Originally Posted by
onlythetruth 
My disagreement with the concept of "powerlessness" is the notion that the power to quit drinking comes from an outside force. I also don't care for the proposition that this power is bestowed by the outside force on a daily basis "contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition."
Fair enough... not everyone
is powerless and not everyone's life
is unmanageable. And certainly, not everyone needs to find a HP to be relieved of their alcohol problem. If you're able to control your drinking problem with human-based help, you're not the type of drinker / alcoholic that AA was created to help.
For what it's worth, I didn't care for that stuff myself.....but I discovered it to be
my truth - I
am powerless over alcohol and nothing I tried relieved me of that problem.....until I went to a power Greater than myself.
Obviously, there are different types of drinkers. Not everyone is (thankfully) a
real alcoholic (aka: a chronic alcoholic who's also lost the power of choice).