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11-15-06, 08:03 PM
MAJ, I also think your post is very funny! You made me laugh.
I don't...like to drink either. It tastes awful and it reacts poorly with my system. I've had all kinds of problems, but never with alcohol. My sister and I were joking one time.....she said alcohol never agreed with her....she said God made everyone in our family like that so that we wouldn't grow up to be drunks, because our home was so dysfunctional. Well, I do praise God that I don't like liquor, it's one less thing that I have to worry about. My husband won't go near it---he used to be an alcoholic until God delivered him. My friend about 50 miles away had breast cancer. She is a christian and her doctor told her to drink a small glass of wine every day. She felt odd about doing it, but took his advice seriously. She now does not have breast cancer, she was healed. I'm sure it was God who healed her, but who am I to say that God didn't use the wine to help. She does not drink the wine any longer, because she is cancer-free. |
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11-17-06, 05:25 PM
Agreed. I never go to bars at all as there is nothing there to interest me. And the resturants that do serve drinks are more expensive. So still being cheap and liking Pepsi, I go to McDandy's and such. Or an all you can eat type place. After all, I do admit to the sin of gluttony on occasion.
So glad, Dreamer, that you and Chad like my humor. So many Christians tend to be grouchy. Some actually complained to me that my plays and puppet shows had funny lines. I have the opposite problem, family wise, as my whole family drinks like fish. None of them can figure out where I inherited an anti-taste-of-alcohol gene. Glad for your friend. It is true that many prescription drugs in liquid form do have an alcohol base, but I am surprised that the doctor prescibed the alcohol itself, without any drugs mixed in. |
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Re: Alcohol -
11-18-06, 02:42 AM
I've been in alcoholism recovery for a long time and, as such, I've never read or heard from any alcoholic who enjoyed the taste of the stuff from the moment of the first drink.
All drinkers (alcoholic or not), drink alcohol for the effect, not for enjoyment of the taste, although tolerance for the taste does develop after a while. SLE |
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11-18-06, 06:46 AM
yes alot of my family members suffered from this diease
My father struggled for years but has been sober for about 6years now. He always told me he hated the taste of it at the begining and just drank because that was what everyone else was doing Ireland is a massive drinking country, at the end of the day down to the pub for a pint is the normal thing to do. I drank in my teenage years (far too much) but once i begame pregnant i stoped that was three years ago i havent touched a drink sence i dont miss it Others here think im weird because i dont want to drink, i guess they cant understand it, God Bless Mounty
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11-20-06, 06:04 PM
Yes every one i have asked all said the same thing to me -
I hated the taste untill i just got use to it.... Seems crazy to want something that tastes bad ,but i guess its not the taste people drink for God Blessxxxxxxxxx Mounty
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Re: Alcohol -
11-21-06, 12:32 AM
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For the average drinker and the alcoholic, the important thing is the effect, not the taste., although they do develop a tolerance for the taste after awhile that, combined with their strong desire for the stuff, causes them to convince themselves that it tastes good, this is called "an acquired taste". You mention wine tastings. Those folks are what is known as connosieurs. They do not drink so much for the effect as for the pleasure of investigating the intricasies and subleties in the taste. I doubt that any of them are alcoholics because connosieurs sip while "normal" drinkers take a mouthful and alcoholics tend to guzzle. No drinker, in my opinion, can claim that they really liked the taste of the very first drink. I did not enjoy the taste when I first started , but I liked the "relaxing" effect. After a while, an acquired taste developed and made it palatable. But, the number one draw was always the effect. , SLE |
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Drinking -
11-21-06, 05:17 AM
I certainly used to drink too much as a student at University, and after an incident which left me very embarassed and humiliated I realised I was being a total fool. I wasn't an alcoholic, but if I went out with friends, I didn't restrain myself at all.
I still drink occasionally now, but it's a glass of wine with a meal. I live on my own, and even if I opened a bottle of wine, I wouldn't drink more than one glass, so it's wasteful. I tend to only drink out with friends and have one or two and switch to soft drinks. I do agree that a certain glass of wine can add to a meal, like a red wine with beef or duck, and white with pasta and chicken. I was in Scotland this weekend, and it was so very cold, and an uncle offered me a sip of brandy to warm me up. It was horrid. I managed one sip and pulled such a face. I couldn't drink it. Bleurgh! |
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