that’s too much god

Please!
No more God shit!

I’ll be good
this time!

---

All we know about
God and god
is what we have learned
so far

God only knows
what we will learn
about God and god
tomorrow
– Anonymous

---

In 1935
the
Oxford Group Christian
organization
begat
Alcoholics Anonymous
(A.A.)
which in turn
begat
Narcotics Anonymous
(NA)
in 1953

Six of the
A.A./NA 12 Steps
mention “God”
or a “Power
greater than ourselves”

For way too many
newbie recovering addicts
having 6 of the 12 Steps
with God them is

way too much God

even if it’s
just their
god of their understanding

---

The A.A./NA God Thing
keeps far too many
suffering addicts
away from A.A./NA
at the precise
point in time
when addicts
are most
vulnerable to relapse

(For us Old-Timers
it’s hard to remember
our first time

For newcomers–
I’ve witnessed thousands
–there’s a certain

je ne sais quois

that can be
a bit off-putting

when walking into
an
A.A. meeting in particular
for the first time

It feels like
having your
butt sniffed
by a bunch
of dogs
or gods
or God)

Far too many
children
are traumatized by
witnessing
Sunday morning gospels
and then
witnessing
their parents’ hypocrisies
on Sunday afternoons

The “momma trauma” suggestion
is all about
how that sort of trauma
causes addiction

When I quit drinking
20 years ago

The A.A. God Thing
left such a
bad first impression
on me

that instead of
joining A.A.

I just
AddictionShifted
into drugs

After 17 years
of doing drugs and
not drinking alcohol

I finally ended up
at an NA meeting

I immediately
GotAFuckingSponsor

and the rest is
my clean and sober history

---

If it weren’t for the
goddamn
A.A. God Thing

I’d have
20 years of sobriety
right now

instead of just six

and

my health would be a
whole lot better today

Thanks a lot A.A.!

The A.A./NA God Thing
isolates
far too many
suffering addicts
from recovery

The A.A./NA God Thing
unnecessarily
harms
far too many
suffering addicts

because there is
no better place
for us to go
for recovery

There is nothing
wrong with
The A.A./NA God Thing

It just seems
The A.A./NA God Thing

is just a bit
out of balance
with the rest of
the universe

Perhaps this
will help

Fasten your seatbelt!

Brace yourself for lift-off!

Get ready for a ride
into outer space!

I promise you

It’s breathtaking!

Unbelievable!

Awesome!

You will never be
the same again

Science is 99.999 percent
certain that your body contains
7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
(seven octillion)
atoms
and nothing else

And that’s
The Truth

So far
science has
been unable to
detect

if there’s a
supernatural

soul
karma
mental telepathy
sixth sense
extra-sensory perception (ESP)
psychic powers
spiritual being

or anything else
in you
or
out there
in the universe

Science says
there’s a
99.999 percent
chance those
supernatural
things
don’t exist

But
that’s doesn’t
mean a damn thing
100 percent for sure

It took
228 years
before
the legendary genius
Albert Einstein
proved with
99.999 percent
certainty

that
Isaac Newton’s
99.999 percent
for sure
theory of gravity
was
in 1687
incomplete

What science says
today
about
yesterday

isn’t always
what science says
tomorrow

So
maybe there’s
99.999 percent
chance

our
scientific detection
equipment
just needs
modernization

so we can
do a better job
at detecting
both natural and
supernatural things

It seems to me
the only reason
it’s called supernatural
is our scientific detection
equipment is not yet
advanced enough
to detect it

---

As for
consciousness

Oh boy!

Nobody
has a
clue
what
consciousness is

Ask a physicist
what time it is

and then
watch him
go crazy

Science has
AbsolutelyNoFuckingClue
what time really is

And that’s
The Truth

As for Einstein’s
99.999 percent
certainty about his
1915 gravity theory

99.999 percent
of today’s scientists
agree that

Einstein’s 1915
gravity theory
was incomplete

It seems
hubris is
the only thing
that exists
100 percent
for sure

(Perhaps
it was hubris

and not
a bunch of dogs

or was it gods?

or was it God?

