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findingout · 08-05-2005, 03:30 AM

Hey betterdayz,

You would be welcome at any of the three A.A. meetings I attend because you have a desire to stop drinking and that is the only requirement for membership. Individual members of an individual A.A. meeting are not A.A. So of course, I am not A.A. either but in my opinion the twelve steps in N.A. are the same twelve steps in A.A. Only one of those steps actually mentions not using/not drinking. The other eleven in either program make the assumption that you have stopped using drugs (and as you know alchohol IS a drug) and have the desire to change in ways that have either everything or nothing to do with not using.

My drug of no choice was alcohol but my experience so far with both N.A. and A.A. is that all of us are people who had to have something different and thought we had found it in drugs. The desire for something different and the real consequences of pursuing it in all the wrong directions give us way more in common than any artificial walls we put up to keep us apart.

One Love, One Heart,
Tony

08-05-2005, 03:30 AM	#6 (permalink)
findingout Not the center of the Universe Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Orchard Lake, Michigan Posts: 909	Hey betterdayz, You would be welcome at any of the three A.A. meetings I attend because you have a desire to stop drinking and that is the only requirement for membership. Individual members of an individual A.A. meeting are not A.A. So of course, I am not A.A. either but in my opinion the twelve steps in N.A. are the same twelve steps in A.A. Only one of those steps actually mentions not using/not drinking. The other eleven in either program make the assumption that you have stopped using drugs (and as you know alchohol IS a drug) and have the desire to change in ways that have either everything or nothing to do with not using. My drug of no choice was alcohol but my experience so far with both N.A. and A.A. is that all of us are people who had to have something different and thought we had found it in drugs. The desire for something different and the real consequences of pursuing it in all the wrong directions give us way more in common than any artificial walls we put up to keep us apart. One Love, One Heart, Tony __________________ Yes, I am an alcoholic. But that's not all that I am...