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About Jonathan T. founded Alcoholism Anonymous or Alc-A. (Not affiliated with Alcoholics Anonymous, a.k.a. A.A.) Jonathan is educated formally in mathematics with an emphasis on physics and pure mathematics; however, he is now a full-time fiction author. Like many with alcoholism, he has struggled with continuous relapse in drinking throughout his life and career, getting no real help from recovery programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous or therapeutic approaches and or using medication like Antabuse. After years of suffering, he decided to extract what worked for him from the A.A. program and isolate it so others with a similar drinking problem can band together to help each other stay sober. Jonathan would like all readers to know that he credits the founder and or founders of Alcoholics Anonymous for this program. He also would like you to know that he fully supports Alcoholics Anonymous and encourages people to try it. He only wishes to ensure people that what they hear others say in A.A. is not to be taken seriously as it can be hazardous to believe—without a doubt—another’s point-of-view and or opinion. A superstitious belief in a higher power, relationship with God, or spiritual awakening are not the sole solution to abstinence—if even a solution at all. Alcohol is a chemical, and the human body is a chemical machine. The interaction of chemicals is a physical effect, whether it be while ingesting ethanol or desiring to ingest it. It’s all chemical reactions, which have nothing to do with interdimensional concepts of reality. Also: Our brains cannot begin to heal if we do not get the proper nutrients, which are also chemicals. We can sit around and talk all day, smoke, drink caffeine, and or eat sugar, but that will only delay the healing process. A letter from the founder: Dear Victim of Alcoholism, Suppose you suffer from alcoholism as I do. In that case, A.A., therapy, religion, other superstitious approaches, or drugs have failed to help you. You probably feel lost, alone, blamed, shamed, and or that it is your fault. And, when you go to the only place that is supposed to understand you—Alcoholics Anonymous—you feel even more isolated. Don’t ever let yourself believe the thoughts of uneducated-ignorant people, for they just don’t understand, and it is not your job to make them understand. The best thing to do is just let it go and let them go. Never explain yourself. Alcoholics Anonymous is more or less a program for defective people, people who are naturally inclined to lie, cheat and steal; self-centered and selfish people whom society has regarded as less than. These people do need the 12-step program or something similar, for they are not what the average person considers a good person. On our side, we are generally ordinary respected people that practice generosity, kindness and lend a helping hand whenever possible. (This may not be true for all of us, which is ok because we all still try to be better people.) My only point is that our issue is something we are born with. In contrast, the ones that benefit most from A.A. and similar recovery programs have developed those negative characteristics over time. We sympathize with them and wish them the best, but they cannot help us, and we cannot help them. I am here to tell you that you don’t need to worry anymore, for your problem isn’t a problem at all, nor is it a disease. You are simply different, and your brain chemistry reacts differently to alcohol than the regular Joe Schmoe or addict. (In Alc-A, a person addicted to alcohol is classified as a drug addict, not an alcoholic.) It isn’t a defect of character, spiritual ailment, nor is it some sort of deformation. We are only unaverage – like someone with red hair and freckles. Nothing is wrong with them; they are simply not average. For me, to stay sober, all it takes is to be reminded regularly why I don’t drink by hearing others with the same problem tell me why the

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2021/07/29

Listen with Closed Caption Read Transcript [00:00:00] Welcome to the Alcoholism Anonymous channel or website, depending on where you're listening. Alcoholism Anonymous is not associated with Alcoholics Anonymous, also known as AA, our acronym is Alc Dash A or A-L-C dash A. Our only purpose is to be there for others with alcoholism to help them stay sober today. We're not concerned with yesterday or tomorrow. We are not concerned with lengths of sobriety, nor are we concerned with any sort of 12 step program, spiritual awakening, religious and or non-religious approach to what most people refer to as recovery, because we do not believe there is a need to use the word recovery or to say one is recovered, because we believe, scientifically speaking, that this is something we are born with. There is no cure, just as somebody who is born with green eyes has no cure to change their eyes, brown or blue eyes to brown or red hair to brown hair and so forth. They are not average, the green eyes and the red hair, that is at least in most countries. But they are different, just not average, but it's not a problem, it's not a disease, I'm not disease because I have red hair, I'm not sick because I have green eyes. So I'm just on average and as of right now, there is nothing that's going to change that. So how do we deal with alcoholism? How do we prevent relapse? Well, we of Alcoholism Anonymous spent around 20 years researching under the tables of Alcoholics Anonymous as they would not to allow us to actually do any direct research and interviews with members of AA. They claim that they stand behind anonymity. Unfortunately, this is not what the original founders of AA meant by Anonymous. They simply just wanted their identities to remain anonymous. [00:02:16] Not the actual program, not the actual results, not the data. We do support Alcoholics Anonymous. We support other recovery programs like Alcoholics Anonymous. We encourage people to try it if they are so inclined to be religious, because by definition, Alcoholics Anonymous is a religion. And if you don't think that is true, let me tell you what the definition of religion is. Religion is the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal god, capital G or gods, lowercase G, a particular system of faith and worship, a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance. Think about what I just read in Alcoholics Anonymous. They make it very clear that the only way to remain sober and stop the obsession of drinking is through a higher power or a spiritual awakening, or to ask God to relieve us of this spiritual ailment or obsession to drink and so forth. They say in the big book verbatim, that only God could relieve us of our obsession to drink. Now, if this is true, then why couldn't God relieve us or a higher power relieve us? Of this obsession to drink so that we could drink as a normal or average person would drink, if God could do one, why not the other? Therefore, the whole methodology behind the Alcoholics Anonymous program is false. It's based off of lies and believing lies. We don't argue or talk or discuss about God. The idea of gods, plural, lowercase g, spiritual awakenings, religious approaches, non-religious, agnostic, atheist, secular. We are not concerned with that. We don't want to debate it. We don't want to argue it. We don't say yes. We don't say no. We just don't talk about it. We leave it at the door for us. [00:04:31] We are born with this. It has nothing to do with the choices we make in life or have made in life or what's happened to us or how we may be damaged or whatever that does not apply to us. We define alcoholism and alcoholic differently than mainstream definitions. We believe someone who is addicted to alcohol is a drug addict, just like someone who is addicted to sex, is addicted to a stimulant, which is the same thing that drugs do. It creates a stimulant within your mind, whether