Achtung! AlcoholicsAnonymous Diversion in #theRoomsofAA
Channel: The Modern Mystic
Date: 2024-01-09

Take one; they're free. And while you at it have a hot dog or a piece of cake! Don't forget Sunday morning scrambled eggs. Yum. Bacon! So now that the slate has been cleared of all that noisy human communication between each other, totally random and anonymous we are gifted with photocopies of THE GREAT ESCAPE with STEVE MCQUEEN. The reality of the actual event the movie is patterned after, is nothing but barbaric. Not a welcome message to the people who go to AA meetings either by court order or by desire to stop drinking. After all, we are all supposed to be progressing, PROGRESS NOT PERFECTION. I adore the slogans of AA. The recovery from any kind of addiction requires a self-re-structuring of your prior habitual life. All reform requires new habits. That paves the way for cleaner living that will help you to grow in understanding. 

If you go to meetings you go to practice working the steps.But we've forgotten that. In similar fashion we  have lost our way in our church services. We humans come together for one reason; to share moments of goodness, in service to each other. It just happens naturally. We need no coaxing but we do need LESS INTERFERENCE. This is a subliminal threat. The founding fathers of the Program of AA had a very different experience of what these member supported service megagroups now offer to the STILL SUFFERING ALCOHOLIC. The message is clear; IF YOU TRY TO LEAVE YOU WILL BE FLAYED IN THE MOST BRUTAL WAY; PERHAPS AND MOST LIKELY YOU WILL DIE.

I rest my case. I could be wrong here. Most likely NOT.

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