You all of course remember the guy who committed suicide and his mother blames EQ for it, right? Very sad story - I'm sure most of us were very sad for him and the problems that he was having.

However, his mother has lost it.

http://www.olganon.org/index.html

I'm still shocked at what these people are writing. Read the boards. I'm still shaking my head...

EQ did make me stop cocaine.

Do I get a prize too?

I am too lazy, or not interested enought to read it, sorry.

But I bet there is a pitch for donation and money in there someplace.

My criticism with ALL twelve step programs is it requires a belief in God (with a capital G). These programs are ignoring the 15% of people who do not believe in God (see the asterisked points below, which do not require a belief in a higher power).

I am going to start an organization that boycotts twelve step programs, and perhaps addresses people's addiction to twelve step programs with my own 13-step program, which does not include the requirement of a belief in a higher power.

=p


*1. We admitted we were powerless over on-line gaming, and that our lives have 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 other compulsive on-line gamers and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

To try to... not believe in SOE?

I think my favorite bit is the first step...

"We admitted we were powerless over on-line gaming, and that our lives have become unmanageable."


oh brother...and my other favorite is in the key words at the bottom: "geek allure". Like someone is gonna find their web page because they searched for "geek allure".

Sounds like a friggin' perfume.

Lets all drop this mad obsession called online gaming and hop into the new fad Online Message Board Trolling. WOOT


Jan

It's a cult I tell you, a cult!

Sounds like a friggin' perfume.

LOL :)

Guys who wear "geek allure" are the sexiest, IMO ;)

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=%22geek+allure%22

Google, arguably the best search engine out there - 4 hits for "geek allure".

I love morons who think they know the internet...er...information superhighway (dooood).

/goes off to design a perfume bottle

*edit*
spelling > me

I feel sorry for those people. They think eq addiction is an illness. It's not an illness, it only brings out their illness. If you can't stop playing a game, you've got serious problems that are unrelated to the game.

I read a story about some religious kid that couldn't stop playing. He had just moved and his brothers were looking for wives(in high school), and he felt bad because eq made him popular and he was in a "guild." His parents were angry because EQ kept him from going to prayer sessions.

Okay. EQ>religion. That's easy. But what kind of kid chooses EQ over women? Maybe a kid that is forced to look for a wife in high school and attend prayer sessions every day. What the hell is with that? It's obvious that his problems are probably a result of his upbringing and recent move. Now online games are blamed for things his parents caused.

I'd like to see the site changed from "I can't quit online games," to something like "I have severe emotional problems." Because that's the problem. Blaming games isn't beneficial because it's not addressing the true problem.

P.S. Jesus loves you!