Everything But AA
Good post Debaucher,
The contemporary mantra of don't drink, go to meetings and ask for help goes counter to everything I have experienced, I can't reconcile that statement anywhere in my Big Book.
AA does one thing, offer the hopeless drunk a solution. To recover from alcoholism a psychic change needs to occur just not drinking, going to meetings, and asking for help will not produce this. A price has to be paid.
As Jim pointed out, everything points or at least should direct our attention to that which can and will solve our problem, A God of our understanding. In AA the steps are the only way, it is the only program of recovery we have to offer. I am sure there are other ways, I only know this path, as it has saved my life, some folks believe they have a right to "share" anything they feel like dumping at a meeting. In this drunk's opinion, this is selfishness and self centered to the core and kills people who are dying to hear the solution.