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Taverner

(55,476 posts)
Thu Jun 6, 2013, 11:54 AM Jun 2013

What's my "higher power"? Science! [View all]

This is not to disparage the theists and those who have other higher powers, but for me, KNOWLEDGE is the only thing keeping me going.

Science tells me the WDs will pass after 72 hours

Science tells me that my body is readjusting itself to life without alcohol

Science told me that when I quit opiates, the reason I felt so shitty was because I had thousands of false opiate receptors craving opiates, and thus my body was not producing the needed amount of endorphins

Science gave me Ativan, so that when I quit drinking I wouldn't get a heart attack and could sleep

Science gave me Kratom, so that stepping down off Opiates would be less painful

That's MY higher power

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