User talk:Mr Miles
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[edit] Your recent edits
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[edit] 13th Step
Please undo your edit warring. If you're seeing the article as a vehicle for 12th-stepping, you're in the wrong place. PhGustaf (talk) 00:36, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
- Erm, I wasn't edit warring, just reverting a change that hadn't been discussed properly. Am I being sensitive or did you overreact there? 12th-stepping?! Mr Miles 01:27, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] AA cult
Ok, the Alexander and Rollins concluded that AA used the same techniques that a researcher named Lifton identified as “thought reform” (brainwashing, but without the additional baggage that brainwashing holds) and those techniques where also used in cults. Now we get into the argument of wither that makes them a cult or not… Alexander and Rollins thought that any thought reform was negative and thus AA was a cult…while Kevin Wright (1997) in another study found that those techniques where seen as beneficial and thus AA wasn’t a cult. I actually added the text “And Kevin [Wright], in a study of several members, concluded that although the [Lifton] techniques [were] present in the Alexander and Rollins study, the conclusion that AA was a cult was erroneous because AA bore little semblance to religious cults because the techniques appeared beneficial in AA.[6]^ Wright, K[B] (1997) "Shared Ideology in Alcoholics Anonymous: A Grounded Theory Approach". Journal of Health Communication, Volume 2, pp. 83–99” to the cult page, but it was rejected by the editors.
I hope this helps outCoffeepusher (talk) 16:36, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
Thank you very much Coffeepusher, that's great, I'm going to propose reinserting it. Mr Miles 15:56, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Your recent edits
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[edit] Long and complicated explination
ok, so this newcomer (not really, but they have edited sparaticly over the years and nothing ever stuck) came to the aa page with a machette and an attitude (check out the "sandy edit" section of the aa talk). we have all tried to reason with them on both their talk page and on the aa talk page. when I logged on I found out that they had incerted their edits yet again (both me, PH, and Scrappy have all reverted the change) and then you made your edits. the only way I could figure out how to fix everything was to revert back to ph's edit (thus deleting your edits) and then incert your edits back as best I could. I hope I did a good job, because I did like your edits. sorry for the confusion.Coffeepusher (talk) 17:23, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Disease theory of alcoholism
I'm getting a bit tired (already) of MrAlbert and his various aliases making very silly edits. There appears to be almost no understanding. I suppose we just have to keep fighting the good fight, but really... Any suggestions? AussieBoy (talk) 11:29, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
