I thought he had to believe in a higher power.
Does it matter what the higher power is? Can it be aliens, Cthulu, Satan, etc?
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I have a friend who goes to AA, but doesn't believe in God
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I have a friend who goes to AA, but doesn't believe in God |
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Lester Burnham |
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2.gives 3.flying 4.fuck 5.mister |
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Posts: 16562 (08/02/08 5:34 PM) |
Run, Lester. Run.
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superguppie |
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Posts: 23652 (08/02/08 5:34 PM) Registered user |
Maybe he puts his faith in Mr. Slippery.
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Posts: 1025 (08/02/08 5:35 PM) Registered User |
I think they say a higher power as it exists to YOU...which is not necessarily God in the Christian sense.
But I forgot everything from AA once I started the shock treatments. |
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Posts: 791 (08/02/08 5:36 PM) |
Yes, it can be anything.
Step 2: We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Step 3: We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him. While the word "God" is often used, newcomers are encouraged to think of it in a generic term. I've known alcoholics and addicts who have used a rock as their higher power. Stupid to me, but if it keeps someone from using alcohol or dope, then whatever. From the AA website: If the alcoholic in your life shrinks from the idea that a formal code of behavior will be required, you can put his or her mind at ease. Each member uses the Steps in an individual way. The Steps are suggested program of recovery. Although experience shows that many A.A. members' comfort in sobriety depends, to an extent, on their understanding and acceptance of the Steps, no A.A. member is forced to accept or even read them. It is up to the individual to decide when and how the Steps, will be used. |
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Posts: 1026 (08/02/08 5:37 PM) Registered User |
Xenu will help your friend.
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ItsAlanisbitch |
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Posts: 419 (08/02/08 5:37 PM) |
Xenu is the enemy!
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Posts: 1027 (08/02/08 5:40 PM) Registered User |
"Help me Jesus! Help me Tom Cruise!"
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Tres Gay |
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Posts: 3757 (08/02/08 5:45 PM) Registered user |
There are at least two people on this board who accepted my suggestion that they use my sweet little dog, Bandit, as their higher power. She is pure love,
kind, sweet, and cute as can be.
The bitch of it is that their higher power is an almost 19 yo dog and is bound to die eventually. I will suggest a replacement higher power when the time comes. |
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Posts: 38 (08/02/08 5:51 PM) |
I found this online too:
I, also, have heard of people using the collective or AA as a higher power. Good Ole Drunks or Group of Drunks they call them. |
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Posts: 3166 (08/02/08 5:51 PM) Registered user |
I once heard someone using his refrigerator as his higher power because the fridge can keep things cold and he can't.
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Posts: 39 (08/02/08 5:57 PM) |
It must be awkward saying the Lord's Prayer or the Serenity Prayer at the end of a meeting if your higher power is a rock.
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Posts: 8295 (08/02/08 6:14 PM) Registered User |
So there is no hope of recovery for atheists or existentialists.
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Posts: 5170 (08/02/08 6:23 PM) |
AA as in a drinking problem? Or are you talking about something else? To get a drinking problem, you don't need to believe in a higher power. Infact this
beleif in a higher power is a bunch of brainwashing. Nobody is higher power than we are, we all rot or burn to ashes after we die and that's it. It's
sad, but it's true. Also for those you love, they will always be alive in yout heart as long as it's beating and in your mind for as long as it
remembers. There are people I LOVE that I do look at as amazing people, but these people are real people that I've known in my life time... they arnt make
believe.
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Posts: 1032 (08/02/08 6:36 PM) Registered User |
StarringAmy wrote:
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Posts: 8300 (08/02/08 6:39 PM) Registered User |
To get a drinking problem, you don't need to believe in a higher power.Then how do we account for the last 1,500 years of the history of Ireland? |
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If the flight attendants may talk to you, you can't raise a voice inside the airplane.
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StarringAmy |
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Posts: 5174 (08/02/08 6:49 PM) |
Sigvold wrote: Yay I have Irish in me! <3 What are you talking about? |
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Posts: 1419 (08/02/08 7:03 PM) Registered user |
Tres,
What breed is God? |
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