Originally Posted by
andyh 
Gerald
by nature of it not being AVRT, then obviously there are going to be elements of AV in the method. having it pointed out in every post by you & others is no more useful than if someone was pointing out, for example, "powerlessness" in every post, & it was the reason the thread ended up being locked, as well as being deeply tedious.
I would have thought some of the comments, for example the "barmaid's apron" comment, whoever made that, broke the sub-Forum rules:
https://www.soberrecovery.com/forums...rum-rules.html (Secular Forum Rules) "Mocking other programs is not permitted ..."
Andy
Smocking , perhaps?
Isn’t there an SR wide ban on promoting use , which this method clearly does? Perhaps discussion of it is entirely verboten?
One of the authors self identifies as having been an addict in treatment and then unhappily abstinent for years , but after presumably applying this methodology is now a happy moderate level user.
Not pointing that out as an ad hominem, more in the line of consider the source.
Feeling bullied is one thing, feeling fooled carries the extra sting of having done it to yourself.