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Male, 33 Northeast US   United States My opinions are my own ... For me, recovery comes from change and change is choice which comes from within. I look to others with similar life challenges for insight and emotional support.While here I have realized a need for individual, self-empowered, non-dogmatic, free-thinking, secular recovery. As I have experienced human growth and found my own path in recovery and life, I have found some who behave defensively and even angrily towards these expressions of individuality :( I AM a 'real alcoholic' and I do NOT need AA and I am NOT a 'dry drunk'!!! Lately I've been debating between using a a lump of earwax or the holy trinity of Rupert Murdoch, Bush/McCain and Bill O'Reilly Almighty as my higher power! Course the donut-hole or the doorknob are still options too ;) I just found some new words.. I can be pedantic, didactic, pedagogical and occasionally ostentatious or bombastic ...hehehe... I am in love with Alberta226 and I don't care who knows xxxx MORE....CLICK (See More About Me) I came here for Nicotine Anonymous meetings. I have enjoyed the loving support and minimal 12-step religion talk found in those meetings and they were an instrumental help in getting free from my addiction. While here I have realized a need for individual, self-empowered, non-dogmatic, free-thinking, secular recovery. As I have experienced human growth and found my own path in recovery and life, I have found some who behave defensively and even angrily towards these expressions of individuality activism   addiction   Alberta226   alcoholism   AVRT   Baha'i   catholicism   christianity   civil rights   community college   compulsive behavior   consistent life ethic   cooking   creedless spirituality   democracy   dialectic   eastern spirituality   eclectic music   education   enlightenment   fiscal conservative   food   forgiveness   gay rights   IED   James Hussien Jrunri   justification by fact   liberalism   libertarianism   medicine   movies   music   nicotine   non-dogmatic   nursing   OCD   pc games   politics   progressive   psychology   PTSD   quit smoking   rational thought   reality   really deep stuff   recovery   Rhode Island   sanctity of life   sanity   Save Our Selves   secular recovery   secularism   Self-empowerment   serenity   sleep apnea   SMART Recovery   smobriety   sobriety   social work   SOS   SOS   spirituality   student   stuff   the right to privacy   Unitarian   Unitarian Universalism   Universalism   whole life   WMD   Yes We Can   Yes We Can!!!   zen