Carl Schattke
11-21-2001, 01:07 PM
The Twelve Steps of Cadence Users Anonymous
The relative success of the C.U.A. program seems to be due to the fact that a Cadence User who no longer works with the tools has an exceptional faculty for "reaching" and helping an uncontrolled user.
In simplest form, the C.U.A. program operates when a recovered Cadence User passes along the story of his or her own problem Cadence use, describes the tranquility he or she has found in C.U.A., and invites the new user to join the informal Fellowship.
The heart of the suggested program of personal recovery is contained in Twelve Steps describing the experience of the earliest members of the Society:
1. We admitted we were powerless over Cadence Tools - that our lives had become unmanageable with there use.
2. Came to believe that only 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 Customer Support as we understood Them.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to Cadence Support, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrong software.
6. Were entirely ready to have Cadence remove all these defects of CAD software.
7. Humbly asked Cadence Training to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harassed, and became willing to make numerous phone calls to them all.
9. Made direct phone calls 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 Cadence Support as we understood Them, praying only for knowledge of the software before they will carry us out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to Cadence Users and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
New Cadence users are not asked to accept or follow these Twelve Steps in their entirety if they feel unwilling or unable to do so.
They will usually be asked to keep an open mind, to attend meetings at which recovered Cadence Users describe their personal experiences in achieving production, and to read C.U.A. literature describing and interpreting the C.U.A. program.
C.U.A. members will usually emphasize to newcomers that only problem Cadence Users themselves, individually, can determine whether or not they are in fact Cadence Users.
At the same time, it will be pointed out that all available medical testimony indicates that Cadence Use is a progressive illness, that it cannot be cured in the ordinary sense of the term, but that it can be arrested through total abstinence from Cadence in any form.
The relative success of the C.U.A. program seems to be due to the fact that a Cadence User who no longer works with the tools has an exceptional faculty for "reaching" and helping an uncontrolled user.
In simplest form, the C.U.A. program operates when a recovered Cadence User passes along the story of his or her own problem Cadence use, describes the tranquility he or she has found in C.U.A., and invites the new user to join the informal Fellowship.
The heart of the suggested program of personal recovery is contained in Twelve Steps describing the experience of the earliest members of the Society:
1. We admitted we were powerless over Cadence Tools - that our lives had become unmanageable with there use.
2. Came to believe that only 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 Customer Support as we understood Them.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to Cadence Support, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrong software.
6. Were entirely ready to have Cadence remove all these defects of CAD software.
7. Humbly asked Cadence Training to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harassed, and became willing to make numerous phone calls to them all.
9. Made direct phone calls 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 Cadence Support as we understood Them, praying only for knowledge of the software before they will carry us out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to Cadence Users and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
New Cadence users are not asked to accept or follow these Twelve Steps in their entirety if they feel unwilling or unable to do so.
They will usually be asked to keep an open mind, to attend meetings at which recovered Cadence Users describe their personal experiences in achieving production, and to read C.U.A. literature describing and interpreting the C.U.A. program.
C.U.A. members will usually emphasize to newcomers that only problem Cadence Users themselves, individually, can determine whether or not they are in fact Cadence Users.
At the same time, it will be pointed out that all available medical testimony indicates that Cadence Use is a progressive illness, that it cannot be cured in the ordinary sense of the term, but that it can be arrested through total abstinence from Cadence in any form.