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  • Hitting Rock Bottom
    Hitting Rock Bottom!
    an edited extract from 'Understanding Addiction'

    There is a point where a person emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and finally, physically breaks down under the stress and pain produced by their addiction.

    The end-point of the addictive process is when the addict 'Hits Rock Bottom'. This stage of the cycle is also often referred to as the 'Life Breakdown Stage', because here the addicted person’s life will literally start to break apart under the pressure caused by
  • Addict in the Family!
    Addict in the Family!
    an edited extract from 'Understanding Addiction'

    Because the person suffering from the addiction acts untrustworthy, the family stops trusting the person, and the members consciously or unconsciously start to distance themselves... When the person starts to act like his or her self again, not like an Addict, the family feels ashamed for having distanced themselves. They decide to reach out once more, only to feel betrayed once again.
  • Addiction Psychology
    Addiction Psychology
    an edited extract from 'Understanding Addiction'

    Addictive logic is summed up in the phrase "I want what I want and I want it now." Emotional needs often feel very urgent and compulsive. Such emotional logic works to satisfy this urgency even if it is not in the best interest of the person.
  • Addiction as a Spiritual Disease
    Addiction as a Spiritual Disease
    an edited extract from 'Understanding Addiction'

    Addiction is a spiritual disease. ... Because addiction is a direct assault against the Self, it is also a direct attack on the spirit or soul of the person suffering from the addiction. A person's spirit sustains life; addiction leads to spiritual death.
  • The Hanging of Ray Williams: 4
    The Hanging of Ray Williams
    A tragedy in four parts
    Part four - the hanging (part one, part two, part three)

    Ray's sentencing took place on Friday, April 15th, 2005.

    In the month or so between Ray's hearing and his sentencing, a lot happened, to me at any rate.
  • For Whom the Bells Toll
    For Whom the Bells Toll
    Uri Avnery

    An Iranian technician called Jalal-a-Din Taheri, who had been working at the nuclear reactor at Bushehr, managed to defect to Europe, where he disclosed the Ayatollahs' plans for producing nuclear bombs.
  • The Hanging of Ray Williams: 3
    The Hanging of Ray Williams
    A tragedy in four parts
    Part three - the hearing (part one, part two)

    Ray didn’t want me to come to his hearing. He told me he didn’t want anybody there.

    Ray said that none of his family or friends would be there - only himself and the legal people. That’s the way he wanted it.
  • A Just War?
    A Just War?
    by Rev. Hartshorn Murphy
    At the time of this writing, our national politicians are engaged in a vigorous conversation about how to topple the government of another nation. The discussion has been largely one of military strategy and political timing and there is a sense of war's inevitability. Voices have been raised internationally - and a few nationally - that question the legality of such an action. Few indeed have questioned the morality of such a decision in this post 9-ll world in which "homeland security" seems to justify things once considered illegitimate. It would seem that we are taking a page from Israel's textbook on dealing with terrorism by "preemptive assassination" (premeditated murder by another name); the Bush administration plans to remove Saddam Hussein by preemptive war. The Christian Church has a gospel obligation to speak in a prophetic voice of dissent when it is intimated that this contemplated foreign aggression is, by conservative TV pundits, claimed to be a "just war."
  • An open letter from the President of the United States
    An Open Letter from the
    President of the United States
    Still I find it hard to accept the terrible reality of the events of Tuesday 11th September, 2001. The days go by, but the pain does not go away. Nor does the passing of the days in any way diminish the enormity of the human tragedy that has befallen us.

    As a man I find myself shocked, stricken, angry and grieving. As an American I find myself affronted, indignant, defiant, and very much focused on recompense.
  • Drugs & the Juvenille Justice System
    I've often said that if it were possible for me to accomplish just one thing in this area, I think that I would most like to make a difference to the whole problem of drug abuse in Dulwich Hill. That's not because I necessarily consider it to be a bigger problem than the gambling, materialism, or general godlessness I see around me, but I do consider myself to have a particular calling in this area. I do feel that if I could make a difference in this area, then my life and time here would have been worthwhile.
  • Reunited with Morde (April 2004)
    A Cheap Holiday in Other People's Misery
    (catching up with Mordechai Vanunu in Israel)
    One of my favourite pieces of music is the Sex Pistols' classic 'Holidays in the Sun' - a song that begins with the line, 'a cheap holiday in other people's misery'. This would have made a fitting epitaph for my holiday in Israel, except that the $3000 air ticket meant that it wasn't exactly cheap.
  • Remembering those who died in the Bali Bombing
    October 12th Memorial Service
    Remembering those who died or are missing
    (since the Bali bombing)
    The events of October 12th have left us all, I think, a little shocked and confused. Those terrible outbursts of violence and mayhem that we associate with persons in countries many, many miles away are all of a sudden very close and very real for us. Terrorism is no longer somebody else's problem. It is now our problem too. We now have been swept up in this tragedy of violence that is engulfing so much of our world.
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