Top Ten Reasons To Run From Alcoholics Anonymous

Quit now, or if you haven't started, don't! Here are the top ten reasons.

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[mdaskal2000]

The movie IDIOCRACY is a perfect example of the mentality of 12 steppers.

[ndrthrdr1]

@theothersituation said "let go and let god dude"

Let go and let Santa. It'll do exactly as much good, and for exactly the same reason.

[opendtuning]

you get better thru the 12 steps not listening to drunk-a-logues,on one to ones.Meetings are important to those who want to go,but you will here some shit from time to time.Just because some people have been sober for a long time, dosen't mean they have good quality sobriety.Alot of the information you need is in the AA approved literature ie Big Book,12and12.For those who want it that is,if you don't want that way of life then you try something else.But what I do know is that blame rarely works

[THUGBOAT831]

I'm clean and sober. I have been going to AA for almost 10 years. THIS WAS VERY FUNNY!!! hahaha

[bobdayle1]

your full of yourself

[andymrmoto]

yep - these are almost all misunderstandings and cult like things practiced in the name of 'modern' AA around the country by people who don't really know what AA is. I run from those meetings too.

But almost none of it is from the actual program - the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. The only thing from the book I heard in this video was the disease concept of alcoholism - which is then mocked. Read the program yourself to find out what AA really is.

[stelpan62]

I tried AA many times since I was 22 and always went back to the bottle. I couldn't stand the meetings. Boring, depressing, repetitive shit. At 34, I woke up one day and just decided that enough was enough. My life was a shambles. I have been very happily sober for 15 years now ~ WITHOUT AA. My life is fantastic. I also got so tired of men trying to 13 step me. I was desperate and the last thing I needed was some AA freak making a pass at me. They are all white knuckle drunks addicted to AA...

[MrBodypro8]

Me no likey AA.

[ndrthrdr1]

@mrrogue72 That's true, but what Higher Power that hears and answers prayers isn't some kind of a god? A quick reading of the 12 steps makes clear that it's a god they're talking about. Step 3, in fact, specifically says "God" is what we are to turn our will and life over to.

I don't believe in any gods, any afterlife, any soul, etc. - and I'm just as sober as anyone in AA who does.

[mrrogue72]

@ndrthrdr1 It's the Higher Power thing, not necessarily God.

[mrrogue72]

@mdaskal2000 When your ready you will stop. AND REMEMBER It's ok it's not your fault, it's not your fault, it's not your fault it's not your fault,it's not your fault, it's not your fault, it's not your fault it's not your fault

[ndrthrdr1]

AA uses faith healing, which doesn't work. SMARTRecovery, SOS, and Rational Recovery are reality based. Online recovery chat can help too.

Convincing yourself that an invisible superfriend will help you if you if you telepathically beam requests into space (pray) is not recovering from an addiction. AA just replaces one method of avoiding reality with another. I beat a drinking problem three years ago by leaving AA and facing reality.