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FirstLight

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1. Sober Since Oct 2023!! NO AA!

Wed Jun 11, 2025, 11:07 AM

Jun 11

I have never liked them, too preachy, too focused on how we're all just fucked up and can never get better. I hate something that says you are "in recovery" forever...no, I believe that you CAN grow beyond your addictions and broken pieces...and it's THERAPY, LOTS OF IT that does the heavy lifting. NO magic god is gonna absolve you and make you whole...

Had a BF back in college get busted for weed and they sent him to NA. It was all well and good for him, till he told me at some point our whole relationship never 'counted' because he was smoking ot at the time. It was so hurtful! we were engaged and he was one of the loves of my life... sad that he became a god freak and decided to get holier than thou with everyone.

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Crooks and Liars is celebrating the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous, I'm not. [View all] Archae Jun 11 OP

Sober Since Oct 2023!! NO AA! FirstLight Jun 11 #1

My opinions also. Archae Jun 11 #2

They prime people for relapse IbogaProject Jun 11 #3

You can damn AA all you want Jilly_in_VA Jun 11 #4

Sure, Hornedfrog2000 Jun 11 #10

That's my biggest gripe also. Archae Jun 11 #13

You are 100% right, but folks are gonna argue with you on this obamanut2012 Jun 11 #5

So I've noticed already. Archae Jun 11 #6

They helped me for a time to get my footing dlilafae Jun 11 #7

You've had a strange obsession with this. Tommy Carcetti Jun 11 #8

I am an Army-trained drug and alcohol NCO jmowreader Jun 11 #9

The problem with AA is they are not science based Mosby Jun 11 #11

AA Provides Human Contact Starbeach Jun 11 #12

My son got a DUI and I had to go to an AA meeting with him. spanone Jun 11 #14

Exactly. AA is founded on a fundamentalist Christian basis. Archae Jun 11 #15

I had no idea at the time. spanone Jun 11 #16