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Perhaps a 12 step programme called EDF Anonymous should be made available to all addicts of this Forum.


1. We admitted we were powerless over the Forum?that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, 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 personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

11 Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His Will for us and the power to carry that out.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to EDF addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Helloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo one and all.


Please come to our social events - we are getting quite active with one thing and the other.


We have a monthly curry club (where we eat currys) and a monthly EDT drinks (where we drink), Mogs magnificently runs the Scrabble club and there are various other activities that get mentioned on the Forum such as photography; the "Whats on" section often triggers an outing - to the EDT comedy nights or the Magdalla quiz, etc. It is very nice to walk up and down Lordship Lane and bump into people you know, sometimes sober.


There is a strong culture of irony and sarcasm within the Forum, so if you are making a serious point and someone responds in a jocular fashion - do not take it personally, just get your own back later.


:))

So many new people - by the time rifleman harris said he was "new" I thought "'ang on, you've been around ages dear boy" - and a pleasure it has been too


And Michael Palaeologus - that is one of the best rallying calls I've seen in a while - it should be stickied (?) at the top of every page on here

Liz84

are you sure about this forum thing,

It is habit forming.

It takes more hours from your day than the tv.

It feels like you know people well, when you haven't met anyone

You begin to believe that you belong to a club of like minds, who tell it like it is

You can get a large dose of screenitis, caused by over dosing from the hours gleaning comic banter

It is so full of good advice it gives the illusion of being part of an extended family who are always there to help

I am a newby too as I started in November, I crept on having read for a few weeks then plucked up the courage to say something, now last year seems a long time ago.

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