{"id":1760,"date":"2010-11-01T08:45:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T12:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedsnotebook.com\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2010-11-01T08:45:51","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T12:45:51","slug":"unsolicitated-criticism-by-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedsnotebook.com\/wp\/2010\/11\/01\/unsolicitated-criticism-by-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsolicited criticism by me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that irritates me, are the so called experts (non alcoholics), who are constantly out there, commenting on the program. They&#8217;ve never walked in the shoes of real alcoholics. They have no idea what it&#8217;s like to have a craving, which Dr. Silkworth said, is a phenomenon reserved only to the alcoholic.<\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine recently sent me an almost unending article. I&#8217;m sure it was to impress the medical and psychiatric men and women on just how sophisticated he is. Funny thing. It starts off with what is supposed to be a history of this program and Bill W. He not only doesn&#8217;t have the facts, but has a completely perverted vision of Bill and Dr. Bob. I think if we asked him who Mrs. Seiberling was he&#8217;d babble. Let alone Dr. Jung and Rowland H. He seems to have no idea how vital they were to this program.<\/p>\n<p>What is the supposed theme? No one understands how AA works or why? But, hold on. He&#8217;s sure he does. What a whale of a brilliant man. Writer. What&#8217;s that they say about being lower than whale &#8230;.?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, after having plowed my way through all this stuff, which says AA is group therapy. That we all need medication. That anyone could do this. Wow! What a brilliant man.<\/p>\n<p>I am sitting here trying to cool off. I hate this kind of junk. But, what else is new?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah, he begins by attributing this to spirituality. But little by little he begins to take that apart. Me? It&#8217;s spiritual. The proof? I&#8217;m sober in spite of myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that irritates me, are the so called experts (non alcoholics), who are constantly out there, commenting on the program. They&#8217;ve never walked in the shoes of real alcoholics. They have no idea what it&#8217;s like to have a craving, which Dr. Silkworth said, is a phenomenon reserved only to the alcoholic. A friend &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nedsnotebook.com\/wp\/2010\/11\/01\/unsolicitated-criticism-by-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unsolicited criticism by me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedsnotebook.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedsnotebook.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedsnotebook.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedsnotebook.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedsnotebook.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nedsnotebook.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedsnotebook.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedsnotebook.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedsnotebook.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}