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Alcoholics Anonymous - Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down?

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Day 15 of sobriety, for me, it is. AA works.

Won't be posting today - gotta run and it's going to be a very busy day.

Am starting to "let go and let God (Group Of Drunks)."

Thanks for reading.

One day at a time. Way to go, and you have a lot of folks pulling for you.
 
One day at a time. Way to go, and you have a lot of folks pulling for you.

Thanks, Owl. :) Am a little teary eyed after reading your post.

I'm about to hit 16 days of sobriety in AA, God willing.

Just got off the phone again with a Maine 24 hour crisis hotline. Call went well and I feel ok - should be able to sleep tonight, in other words.

Also spoke with my psychiatrist a few minutes ago via phone - he couldn't be happier at how I'm progressing. :)

Thanks again, my friend and thanks to everyone else for pulling for me - I LOVE AA and I LOVE DP!!! :iloveyou::iloveyou:
 
Thanks, Owl. :) Am a little teary eyed after reading your post.

I'm about to hit 16 days of sobriety in AA, God willing.

Just got off the phone again with a Maine 24 hour crisis hotline. Call went well and I feel ok - should be able to sleep tonight, in other words.

Also spoke with my psychiatrist a few minutes ago via phone - he couldn't be happier at how I'm progressing. :)

Thanks again, my friend and thanks to everyone else for pulling for me - I LOVE AA and I LOVE DP!!! :iloveyou::iloveyou:

We all need some approval in our lives or life is a whole bunch tougher. All the approval in the world won't keep you sober--you have to do what you have to do to obtain sobriety--but it won't hurt either and it makes the process maybe a little less lonely. And you made me smile. :)

I think the average time for the insomnia problem to work itself out is 30 days or so for most. It will get better. You might try abstaining from caffeine for a couple of hours before trying to sleep and some physical exercise sometimes helps.
 
Day 17 for me sober now in AA, it is. Emotions are starting to come into the picture. Anger for one. But, I don't have to drink over it, that's the difference between then and now. Also, I'm finding out that I don't like everyone (in AA or out) - my ***hole boss is one of those people I don't like. But again, I don't have to drink over it. HIS problem. I know who and what I am (I don't need anyone to tell me) and I'm only in AA to clean up my side of the street. Other peoples' problems belong to them and they own the consequences that may result. I don't take anything personally, in other words - why should I? It has nothing to do with me. There are a lot of pu**ies and idiots out there - even in AA - but the jerks whom talk the talk yet can't walk the walk are NOT the program of AA. They are simply hypocrites and cowards are found everywhere - in AA and out. Part of life and living.

Feeling pretty good today - going to church today (I've found God), going to a meeting, will help others and talk to other drunks.

It's going to be a Happy Day for me - I wish everyone whom reads this post a Happy Day. :)
 
Happy Day, DP! :)

It's Day 18 for me now and I couldn't be happier.

Don't expect to relapse now (am much too happy in sobriety), but will definitely let you guys know if/when that happens (God willing, it never will).

Thanks, everyone, for a super fantastic thread - and for helping me get sober. For that, I will be eternally grateful.

From one whom is about to rock, I salute you - I love AA and DP!!!! Salute-Veterans-Day-Memorial-Day-United-States-smiley-emoticon-001226-facebook.gif

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Happy Day, DP! :)

It's Day 18 for me now and I couldn't be happier.

Don't expect to relapse now (am much too happy in sobriety), but will definitely let you guys know if/when that happens (God willing, it never will).

Thanks, everyone, for a super fantastic thread - and for helping me get sober. For that, I will be eternally grateful.

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Congratulations (seriously).... quitter, (not so seriously).
 
You don't have to be a theist to join. Not at all. Plenty of atheists are members of AA... including some members who have admitted as such in this very thread.

I realize that, and that's fine, but I'm talking about the legality of court mandated AA attendance for atheists who object to a theist-structured approach to recovery. That's all.
 
I am not sure that you understand the word force. Noone is forced into AA. AA is given as an option in place of incarceration for people who have violated the law because they have shown they cannot drink responsibly. If you dont like AA, either don't break the law or accept the punishment. And yes, help is help. If alcohol is ruining your life, ruining your family, ect and AA can help, then it is help. This idea that so many of you have that since it has religious undertones to it is clearly bad is asinine. AA isn't telling you to convert to a specific religion or anything else. If you are in AA you have either admitted or proven that you alone cannot control your addiction. Faith is a powerful tool, regardless of what you are putting that faith into. Most people believe in something. Whether that is a God of any variety or some other spiritual support either external or internal.

There are any number of recovery programs out there, many of them with internal subsidies for alcoholics. Courts defer to AA because it has become the standard. And I'm sorry, but prison vs. AA is not a real choice... obviously people will choose AA if only given those two choices.

Look, people are blowing what I've said out of proportion. All I'm saying is that it's constitutionally questionable to make someone go to AA who doesn't believe in god and objects to a recovery structure that requires belief in a higher power. And many court rulings agree with me. For the life of me I don't know why AA is the universal standard when there are many other programs. There's also the little circulated fact that the AA structure doesn't work for everyone.

I'd rather the courts mandate "rehab" as a general notion, than specifically AA. Courts should not be endorsing private organizations.
 
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