>When I go to AA meetings I don't feel nuts. When I go to meetings I feel it.
Well, DUH ! Get your ass to a meeting NOW!
>But when they get going about the higher power they drive me away.
Can't you just consider the higher power The Sober Mind and move on? Or if the meetings you are going to seems to skew in a religious direction, find on that doesn't? Do you really think you are the only drunk who has theological issues? This idea of "Yah, that's fine for those other alcoholics but I'm special" is a big stumbling block.
Call your sponsor and a taxi - point the taxi at a meeting !
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>I absolutely believe it when they say this is a progressive disease that can kill you.
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>I am a terrible person when I drink. I hope that's only when.
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>There is a woman I like in the group. She smiles a lot. She always comes in late. She speaks frankly but not theatrically I like everything about her. She is an alcoholic, like me, but she smiles and laughs easily. She is working hard at staying sober. I like her.
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>Who cares what a drunk thinks? How worthless is that, even at Christmas?
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
