Question by : Is Alcoholics Anonymous a harmful cult or just a harmful waste of time?
It has been proven time and time again to not work as a cure for alcoholism. Then with their if you have one drink one drunk crap they preach people who do slip up on the AA plan tend to binge drink since the program makes people think they cannot stop if they have one drink.
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Answer by VegasPapi A waste of time.
Its more of a organization party, pizza here cookies there and have a nice day.
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Question by DH: Do rich people believe if the billions of working poor would just work harder they wouldn’t be poor anymore?
Two ways to help humanity
1)Increase productivity, college, health care, mental help, addiction treatment, small business grants, etc, etc. This takes a very long time.
2)Decrease costs, fuel, water, housing, inflation, taxes, energy, food, transportation, etc, etc.
So, what can be reduced in costs right now. Well, inflation is man made so that would have the biggest impact.
And fuel and manufacturing costs can be reduced by already existing technology.
So what is easier, giving billions of people thousands cash to study real hard with or without diseases, and little family support or stepping on the toes of rich companies by free market?
My conclusion is we neglect the working poor, by spending our energy on homeless shelters, rehab, section8, etc, instead of the source which everyone has already surrendered to figuring out. Charity & nonprofits always set the bar of success at 1 person, how about everybody?
To ‘buy into mainstream culture’ is communistic. ic to not use the answers we already have to solve suffering of billions.
So we need a cutthroat person to fight for free market opportunities to help poor by providing lower costs and job opportunities at the same time.
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Answer by skip1960 Honestly I think the rich think if we worked harder they’d be richer. Get the monkey’s off our backs.
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Please give me specifics (bioligical) on why you think it is a disease, and why people claim they have no power over it?
That would be *biological*, not that other word I mis-spelled up there.
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can you understand the potential value as a form of meditation or affirmation?
Besides religion, my only dangerous addiction has been cigarettes. I smoked a pack a day for ten years. Then, as part of trying to quit, I told myself over and over as I was going to sleep: “I no longer want to smoke, I no longer want to smoke, etc”. I quit, cold turkey, within a week and a half and have not had another cigarette in almost twenty years.
While I personally did not attribute any power to a god, if I had prayed: “God, please help me quit smoking, god, please help me quit smoking, etc”, I’m pretty sure (if I was so inclined) it would have worked just as well.
Leaving out all commentary about the ‘god delusion’, do you not think that faith in the effectiveness of a placebo is the basis of the effectiveness of the placebo? And, therefore, don’t prayers that ask god for inner strength have some potential to be helpful? (For those who believe in prayer.)
BTW – I’m not talking about prayer affecting external outcomes or events.
While I started smoking young – are you trying to say being on here is childish and silly? Probably. But, then, what are you doing here? (psyche)
Yes, the transfer of responsibility to an outside forcec ould, definitely, become an excuse for many things. It is often used to justify bigotry, for example. “I’m not a bigot – god is.” kind of thing. Sure, that can be a bad side effect.
2 years ago i was arrested for possesion and use of illegal drugs i did 3 months and jail went into rehab for a year, I have been clean and sober for 2 years and few months, I recently try to get a Life Insurance And I got denied my metlife and 90 others companies according to my broker. the Reason my felony for drug possesion!
I live in California,
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