-Actually non medical drug use is anti Biblical. I could show you where it states it but you are not interested in either learning or in the Bibles perspectives. You are only interested in cheap attempts to trap people based on cherry picking their statements and misrepresenting their perspective. Its dull, intellectually stifling, predictable and a crashing bore. Please pester someone else with your hackneyed routine, I've seen the tactic a thousand times and come here to discuss spirituality not to be confronted with a dreary FMF clone.