Originally Posted by
sortofhomecomin 
To be totally frank I'm really taken aback that any AA member, particularly one with 28 years sobriety, would suggest controlled drinking to another member.
I guess I have an open mind as to whether alcoholism is a disease or, as you put aptly put it, "habit forming resulting from deeper psychological issues and medicating those". But I simply don't accept the idea of a "spiritual disease" as claimed in AA's big book. It has no logical or scientific validity.
I was actually shocked when he suggested it because I was trying to talk outside of AA logic. I guess after 27 years of AA that stuff sorta gets ingrained. I def don't get the spiritual disease which was probably why I needed to switch gears. I don't believe god will keep me sober, my own doing and undoing is completely in my hands.