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Originally Posted by BaldHeadedJohn  This is probably the wrong place to post this- if it is I am sorry.
All replys are welcome, and I'll state up front that a debate is NOT my intention.
I was sober since Sept 21, and I started to drink again this past weekend. Now I'm on a 3 day bender. I'm not sure why- probably boredom, frustration, most likely it's because I'm a drunk.
I've attended AA in the past. I've read the Big Book, and I can identify with some of it. Not all of it. I've also read "Beyond the Influence" and "Above the Influence", and I realize that I do have a disease, despite what I may have said in previous posts.
I need some help. I can't believe everything that I've read in the BB, and I know that I can't keep drinking. Does anyone have any suggestions for someone like me who thinks that a higher power is not a "He" or a "Him"?
Thanks in advance;
BHJ
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I mean can I go back to AA? Will I be accepted even though I don't subscribe to some of the tenets? |
I like to think-and I'm sure the founding fathers of AA would agree-that you can distill AA into a very simple formula,
don't drink, live an examined life, serve others. We need people struggling to remind of us of the cunning, baffling and powerful nature of our disease. Keep coming back.