2022-08-10 at 6:38 PM UTC
It was all too "woe is me" for my taste. A real depressing bunch they are.
2022-08-10 at 7:03 PM UTC
Originally posted by mmQ
Will you tell us the story of your first meeting ever? Do you remember it?
A young guy (19) who worked for me at my last job asked me to be his sponsor. I didn't know anything about it but ended up going to some meetings...Not 100% they were official AA meetings...NA or some other independent meeting perhaps...anyway we were all sat in a circle (about 15 or so) and they were doing the name thing..he stood up and say "My name is XXXX and my drug of choice is lean"...everyone clapped (except me).
After he sat down I whispered "what the fuck is lean"...he said "cough medicine"...I laughed.
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2022-08-10 at 7:36 PM UTC
I'm busy but I will tell me story. it was voluntary but it was also with a motive because I didn't want the judge to make AA part of my probation. So I put myself in before my court date so I would look better. I think it worked because my AA wasn't court mandated and didn't need signatures.
2022-08-10 at 8:35 PM UTC
His attempted suicide at every major meeting?
What's that mean?
2022-08-10 at 8:46 PM UTC
I have never been to an AA meeting because I am not an alcoholic.
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2022-08-10 at 9:29 PM UTC
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[my hereto riemannian peach]
I thought I posted ITT but I didn't. The place jigs went sounds better than an NA bit definitely wasn't. I went quite a bit when in house arrest and didn't mind going to get out the house. I even chaired a meeting in prism before which I didn't like doing so much. You take the good with the bad, there are good things about it which have proven success and things which are gay and retarded and I've honestly gone to many meetings were I felt worse after and wanted to do drugs I don't even normally do
Because of the structure it attracts weirdos and simpletons but its ultimately a positive and useful program which has saved lives. Can't really knock it, it's probably helped more people than UNICEF even if it's kinda dumb at face value
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2022-08-10 at 9:41 PM UTC
i have never been addicted to anything
2022-08-10 at 11:53 PM UTC
I don't like AA meetings but I do go to them semi regularly, I have had a sponsor but while doing step 4 i refused to tell him about all the crimes and wrongs i've done to others citing my belief in omerta, one guy tried to bully me into doing it so I stopped going, didn't need it to stay sober IMO.
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2022-08-11 at 3:11 AM UTC
I forgot about the 100 meetings in 100 days thing. It seems a little overboard (addictive) to me but hey folks and strokes right? I've probably been to 71 meetings total which isn't even that many really. Probably two of them were not court mandated. I hate most police officers thank you
2022-08-11 at 3:26 AM UTC
Originally posted by mmQ
I forgot about the 100 meetings in 100 days thing. It seems a little overboard (addictive) to me but hey folks and strokes right? I've probably been to 71 meetings total which isn't even that many really. Probably two of them were not court mandated. I hate most police officers thank you
People who need to go to a meeting every single day in order to stay sober aren't really ready to quit anyways.
AA thinks you should swap ur addiction to booze with addiction to their cult, their cringe little one-liners and regurgitated lines from a poorly written book based on medical understanding of the 1950s
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