[golover721]

I have been going to AA for a while now, mostly because it is the only type of group meeting regularly available. The part that I cannot come to grips with is not so much the recognition of a higher power, but the fact that you have to believe that you are "powerless" to your addiction. This whole notion of pushing off fault and that you cannot change your behavior without the higher powers intervention is not something I will ever agree with. But group meetings are awesome and effective, and in most areas AA is the only choice, so no wonder AA works.

[Mikhail_Edoshin]

The idea of admitting you're powerless is to admit that the worldview you've been holding so far doesn't seem to work against addiction. Which means it's not entirely correct. Which means some things you think you know are not so.

[daseiner1]

Sure, but I’ve always interpreted it in the sense that you have to surrender to the fact that you are powerless under the influence of alcohol, that you are incapable of doing something that it seems everyone else can (drink)