Scientific progress told us
there was nothing man couldn't do.
Knowledge was all-powerful.
Intellect could conquer nature.
Since we were brighter than most folks (so we thought),
the spoils of victory would be ours for the thinking.
The god of intellect displaced the God of our fathers.
But again John Barleycorn had other plans.
We who had won so handsomely in a walk
turned into all-time losers.
We saw that we had to reconsider or die.
- Bill W.
Pride is the mask of one's own faults.
D U E S = Desperately Using Everything but Sobriety.
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