S.O.B.E.R. = Son Of a Buck, Everything is Real
Sobriety stops out-of-control drinking, but sobriety does not make being sober bearable. The original A.A. is about substituting the effect of alcohol with the effect of spiritual fellowship and then showing others how they can recover also. Here is a synopsis:
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"'... I know I must get along without liquor, but how can I? Have you a sufficient substitute?'
"Yes, there is a substitute and it is vastly more than that. It is a fellowship [group] in Alcoholics Anonymous. There you will find release from care, boredom and worry. Your imagination will be fired. Life will mean something at last. The most satisfactory years of your existence lie ahead. Thus we find the fellowship [we share], and so will you.
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"Abandon yourself to God as you understand God. Admit your faults to Him and to your fellows. Clear away the wreckage of your past. Give freely of what you find and join us. We shall be with you in the Fellowship of the Spirit, and you will surely meet some of us as you trudge the Road of Happy Destiny..."
--"Alcoholics Anonymous", pages 152, 164
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