AA is not
(nor has it ever claimed to be) the only way to get and stay
sober....
“Nearly
five million Americans woke up on New Year's Day with champagne
headaches and a new resolve to renounce drinking. Traditionally, that
would involve pouring out the content of one's liquor cabinet and
heading to a doctor's office or an AA meeting.
But in the
wilds of Reddit - of all imaginable places - more than 30,000
recovering problem drinkers have found that there might be another
way. It's called r/StopDrinking,
and it is, in a nutshell, the Internet's unlikely answer to
traditional addiction therapy......”
So if AA's
not to your taste why not give it a try! What have you got to lose!
Cheers
The Fellas
(Friends of Alcoholics Anonymous)
Interesting site with sound community guidelines. Definitely worth looking into. A kind of online meeting.
ReplyDeleteIn the words of the Big Book itself (Foreward to the second edition page xxi): "Upon therapy for the alcoholic himself, we surely have no monopoly."
ReplyDeleteAnd in the Chapter Working With Others page 95: "If he thinks he can do the job in some other way, or prefers some other spiritual approach, encourage him to follow his own conscience. We have no monopoly on God; we merely have an approach that worked with us. But point out that we alcoholics have much in common and that you would like, in any case, to be friendly. Let it go at that." And for the benefit of your cult readers "we have no monopoly" means OUR WAY IS NOT THE ONLY WAY. Got it?
Those Big Book quotes above are just a few that you will NOT hear from the cult sponsors. No monopoly on therapy and God? Telling the newcomer to follow his or her own conscience? WTF? No, you have to follow your sponsor. David B said so. God-almighty Clancy says so... (and who is his sponsor, by the way?). These cult quacks put themselves above AA, (oh, such humility!). They totally misrepresent the true, simple and open AA message to the newcomer. And the newcomer then becomes a kind of co-dependent hostage to the sponsor's delusions. I've seen it so many times. But in the words of Abraham Lincoln "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." The cult has been rumbled and word is getting out. Meanwhile, I'm sure we can expect more ad hominem lies, tumbletard fantasy blogs and other forms of hissy fit tantrum from the cult fruitcakes to entertain us. Pass the popcorn.