This site might well have saved my life. I despise dogma, don't believe in God, can't stand slogans, need to figure things out for myself, loathe ritual, turned off by any hint of self-righteousness -- in short, AA is not for me. Not to say that AA's a bad thing -- anything that keeps people off the booze and gets them on the road to healing is good -- but it doesn't work for me. In the past 13 years, I've never been sober for as long as I have since I found this place (two weeks today -- YEAH!!!).
Here I found information, found support without all the ritual and gobbledygook. For me it's been godsend (so to speak), but I'm still a newb.