Any Alkies In Your Family?

[Neeranam]

We now have AA meetings in the Thai language 6 days a week in Khon kaen. We have lots of translated materials to help Thai alcoholics. There is a wonderful fellowship of sober Isarn alcoholics growing.

If you have an alcoholic in your family, send me a PM and maybe we can get them sober.

We also have members in Udon Thani, Nong Kai, Sakkon Nakon, Mukkdahan, Nam Pong, Kalasin, Chumpae, and Mahasarakham.

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ศูนย์บำบัดรักษายาเสพติด

775 หมู่ 19 อำเภอศิลา จังหวัดขอนแก่น

Phone at center: 043-345 391-2, ext 311 or 314

Soon Bam Bat Rak Sa Yaa Sep Dtit

Center for Treatment of Drug Addiction

775 Moo 19, Amphur Muang,

Changwat Khon Kaen

Phone at center: 043-345 391-2, ext 311 or 314

10:00am Sunday

3:00pm Tuesday and Thursday

Open Topic Discussion

No smoking on center premises

Meeting is Thai/Bilingual English

[farangconnection]

Only me (that admits it) & 235,768 that don't

[Pink Mist]

Only me (that admits it) & 235,768 that don't

You have a big family shady, nearl a 1/4 million

[blue eyes]

I am married to a Thai so what do you think?

[jumnien]

Both of my wife's grandfathers died of alcoholism. I hope many Thais can realize the benefits of Alcoholics Anonymous. It's great to see the successes

[erikr_]

parents of my wife quitted drinking the after we got engaged. They felt they now had to behave as the farang does not drink.

Must say they haven't been drinking in a year now and only buy the local stuff for an uncle that comes by who then needs to drink alone

[Aujuba]

Doesn't AA require that you believe in God?

Got this from wikipedia...

The 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Well I guess they could change the word God for Buddha. Do they?

Edited August 14, 2007 by Aujuba

[OxfordWill]

No, traditionally just a power higher than yourself.