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Alcoholics Anonymous Dangerous Mind Control Cult
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 30856165:MV8yMDkzNDU4XzM1MjY3MzM5XzlDQkQ0Q0Qw] [quote:Bowyn Aerrow:MV8yMDkzNDU4XzM1MjQ5MjM2Xzk3REYxRjI1] The [i]need [/i]for AA is a replacement for a [i]need [/i]to drink (or do drugs). Addiction (regardless what you are addicted to) is a mindset that is really, really hard to break. If you do not have an addictive personality you cannot possibly 'get' what its like to be an addictive person. AA attempts (albeit poorly in some ways) to give people a better (questionable as it may be) outlet for their addictive behaviors. As for the powerless over alcohol thing. If you had an addictive personality you would keenly understand what that means. But (assuming you don't get addicted to stuff) you can't relate to it because you haven't been in the hands of something. Alcoholism and drug addiction (any addiction) is not curable. Of course once again as a 'normy' you don't get how its possible for this to be, but then you don't wake up every day craving some drug of choice, you don't have the screaming in your brain to have a drink or a shot or a line or whatever. I am a drug addict, thankfully decades clean and sober in that I haven't touched my drug of choice in a very long time. However the habits and personality traits of addiction still reside in me. I could very easily hook up with a drug dealer tomorrow and be right back where I was before I decided that I had a 'little problem'. As a normy you can't possibly understand this. And if you can understand this then you have an addictive personality and need a program of recovery yourself. [/quote] Well, you have your way and others have theirs. Who are you to say what another may, or may not need, or how to go about getting there? I gave up a long term crack addiction 7 years ago, and alcohol 3 years ago, along with smoking. I am no closer now to, or more in jeapordy of using again than I was when I manned up (so to speak, I am a woman) and decided it was time to get a life! I have the power within myself, a God given will, to avoid situations that would put me in positions where I might encounter old habits, and say no when presented with an offer to drink, or have a smoke from people who just don't understand. You have your way others have theirs! [/quote]
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Someone I am close to is heavily involved in AA and their life revolves around it. Anyone else had this experience? They 'need' to go to meetings, they say, daily. It's a cult which encourages harmful thinking, such as powerlessness and the idea of alcoholism as being incurable. I've been to pick up someone I know from meetings and I get a bad feeling in my gut about many of the members. Many AA members are felons and predators. I don't believe alcoholism is something which is incurable, contrary to the nonsense AA teaches.
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