I honestly had no idea what it meant-- I was looking for an unusually obscure color, and the word "chartreuse" popped into my head. I had to look it up to make sure it was real!
I think we have to start with replacements. In a real sense, AA meetings are like that for alcoholics-- it's a place to get together with drunks and talk about yourself in the evening, which is what a bar is. The difference is that it's oriented toward divinity instead of intoxication. In the same way, when we're used to filling our head with crap, we can't start by just emptying it out-- "When the unclean spirit is cast out of a person... it goes and brings along with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they come in and live there; and the last condition of that person becomes worse than the first."
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Date: 2022-05-05 01:03 pm (UTC)I think we have to start with replacements. In a real sense, AA meetings are like that for alcoholics-- it's a place to get together with drunks and talk about yourself in the evening, which is what a bar is. The difference is that it's oriented toward divinity instead of intoxication. In the same way, when we're used to filling our head with crap, we can't start by just emptying it out-- "When the unclean spirit is cast out of a person... it goes and brings along with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they come in and live there; and the last condition of that person becomes worse than the first."