I felt
sniffing my butt
at that A.A. meeting)

Anyhow
the
seven octillion atoms
in your body

are more atoms
than

the number of seconds
that have elapsed

since time began
and
the universe
came into existence
13.8 billion
years ago

Everyone has
their own suspicion

about how
the universe
came into existence
13.8 billion
years ago

but
no one knows
100 percent for sure

And that’s
The Truth

Science is 99.999 percent
sure that every single one of
your atoms

was
created billions of
years ago

from
explosions
in outer space

somewhere
in the universe

Most of the
explosions that
created your
atoms

contained
hundreds of millions
of degrees of
thermal energy

Some of
those explosions contained
billions or even
trillions of degrees of
thermal energy

That’s really hot!

For comparison

the Sun’s
visible surface is

9,941
degrees Fahrenheit

and

the Sun’s
core is

28 million
degrees Fahrenheit

Science says
about
90 percent of
your atoms
came from
stars more
massive than
the Sun

when they exploded
at
the end of their lives
billions of
years ago

The other
10 percent of
your atoms

were created from
the explosion
that happened
almost exactly
13.8 billion years ago

at the point in time
scientists call
the hot Big Bang

at the point in time
when

the universe first formed
and
time
(whatever that is)
began

Science is 99.999 percent
sure
that most of the
tremendous energy

the universe used
to create your atoms

remains locked away
right now
inside your atoms

That makes you an
unimaginably powerful
walking battery
made entirely of

a whole lot of
energetic atoms

that are
billions of years old

Scientists are
99.999 percent
sure
that

you are actually a
very very very old
very very very powerful
battery

If you could somehow
plug yourself into an
electric car

the energy
in your atoms

would run that car
for
an unimaginably long time

on a
single fillup of
the energy in
your atoms

When a butterfly flaps
its wings

and a
tornado results
half-way
around the world
don’t be surprised

there’s a
lot of energy
in the atoms
those butterfly wings
are made of

On November 21 1905
Albert Einstein
published his
famous E=mc² equation

Before
cell phones
computers
Facebook
the internet
Wikipedia
and
YouTube

Einstein figured out
that
everything natural
we see
here on Earth
and
up in the sky

is
made of energy

waves and waves of energy

In 2022 scientists say
they’re 99.999 percent
sure
Einstein was right
in 1905

Natural stuff is
all just
waves and waves
of energy

Yet
for the past
117 years
thousands of
scientists have
tried to
prove Einstein
wrong

because
that’s what
scientists do

So far
scientists have had
no luck
proving that

Einstein
was even 1 percent
wrong
about what’s natural

or that

supernatural
is even 1 percent
right

but they’re
still working
on those problems

because
that’s what
scientists do

---

You don’t notice
the natural
electromagnetic energy

like
radio waves

passing through
your body
right now

but that
electromagnetic energy
is there

passing
right through you
right now

Part of the food energy
you got from
yesterday’s
Big Mac

escapes your body
today

in the form of
the heat energy
your warm body generates

Part of that heat energy
escapes all the way

up

into outer space

in the form of
electromagnetic thermal radiation
waves of energy

which exist at
every temperature

across the
energy spectrum

E=mc²
tells us that
there is enough atomic
energy

(E
= energy)

in a bag of
jelly beans

(m
= mass of the jelly beans)

to run a toaster
for a billion years

(c²
= the conversion factor for
transforming mass into energy
= the speed of light squared
= 90,000,000,000)

