Originally Posted by
SoberJennie 
Nice. What wisdom. And ultimately uninspiring... The lesson here seems to be once the downtrodden get sober via AA they'll sometimes wear AA blinders forever...
I fought using AA for years because I thought "they" were too narrow-minded.
When I finally tried everything else I could possibly think of, I tried their steps. They didn't exactly work for me right away, so I gave up completely.
Low-and-behold, when I surrendered ALL of my expectations, the promises described in the Big Book started to kick in like a turbo-charged engine. Not only did I get all of the promises, my experience matched the Big Book description almost verbatim.
It's hard to argue with results. Specially such prolific results. The question you need to ask before bashing AA is "How's your way working for you?"
If it is working? When it comes to AA - fogetabotit!
P.S. I never surrendered my thinking. I still read Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.