AA meetings a must (bound by law)

[convikt]

Maybe i shouldnt say a must but do think you should be forced to go to aa meetings? No . Am an alcoholic and am in the road to sobrierity.The law requires you to attend a number of aa meetings every week or else you would be in violation, which we all know has bitter consequences. My feeling is that one should not be bound by that mentality coz then you will just attend the meetings just for the sake of being there physically and that aint doin you no good.
Am required to attend 2 meetings every week and where i reside there seems not to be on close by then again My licence is suspended so cant drive the local transportation takes long before it comes around. Thanks to aa soberliving.com. I can participate n be encouraged without having to leave the house. Anyway my opinion is that attending AA meetings should sorerly be ones choice.

[kremjk]

You could attend 7 meetings a week.
Then there would be 5 meetings that you are not forced to go to.
I understand what you are saying about the courts and their control issues. But it sounds like you want AA for your sobriety. Anyway I'm glad you are here at AASL and are free to chose.

jim k

[angussdundee]

Hey Con, Are you saying that the courts accept participation in online recovery sites as being an acceptable substiture for actual AA meeting - or am I reading that wrong? C'mon back buddy.
I've heard many points of view before regarding the effectivness of AAs message to people who may or may not want to be in the rooms of recovery. Personaly I don't care how they get to the rooms - provided they get to the rooms.... ;)

anguss.

[samf]

Hey, Convikt. Wow. Well, I personally think maybe the courts send us drunks and druggies to AA or NA, because they don't know how else to help us.

Weirdest dang disease I ever saw...we think we are doing just fine, thank you...and don't need help.

There's that saying about AA being for folks who want it. That lots of us need it, but I guess we just aren't ready. I had to get beat up pretty badly to want to stop drinking and using. I always end up hoping other people won't have to be as bullheaded as I was about it.

And I am so grateful and lucky that I got the opportunity to get sober, but I didn't see it or know it, at the time.

I know this one dude who walked eight miles into town, every day, to get to an AA meeting, once he decided he wanted to stop.

Where I am, it's a really tiny town. but we still have two local meetings a week...get lots of court ordered folks...really sad to see them go back out...I end up praying they will be able to make it back. And I have friends in the fellowship who were court-ordered where it actually worked for them, and they are still sober.

My old home group used to be extremely close to a VA hospital. Guess where they sent the drunks? Yep...to AA meetings...they gave them all the information they could, and sent them to AA...I am assuming because they wanted them to be able to get sober, and they didn't know what else to do.

Anyway...my personal opinion is that is why they do it. It's the best reason I can come up with, anyway.

Glad you are here.

Hope your day is the best!

Sam