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I am a recovered alcoholic who tried to recover using almost every means possible, but nothing worked. By January 1984 I had just about given up hope and had resigned myself to an ugly alcoholic death in the not too distant future (just like my father...
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If you cannot find it in your phonebook, try AA (or Alcoholics Anonymous of addiction, the desolation, isolation, despair and sense of hoplessness, experienced by alcoholics and their families.
Specifucally for someone like you.
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A handful of anti-A.A. websites have taken to using midlrsfinh catch phrases like "Alcoholics Anonymous Bible." Unfortunately, when a viewer plugs in, he or she sees anything but "Alcoholics Anonymous Bible."
First of all, the basic ideas of Alcoholics...
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Just for the sake of reference, here are the 12 steps in the AA 12-step program:
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.
Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Made ...
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What is the official AA policy towards alcoholics who alcoholics who are non-religious and aren't willing to convert? I think they say to do something like use a rock or a tree instead of God.
It's an improvement.
They don't have one.
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The Twelve Steps and Alcoholics Anonymous Step One Study
Dick B.
Copyright 2012 Anonymous. All rights reserved
Heres what AA Cofounder Bill Wilson said about Step One
Our recovery Step One reads thus: We admitted we were powerless over alcoholthat our...
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I am not fond....
I'm new here to cyberrecovery posting.
Maybe there are other forums.
I was under the impression that the link of Christianity and AA was tangential at most, yet in this AA forum I see a lot of Christianity and not much generic spirituality .
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A History of the Big Book - Alcoholics Anonymous
HISTORY OF THE BIG BOOK
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
If you are going to speak on the history of A.A. -- there are many events and influences that lead to the development of the program of Alcoholics Anonymous....
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Alcoholics Anonymous. A "friend" in my fellowship took advantage of me!!!! How do I handle this?? I feel disgu? I recently relapsed. I had about a
year of sober time. I am in
recovery again. I called one of my
friends (FRIEND A) to take my car
cause I...
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It's your own fault, deal with it..
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The following is a reply by Ken B. to a question by Morgan about the effectiveness of A.A.:
Aloha to you, Morgan, from Maui, Hawaii!
My dad (Dick B.) copied me on his response to you.
Here are some additional details:
Early A.A. claimed a 75% overall...
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A team from the University of Illinois at Chicago and led by Professor Jennifer Wiley believes that inebriation might enhance the mind's "working memory capacity." This is how well one pays attention to a specific subject. "It's the ability to remember...
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Can You Turn Cheap, Shitty Beer Into Good Beer? the skirt and i made a red sangria: a bottle of cabernet, a generous amount of brandy, about 3 tablespoons of sugar, and coarsely chopped strawberries and granny smith apples
we'll probably get tanked .
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I will be visiting St. Lucia in August and would very much like to go to some meetings while I am there. If anyone has a list of meetings or contacts names/email addresses please let me have it. I would be most grateful.
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On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:24:46 -0500, "Jon" <jon8338@peoplepc.com
Alcoholics Anonymous:
THOSE WITH RECOVERY GUIDE THOSE IN ACTIVE ADDICTION.
Does it work?
What other options do they have?
Do or die.
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That one is not alone can meetings, but I've done a lot of drug and
alcohol classes, and they seem like places full of powerful minds and coming back to the reality....
Seas of alcohol doesn't have to
be a lonely place or even a boring place.
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