cristis wrote:Don't want to offend anyone, but I've been at several AA meetings this week and I think no one there, in three different groups, had a college degree. People are nice and I have nothing bad to say about anyone, but it will be hard to find someone like me if we don't speak the same language. One of my main reasons for drinking is loneliness, and obviously I was looking forward to socialize more.
Therefore, the main problem of the alcoholic centers in his mind, rather than in his body. If you ask him why he started on that last bender, the chances are he will offer you any one of a hundred alibis. Sometimes these excuses have a certain plausibility, but none of them really makes sense in the light of the havoc an alcoholic's drinking bout creates. They sound like the philosophy of the man who, having a headache, beats himself on the head with a hammer so that he can't feel the ache. If you draw this fallacious reasoning to the attention of an alcoholic, he will laugh it off, or become irritated and refuse to talk.
I will never forget the first meeting that I attended. There were five people present, including myself. At one end of the table sat our community butcher. At the other side of the table sat one of the carpenters in our community, and at the further end of the table sat the man who ran the bakery, while on one side sat my friend who was a mechanic. I recall, as I walked into that meeting, saying to myself, "Here I am, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a Fellow of the International College of Surgeons, a diplomat of one of the great specialty boards in these United States, a member of the American Psychiatric Society, and I have to go to the butcher, the baker and the carpenter to help make a man out of me!"
One of my main reasons for drinking is loneliness, and obviously I was looking forward to socialize more.
positrac wrote:Maybe if you read what you initially said...
positrac wrote:We drunks are sensitive ...
cristis wrote:positrac wrote:Maybe if you read what you initially said...
Please let it go. You've been the first one to make things up to insult me, starting with that "education shouldn't be a reason to make excuses on why you have an alcohol problem" (where in God's name I said anything like this?!!!). For all the fuzz n buzz with acceptance, ego, humility and inclusion, you proved how intolerant and close minded you could be when the time comes.positrac wrote:We drunks are sensitive ...
If you're such a recovered alcoholic as you claim, I should bring you the steps and show you how many points you broke.
cristis wrote:Just FYI, I already stay in touch with two guys I've met here...
positrac wrote:...you'll see that we all are trying in our way to educate...
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