http://aa-a-gogo.com/2006/09/19/those-who-have-thoroughly-followed-our-path/ Learn how to survive Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Step program. Using my 16 years of sobriety, this blog will teach you (1) who will benefit from working the 12 steps program and (2, more inportantly) who will get RUINED by working the 12 steps! I will teach you How to succeed in the 12 step Fellowship. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:18:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 http://aa-a-gogo.com/2006/09/19/those-who-have-thoroughly-followed-our-path/#comment-429 sojerseydeedee Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:07:21 +0000 http://aa-a-gogo.com/2006/09/19/those-who-have-thoroughly-followed-our-path/#comment-429 Harry, I am one of those people who also followed the Big Buk to a tee. I worked all of the twelve steps to the best of my ability in the order in which they were written. Fifteen years later I am smacked with the reality that AA doesn't work for me in real life situations. No matter. I am getting over the shock and anger of my wasted years in AA. I am also, like you, cognisant of the fact that AA did get me sober. It simply doesn't work as a way of life forever. It is spiritual kindergarten for sick people. Getting truly well, or better, necessitates moving on and out of AA, or at least having a minimal involvement, unless one looks back just to help another new comer. I am finding that when I talk to some of my acquaitances in AA, they start yelling "yes, yes" when i state my views of how aa can be harmful. We all begin to know it, but fear won't allow us to look at it. Anyway, I am glad I came to question AA as a whole. Lots of good people, but eventually we must realize that something is very, very wrong here. Harry, I am one of those people who also followed the Big Buk to a tee. I worked all of the twelve steps to the best of my ability in the order in which they were written. Fifteen years later I am smacked with the reality that AA doesn’t work for me in real life situations. No matter. I am getting over the shock and anger of my wasted years in AA. I am also, like you, cognisant of the fact that AA did get me sober. It simply doesn’t work as a way of life forever. It is spiritual kindergarten for sick people. Getting truly well, or better, necessitates moving on and out of
AA, or at least having a minimal involvement, unless one looks back just to help another new comer. I am finding that when I talk to some of my acquaitances in AA, they start yelling “yes, yes” when i state my views of how aa can be harmful. We all begin to know it, but fear won’t allow us to look at it. Anyway, I am glad I came to question AA as a whole. Lots of good people, but eventually we must realize that something is very, very wrong here.

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