Originally Posted by
Algorithm 
Two things I have always found very strange is people competing over their bottoms, and waxing ever more poetically as sober time is accumulated and brandished. I don't believe it helps anyone in the grand scheme of things to buy into a hierarchy based on either metric.
I'm on the fence about the emphasis placed on time in AA. On the one hand I believe sobriety is one day at a time. On the other I think it is important for the newcomer to realize one can achieve long term sobriety. My first meeting a member talked about having ten years sober. Ten years! He might as well have said he went to the moon.
The most I ever had was maybe three weeks but I believed him. I didn't think he was lying.