Originally Posted by
Zube 
Let me begin by stating that AA saved my life. Still does.
However, I cannot help but notice many contraditions within AA.
Just heard a glaring one at a first-step meeting last night. One oldtimer in the room suggested to the newcomer that the first thing he needs to do is to "change everything about himself", and another oldtimer a few chairs down suggested "don't make any major life changes in your first year of sobriety".
HUH!?
Anybody else notice contradictions within AA?
Thanks for sharing,
Zube
To me changing everything about myself is to get rid of my plan for living which got me here to AA. (Thank you Sandy B. AA speaker 12 step saturday morning series)
The only thing I have to change is everything about the way I lived when it comes to me and my drinking.
The other statement about not making any big changes in the first year's implication is with regard to outside/other issues...like pulling a geographic, ending or starting a serious personal relationship...
I don't see these two as contradictions.
To me they are seperate directions/suggestions.
Everything needs to change, yet with care and caution, guidance from our big book, God, sponsors, and their experience.