Re: *A: Will it die?

[Guest guest]

Hi Alan,

I went thru the same dilemna as you are going thru about drinking so I

wrote Dr. Peele. He replied that I was really brainwashed by AA. That

fear of going off the deep end with alcohol was implanted by AA. So I

figure as long as a part of you believes that then you are in danger of

living out AA's prophecy. Dr. Peele also said that if you find you

cannot control your drinking then go to abstaining. AA used to say we

might never return to sobriety if we took that plunge, I now know that

is just another AA lie, there is no reason why you couldn't go back to

abstinance if you choose to. Also Dr. Peele said you have to change

your behaviour towards drinking, which AA never taught you (they just

teach abstinance). This is the hard part, why you over drink, learning

to set limits and on and on. Check out his FAQ list, you will find my

question. Anyway after almost twenty years of sobriety about half of

those in AA I decided to drink again. No problems for me anyway and

it's been about eight months. Funny thing about it is I did not start

up where I left off, I now have a very low tolerance, a glass and a

half of wine is my limit. I drink about three times a month. But I

have read that people who spent a long time in AA are less successful

at moderating then those who never went to AA. That brainwashing is

pretty powerful. I do think drinking makes your life a little more

complicated, anyway hope this helped. Suzy

original article:/group/12-step-free/?start=9717

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>

> ...Big Book reads like a mediocre article from the 1939 Readers

Digest. The

> good thing is this may accelerate the unraveling of AA. The

hardliners won't

> allow anyone to change a word in the Big Book, and in a few years

it's going

> to be as impenetrable to the average reader (or non-reader)as the

King

> Bible...

>

[Guest guest]

Hey ,

Just a thought, you may want to visit www.rational.org/recovery. Of

course you may be one of the Trimpey loathers, in which case ignore this post.