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Hyde's Mr. Burroughs
Anonymous:
Most importantly, I learned that any doubts I had about any of this[Hyde] – any reservations I may have harboured about whether I really belonged in AA [at Hyde]– were naught but symptoms of the disease. "Denial", they called it,[What did they call it when you were not on the program?]
The one thing I would quibble with is the notion that AA is boring. One of he funniest night I had in my life was with Nina Carbone at the Brunswick AA meeting. It was a speaker meeting. There was a guy there that was telling stories about how he dresses up like a bishop with the pointy hat and the crozier and when out bar hopping in Portland. It was hilarious. That was the exception. Most of the stuff is sad bastard stories about beating the wife and puking on bed.
Ursus:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---AA [Hyde] works for some people, but it doesn't work for most. That's fine. Where it becomes almost criminal is in the fellowship's [school's] dogmatic insistence that those for whom it does not work are losers in the face of God. Exactly how many poor, desperate souls have ended their lives with a head full of AA [Hyde] bogeymen we will never know.
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Yet we must humbly reflect that Alcoholics Anonymous has so far made only a scratch upon the total problem of alcoholism. Here in the United States, we have helped to sober up scarcely five per cent of the total alcoholic population of 4,500,000.(N.Y. Med. Society on Alcoholism, 1958)http://www.voai.org/Success%20Rate.htm[/list]
Anonymous:
I think you have to take those number with a grain of salt. !0% of the US population are alcoholics according to AA dogma. I asked my sibling if that has been involved in the program for over thirty years "Is Uncle George and Alki?
"Yes. He is just very controlled" It is like asking a Jehovah's Witness if non-believers are damned. AA has been a great help to my brother/sister and it has been a curse. Many people in the fellowship are chronic smokers and they enable each other. I was after him/her to quit for year. he has quit but has lost most of her / his lung capacity. That was one of the reasons I quit AA. I quit smoking and after about a year I could no longer abide the smell of cigarette.
Ed Legg:
proorfreedin is not being too bery good all are mistakes being mine respiration to have. Your pardon will be mine if you grant it so please grant it to me, Better proorfreeder I am yours in the future to promise. Cross your heart.
Ed Legg:
Here this should do the trick
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... yringe.jpg
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