Originally Posted by nolonger
I could sit in an AA meeting and wheel out Voltaire and Feuerbach and Darwin and all the rest, but what would be the point? Either people would respond with exactly the “blind faith” you refer to, or else (maybe) they would wheel out Augustine and St. Paul and Kierkegaard and Albert Einstein and I don’t know who else.
Originally Posted by paulmh
Nolonger expresses a profound philosophical sentiment - and my first degree was in philosophy, so I should know, shouldn't I? - which goes to the heart of alcoholism, as I choose to understand it, and it is this.
Shut the f*** up.
LOL, whoah now. Though I'm sure you are not directing that toward me or others like me, I do take offense.
This is a secular subforum in which we share diverse roads to recovery--not one of debate. Right?
I was describing
my journey - nothing more.
Certainly nothing less!
-TCD-