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Old 04-01-2019, 10:29 PM
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DaveNZ
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Join Date: Apr 2019
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It can be hard to get comfortable in AA because by its very nature it is going to be a poor fit to most. AA was conceived in 1939 by and for; white, middle aged, middle class, christian, men. When it was written in 1939 there was no neuroscience and nearly no psychology... and then there's the whole God thing.

But that all makes it too tempting to throw the baby out with the bathwater. AA has some excellent advantages too: it's free, it's widely available, it places you immediately inside a large support group, and strange as some of the 12 steps appear, most of them are actually therapeutically worthwhile.

I guess the best way is try to bend yourself a little to be able to take advantage of the benefits offered. That's what I do anyway. The rest I just let wash past my ears... it helps others, so I don't need to interfere with it, just let it past.
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