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C: The third basic instinct is the sex instinct. Bill tells us there in the "Twelve and Twelve" that all human being. are born with the basic idea. the basic desire, the basic need to
have sex. He said, it may be turned off by calamity, it may be turned off by bad happenings, it may be turned off by bad teachings, but all human beings are born in the
beginning with the basic desire to have sex, because without sex we have no new babies. And without new babies, the human race simply fails to survive. Sex is like the other two. I doubt if we would engage in sex, because sex is so damn hard work.
I don't think we would do the work necessary to successfully completes it if we didn't got a reward for it. My God you can spend more money (energy?) in three minutes of sex, if you can last that long, (laughter) than you would all day digging a ditch. By Golly, you work at it, and you work at it, and you work at it, and then when you your reward, which is the successful -- the great feeling you get at the moment of successful completion. You just fall over sideways. The sweat's pouring off of you. You can't hardly get your breath.
You feel like you've died and gone to heaven and come back two or three times. I don't think we would do that work if we didn't get that reward. That reward at the moment of successful completion, is one of the finest things that can happen to a human being. There's only one thing wrong with it, like the other two. It seems to be just a temporary feeling.
You no sooner get through with it, than you begin to look around and think about doing it again. You think about not only doing it again, you think about doing it in different places with different people in different positions. (laughter) You're not getting all you want as feet as you want and in the way you think you need lt. You begin to do it with other people in other places in the wrong positions. There next thing you know you begin to hurt people.
Those people in turn retaliate against us and create pain and suffering for us. It's plain that a life run on self will can hardly ever be a success, because under those conditions, we can never get enough. We're always hurting people, places, and things. We always will suffer the pain and humiliation that comes from overdoing in those areas.
Now, if all human beings could practice it at the exact level that God intended there would be complete harmony in the world today. There would be no conflict. But left on
self-will we can never, never have that kind of harmony. We've already been told that whenever we're sober, we're restless, irritable and discontented. We're full of shame,
fear, guilt, and remorse. The mind starts seeking relief, and takes us back to the idea of taking a drink.
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