About going to meetings...one idea only..."Don't Give Up" That is it, and that is the secret.

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6. I'm sorry, but I didn't find it was working for me after awhile --

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we are not all the same, and each of us is just as right or wrong in deciding what is best for ourselves as anybody else.

I increasingly felt that a program based on endless proselytization about a prayer-answering favor-dispensing deity was just not helpful to me. How could people believe that some cosmic loving Santa Claus is looking out for wealthy American alcoholics while millions of children starve? (I'm sorry, but that was the kind of obtuseness that I heard at most meetings).

Your meetings may have been entirely different, and thank goodness. I've noticed that there is an enormous difference between meetings locally and regionally, based on what's been described to me, and my limited experience outside of Twin Cities meetings.

But that's just me. Its up to each of us to decide -- what kind of meetings -- secular or deity-spiritualism or not -- ativan or not -- prozac or not -- etc.

Each of us is free and welcome and encouraged to share what works for each of us. Its just that when some particular path is pushed on me as being the only right way or the only way that works -- that's when my hackles get hackled up. Especially when it involves some deity that is some errand boy doing favors for wealthy American alcoholics while millions starve.