Alcoholism Support Group
Alcoholism is the continued consumption of alcoholic beverages, even when it is negatively affecting your health, work, relationships and life. If you think alcohol is causing you to lose control, it's time to seek help. Our group is a safe place to vent, check in, get back up if you fall, and reach sobriety.
Yeah yeah, but you forgot to mention the Promises:
"The spiritual life is only a theory. We have to live it down... There may are dozens wrongs we simply don't care to right. We don't worry about them if we can honestly say to ourselves that we would shoot the bastards if we could. Some people cannot be seen, thank God - we send them a Dear John letter. And there are many valid reasons for postponement in most cases. We delay until the sheriff is at our door. We avoid being sensible, tactful, considerate and humble without EVER being servile or scraping. As God-forsaken people we rarely stand on our feet; we'll crawl before anyone we have to.
"If we are painstakingly obsessed about this phase of our development, we will be nonplussed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new vocabulary and a whole new way to grind an ax. We will edit the past and wish to spin the tale of it. We will not comprehend the word serenity and we will equate peace with victory over people and circumstances. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can bore the bejesus out of others. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will become our constant companion. We will lose whatever scant interest in ordinary things we once had and gain a morbid interest in our fellows' foibles. Self-seeking will become a new art form as we learn to brag to others how we've replaced vodka with virtue. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change but little. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will drive us nutz like never before. We will methodically puzzle over how to handle situations which never even used to occur to us. We will grudgingly admit, however, that God occasionally does for us what we wouldn't stoop to do for ourselves.
"Are these extravagant promises? We think not. Just go to meetings and pay attention. They are being fulfilled among us sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize whether we work for them or not."
--"Alcoholics Acrinonmous," Fifth Edition-in-progress, Nemorino, Ed. pp. 83-4
I what I posted. Glad you posted them though, they do come true.
Have a good day.
The only way you can succeed is AA.
There is even artificial intelligence now that will allow for a "prick" mood, once engaged, when the computer detects any level of "pitty potness."
No really, we need to keep the structure as it is...people helping people. So long as both people involved remember that the other is a person.
Like I always have said AA doesn't have a corner on recovery.
Whatever works for the individual.
Don't judge everyone in AA on just a few assholes please exjersey...I'm in AA and I'm not like that either and most of the AA's I know are not like that.
The only time I EVER see "AA is the only way to get sober" is when it's being said by a non AA claiming that's how all AA's are...I'll never understand that but okay..