Yeah, but if you do not do AA you do not get a coin. I have been sober 30 years this month, unless you count 2 zimas, and a sip of a fuzzy navel, then 20 years, and I never got no coin.
Ooooh! I'll make you a 3d printed coin. I can probably mail it cheap too. Like regular snail mail. Or you can get it printed to a buddy with 3d printer. Let me do a design.
That would be awesome. However I am in the states, I have no idea what kind of shipping we would be looking at from Canada any longer. Maybe just an STL, I can get someone in town to print it for me.
My understanding is that they encourage a recognition of a "higher power", which doesn't have to be God or a religious concept.
AA isn't perfect but it has helped an incalculable number of people get sober. It isn't going to work for everyone but it has worked for a lot of people.
Addiction is such a complex and individual affliction there is never going to be a generic method that works for everybody. But I think AA does help a lot of people, and should be recognised for that while still acknowledging its flaws.
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etherphon@piefed.world · 21 pts · 147d
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 147d
Yeah, but if you do not do AA you do not get a coin. I have been sober 30 years this month, unless you count 2 zimas, and a sip of a fuzzy navel, then 20 years, and I never got no coin.
etherphon@piefed.world · 5 pts · 147d
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 147d
I was a teenage alcoholic and know I needed to quit to make anything out of my life. Now I am almost 50 and unemployed, but I am sober.
etherphon@piefed.world · 2 pts · 146d
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 146d
Congratulations on your sobriety.
Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 146d
Ooooh! I'll make you a 3d printed coin. I can probably mail it cheap too. Like regular snail mail. Or you can get it printed to a buddy with 3d printer. Let me do a design.
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 144d
That would be awesome. However I am in the states, I have no idea what kind of shipping we would be looking at from Canada any longer. Maybe just an STL, I can get someone in town to print it for me.
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 147d
https://aamedallionstore.com/collections/20-year-aa-medallions-twenty-year-alcoholics-anonymous-birthday-coins-and-chips
Im_old@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 147d
I only know about AA from movies and tv. Why fuck them?
etherphon@piefed.world · 16 pts · 147d
SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 147d
My understanding is that they encourage a recognition of a "higher power", which doesn't have to be God or a religious concept.
AA isn't perfect but it has helped an incalculable number of people get sober. It isn't going to work for everyone but it has worked for a lot of people.
etherphon@piefed.world · 5 pts · 147d
SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 147d
Addiction is such a complex and individual affliction there is never going to be a generic method that works for everybody. But I think AA does help a lot of people, and should be recognised for that while still acknowledging its flaws.
Ansis100@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 146d
Are you sure you didn't feel helpless because of withdrawal?
etherphon@piefed.world · 2 pts · 146d
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · -7 pts · 146d
maybe because most alcoholics are garbage?
AA has been credited with saving thousands of lives and families.