The first
atom bombs

that
blew up
in Japan

were so
devastating

because
they instantly released

the energy that
their atoms
had kept
stored away

since the time
they were created

by splitting
those atoms apart

That explosive process
is called
nuclear fission

Fission
splits the
nucleus of atoms

Fission
releases atomic energy

If you put
a mass of
2.2 pounds
(1 kilogram)

of

the right stuff
into an
atom bomb

and
blow up
that stuff
just right

you get the same
amount of natural energy
that’s
instantly released

when you explode
695,000,000
gallons of gasoline

All that natural energy
comes from
blowing up

a single kilogram
of the
right stuff
just right

It looks to me like
science got that one
100 percent right

E=mc² tells us
there is 99.999 percent
probability that
there is
fundamentally

nothing but energy
everywhere in
the universe

And here’s where it
gets really weird

Some scientists today
say it looks like
when you

add up
all of the

positive energy
in the universe

and then

subtract out
all of the

negative energy
in the universe

the answer is zero

It’s hard to believe
but
that’s what the
latest scientific calculations
tell us

When you
add everything up

there is nothing there

The calculations
must be wrong

because
it sure seems like
there is a
lot of
there out there

So
that must be
God

Actually
the calculations
might be right

but right now
it looks like

it will take
until the
end of time

perhaps
an infinite
amount of time

before
we will know
99.999 percent
for sure

So

does that mean
the universe has
an infinite
amount of energy

and

an infinite
amount of time?

Or does that mean
the universe has

no energy
and
just time

and everything
we see
is
just an illusion?

Or does that mean
something else entirely?

If the universe
is not infinite
then
what is
outside the universe?

Is that
where God lives?

If the universe
is infinite
then is God
everywhere?

Or does God
live somewhere
special in our
finite universe?

I am not
so hubristic
to believe that
I know anything
100 percent for sure

Are you?

Are we
mere mortals
too stupid
to even
ask
the right questions?

That’s what I suspect

But
God only knows
100 percent
for sure

I wish
I’d still be around
when our
scientific detection
equipment
gets more modernized
in the future

when we
know more things
about nature
and the supernatural
99.999 percent
for sure

For now
I’m satisfied

believing that
God
and
universe
are
two words for
the same thing

Energy

That belief is called
pantheism

Pantheism is
the only religion
I know of
that’s not man-made

I am not a
Christian
Buddhist
Muslim
Hindu
Taoist
Jew
atheist
or
agnostic

Like Einstein

I’m a devout pantheist
who worships the God of Spinoza

and

my first sponsor
was a
devout Catholic
who never talked about
God at all

We got along just fine

When you
fully understand

the A.A./NA programs

you learn
they are
smarter than Einstein

The A.A./NA programs
were the
common bond

between
me
and
my first sponsor

because the
12-step programs

embrace everyone

no matter which

god
is the
God
of your understanding

or if
you don’t understand
The God Thing
at all

Now

with my
valid poetic license
in hand

and
after completing the
traditional 12 Steps
twice before

here is my third take on

the six of
the traditional 12 Steps
that mention
The A.A./NA God Thing

just to demonstrate
how smart the
traditional 12 Steps
really are

and that
the traditional 12 Steps
work for everyone

even crazy
Old Fat Fucks
like me

So
here goes

Personal Step 2
I came to believe
99.999 percent
for sure
that my
Old Rehab boot camp

and the

Alcoholics Anonymous

and

Narcotics Anonymous
programs

and

their members

are the
collective power
that
restored my sanity

and perhaps even
caused my
first true sanity ever

Personal Step 3
I decided to
turn my will and life
over to the care of
energy
and
karma
and
the universe

Personal Step 5
I admitted to
myself
karma
the universe
and
another human being
the exact
nature of my wrongs

Personal Step 6
Despite their
abundant energy

karma
and the
universe
are still doing

everything possible
to remove all
my defects
of character

Personal Step 7
I humbly asked
karma
and
the universe
to remove my shortcomings

and the response was

“remove your own
damn shortcomings”

Personal Step 11
I regularly seek
through meditation
to improve my
conscious contact with
karma
and
the universe

I’m 100 percent happy
I HaveAFuckingSponsor

God only knows what
I’d do without him

And that’s
The Truth


ON A CLEAR NIGHT
LOOK UP AT
THE BREATHTAKING SKY
AND LISTEN TO
THE ATHEISTS EXCLAIM
OH! GOD!

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