tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684408.post5193293193227777216..comments2023-05-18T08:06:38.005-07:00Comments on The NEW Old Musings: PowerlessBethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07946709925967078983noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8684408.post-45555728390700996532008-11-10T23:18:00.000-08:002008-11-10T23:18:00.000-08:00Googling 12-step jargon because I am attempting to...Googling 12-step jargon because I am attempting to de-indocrinate myself, I came across your post and was particularly stricken by:<BR/><BR/><BR/>I want it to be better. I want it NOW. (or in the near future...) I want progress.<BR/><BR/>If you are "off" drugs and alcohol, please accept that you ARE better.<BR/><BR/>Don't accept the doublespeak 12-step propaganda that addiction is somehow a "moral disease." I too got sucked in and mainly stayed because of the promises that I would "relapse and die" if I left.<BR/><BR/>Powerlessness as a doctrine is terrible and self-defeating.<BR/><BR/>If you attend 12-step for depression or some other ailment, please realize that spiritual faith healing does not work for real mental disorders...<BR/><BR/>I urge you to check out www.rational.org. You don't have anything to lose, and 12 step will still be waiting for you when you get back. If you go back you can keep chanting the mantras of 12-steppers: I'm powerless, I must take moral inventory, I need a sponsor, I have to live life one day at a time*...<BR/><BR/>*Not a bad doctrine if you take it at face value, but to most 12-steppers it means "Don't say you'll be clean a week from now or a year from now or (GOD FORBID) the rest of your life. Just say you'll be clean today."<BR/><BR/>How is that conducive to recovery?<BR/><BR/>Feel free to shoot me an email at<BR/><BR/>conwict<BR/><BR/>gmail dot com.Corey Nelson https://www.blogger.com/profile/13662020389933390355noreply@blogger.com