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"I just finished the book. What a trip. He did it again.
Jim M"
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Thank you,Welcome to the SKMB @Jim M
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"I just finished the book. What a trip. He did it again.
Jim M"
That'll work where he regularly goes. But it must be difficult for any famous person when not at home, feeling the need of support, to walk in to a room where everyone is supposed to be anonymous....and without a mask, he can't be.Entirely an assumption on my part but my guess is he's "just Steve" at meetings.
I admire SK's honesty about his struggles. AM, I (respectfully) disagree about his hitting bottom. 'Canny' and 'Mama' were so horrific to him, the bruises, on baby and his Mama, and Danstealing from the mama, or perhaps considering to permit the baby to go into the drug thinking it may be a quicker (and more humane way to die) than to starved and beaten to death over the next 18 months by a caretaker[/Spoiler] was mortified to visit this aspect of himself. It is why he held on to that and didn`t tell his sponsor.I appreciated the glimpse of AA. King, again bringing it home to regular people.
AA religious underpinnings
They/it (the God stuff) can be ignored by new members.
There is very little "god talk" at any given meeting . A new person
can find a sponsor that either is heavily INTO the God stuff or
find a sponsor that is Agnostic.
the GOD stuff should never keep anyone away from AA.
A person can take it or leave it ...as they wish
Well, hello young lady.
Im afaid I cant follow what your saying very well. But; yes there IS some God talk at
any givin meeting, and its woveb inot the step.
There ARE SOME people that will think/believe and "say" that a person is not
"geetting better" unless they are "DOWN" with the God stuff.
These people are few in my experience and I simply avoid them.
we all know::
there are thousands of AA/NA folks who have been clean and sober for years and
are either Agnostic-atheists or 'believers' who want Little or nothing to do with
{religion}. Many of us "were Plum DISGUSTED by religion and all its works"
(including Dr. Bob)
I feel disgusted reading about the people in your story that think 911 was
some how "God Will". (My disgust is not as great as my befuddlement.)
THAT is not the God of my understanding.
I know people that will tell other they are not "really" in recovery Unless they
have done This or finished That, or in "believe in" something they believe in.
One guy , 22 years sober, told me I wasnt "really" clean and sober because...
I am still smoking ... ''Winstons"
I avoid these folks, and avoid their meeting if need be, Its not that hard.
Look people, AA had just as many A-wh0le$ and jerks as the rest of the
population...More really...but you CANT let them drive you away from
the good folks.
***everyone:
If you think you wanna "check out AA" ...
the ONLY REQUIERMENT FOR MEMBERSHIP
is a desire to stop drinking.
nothing else need concern you.
It means that your message has been altered in some way (something added/or subtracted) by a moderator.What does it mean when it says a post of yours was edited by a moderator?
Just wondering.
Hi everyone! Hope you guys had fantastic hollidays. Happy New Year to each one of you.
I am currently reading french translation of Dr. Sleep and I find this novel so completly awesome. That being said, I'm not an AA member, but my husband is ( and not ashamed of it ). He's been sober for nearly 30 years now. So I am glad to see the many references about AA and how it's painted in the book. Everything is so accurate ( the big book, the meetings, the mentors, the way alcoolics are describded and their sufferings. Dan Torrance is gifted with his ''shining'', but he's also human and tormented. He's a fantastic exemple on how people with great intelligence and big potentiel could also have to struggle every day of their life to stay away from alcool or other subtences. SK wrote a great novel and he probably helped at the same time people who are addicted to those. My husband is not a reader, but I read parts where AA is mentionned to him, and he agreed that the program is very well describded. Dr. Sleep is truely a book of reference as well as a fascinating work of art. Love it!!!