13
November
Top Ten Reasons To Run From Alcoholics Anonymous
Quit now, or if you haven’t started, don’t! Here are the top ten reasons.
Duration : 0:5:34
Tags: 12, addiction, alcoholics, Alcoholism, anonymous, cults, dogma, Drinking, step
November 13th, 2009 at 4:09 am
Ha ha, Thanks for …
Ha ha, Thanks for the laugh.
November 13th, 2009 at 4:09 am
I’m an ex-AA member …
I’m an ex-AA member. Sober for 18 years. Not powerless. Don’t need ‘god’. Don’t have a ‘disease’. Just made dumb choices repeatedly. Now I don’t.
November 13th, 2009 at 4:09 am
You don’t HAVE to …
You don’t HAVE to do anything you don’t want to. Good sponsors RECOMMEND & tell you their own experience. Good sponsors are not nannies, nor psychiatrist, surely don’t have all the answers & don’t command you to do anything.
The problem lies in people. Those who take it in a dogmatic way & preach dogma – just like misguided religion. Dogmatism exists in AA – it’s a human thing – that doesn’t make it into anything, it’s how you perceive it.
November 13th, 2009 at 4:09 am
So AA is like a …
So AA is like a typical cult?
November 13th, 2009 at 4:09 am
load of nonsense. …
load of nonsense. You don’t have to do anything.
November 13th, 2009 at 4:09 am
You’re passing lies …
You’re passing lies to people that AA could help. AA does not recruit people, it does not claim to be the only way to sobriety, in fact it says it isn’t. You might have had a bad experience, but more likely you just prefer drinking to getting sober. PPL, go to a meeting and judge for youself, this guy is full of it.
November 13th, 2009 at 4:09 am
Great video. …
Great video. Points 10 and 9 made me laugh. Went to AA and didn’t like it at all. Now I’m doing it by myself.
November 13th, 2009 at 4:09 am
Actually, the …
Actually, the success rate of AA is roughly two and a half percent. Success being defined as complete abstinence from drinking. Regardless, many of the points made in this vid are somewhat correct. Bill W. being a womanizer who begged for booze on his deathbed? That sounds a bit ‘National Enquirer’ to me.
I do have to say also that to make light of Bill’s dishonesty, etc.. doesn’t really change much. MOST people who suffered from chronic addiction engaged in a variety of unsavory acts..
November 13th, 2009 at 4:09 am
I’d rather do 90 …
I’d rather do 90 meetings in 90 days, than drink 90 bottles of Vodka in 90 days like I used to.
November 13th, 2009 at 4:09 am
I’ve had …
I’ve had conversations with Jim Christopher, founder of SOS, and he tells people that if they can’t contact another SOS member that they should just go to an AA meeting. They’re all over.
November 13th, 2009 at 4:09 am
That’s actually …
That’s actually crap. The only thing that can be said about meeting makers is that they go to meetings.
PS: When the book was written you couldn’t go to a meeting unless you were ’sponsored’ in.
November 13th, 2009 at 4:09 am
LOL some of this …
LOL some of this might be true but we alkie’s in A.A. can laugh at this stuff because we learned to laugh at ourselves. We let the pride go and humbled oursleves and can laugh about it. So what? What’s the big deal? It’s all good. I can think of one good reason not to run from A.A. and it’s called death. Go visit a hospital ICU and find the people dying from liver failure from drinking…it’s not a pretty site.
November 13th, 2009 at 4:09 am
The biggest flaw …
The biggest flaw with the 12 Steps–and this is a fatal flaw–is that they misdiagnose the supposed alcoholic. The true and accurate diagnosis of an alcoholic isn’t “alcoholism;” it’s “compuslive behavior.” The drinking is just one expression of an entire compulsive lifestyle that the average alcoholic engages in. To be truly successful in recovery, then, the end goal must be not simply to quit drinking but, rather, to learn to live life on a non-compulsive basis.
November 13th, 2009 at 4:09 am
I expected more out …
I expected more out of this.
As a recovering addict/alkie of 16 + yrs I find this video bizzare to say the least..
The narrator uses all the key phrases and apperently doesnt have the cojones to take the steps to change his own life.
Uses AA to try to promote whatever…
Lame, dude.
Least ya told people if they have a problem to try to get help.
November 13th, 2009 at 4:09 am
this is funny and …
this is funny and ill keep going to AA because I ENJOY IT you remind me of those preachers who take lines out of the bible to make your point sound right,this is funny because i know the real truth 15 years clean and sober and I ENJOY IT.
November 13th, 2009 at 4:09 am
There is some truth …
There is some truth in this but aa does work he is wrong there
November 13th, 2009 at 4:09 am
Thanks for taking …
Thanks for taking the time to make this video. It has helped me reconsider some of my own thinking. I love AA and have been sober 27 years. HOWEVER, I am part of a strong and growing movement within AA that is challenging the AA culture and it’s belief systems. I have enjoyed your responses to the various comments. I might have said many of those things myself.
November 13th, 2009 at 4:09 am
I have been to 89 …
I have been to 89 meetings. and my father was an old timer so was my grand father. They were both war vet’s.
they drank, and lived to be old men. I guess thats how it was back then, but now a days everyone has something wrong with them.
November 13th, 2009 at 4:09 am
90 meetings in 90 …
90 meetings in 90 days got me 90 white chips
November 13th, 2009 at 4:09 am
LOL yeah lady …
LOL yeah lady genevieve I think is being sarcastic if she aint its a great reason to avoid aa
November 13th, 2009 at 4:09 am
Dude, you have been …
Dude, you have been seriously miss informed about AA! What type of sponsor did you get, and where did you go to meetings? If I were you I would run like from AA as well! MOST IMPORTANTLY, you are doing the right thing by posting these video’s about AA if this is what you think AA is!!!
November 13th, 2009 at 4:09 am
Oh jezus, jeeezus …
Oh jezus, jeeezus christ…..
November 13th, 2009 at 4:09 am
Goodness! We are …
Goodness! We are NEVER serious, dear! It is against the Program. Don’t you know about the 5 HALTS ? We must avoid being Hungry Angry Lonely Tired and Serious! My sponsor told me that. Proof that our sponsors must be divinely inspired, dear.
November 13th, 2009 at 4:09 am
Probably you’re …
Probably you’re drimking again, are’nt you?
November 13th, 2009 at 4:09 am
There are …
There are alternative support groups such as RR, SOS, Lifering, WFS/MFS, SMART, or just on your own. 0% effectiveness means that AA’s recovery rate does not exceed the recovery rate for those who quit without treatment.