I have a friend who is quite bright, she has managed to get her life together in a big way since an eminent psychiatrist guided her to AA, Now leading a quite marvellous and gilded life with a beautiful family and having educated herself she would like to give something back.
So what is stopping her? Well, the people in AA and to such an extent that she wonders if they are religious (I am using the word religious in its wider sense) bigots
Here's the story: this now very successful person goes to her AA meeting and tries to share.
But it is difficult because some of the procedure's at AA, she now finds insulting.
Such as the required going round the room and introducing yourself
'My name is whatever and I am alcoholic."
It is this robotic parroting out by everybody in the room
that they are an 'alcoholic' which makes her feel she is being lobotomised.
The 'just for today card' which is so full of uber Christian advocacy that the only way to meet such good behaviour stricture would be if your dead. She regards this required reading at AA
meeting as stone age text.
She finds being part of what she regards as an adolescent American culture, AA
as intellectually offensive.
The thought of holding hands at the end of the meeting as incredibly embarrassing like being scouts around a camp fire. Or worse being a freemason.
She tries to 'share' that the eminent psychiatrist who sent her to AA regards
it as useful till the 'bandages' come off, but essentially it is nonsense but she accepts it is useful nonsense.
There is much tutting and shaking of the head when she expresses such views
and she on occasion being drummed out of the meetings by the 'chairperson' holding up a card indicating that is enough sharing of that kind. Her husband find this the most hilarious thing, 'like a footballer getting the red card.'
For her part, she just feels that they, AA members, are fundamentally religious bigots.
But her husband says, naughty of you to go there. They are in the main broken people trying to mend their lives and better to talk 'nonsense' than cause destruction through drinking.
Se accepts they are straw targets and will endeavour to help in some other way.
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So what is stopping her? Well, the people in AA and to such an extent that she wonders if they are religious (I am using the word religious in its wider sense) bigots
Here's the story: this now very successful person goes to her AA meeting and tries to share.
But it is difficult because some of the procedure's at AA, she now finds insulting.
Such as the required going round the room and introducing yourself
'My name is whatever and I am alcoholic."
It is this robotic parroting out by everybody in the room
that they are an 'alcoholic' which makes her feel she is being lobotomised.
The 'just for today card' which is so full of uber Christian advocacy that the only way to meet such good behaviour stricture would be if your dead. She regards this required reading at AA
meeting as stone age text.
She finds being part of what she regards as an adolescent American culture, AA
as intellectually offensive.
The thought of holding hands at the end of the meeting as incredibly embarrassing like being scouts around a camp fire. Or worse being a freemason.
She tries to 'share' that the eminent psychiatrist who sent her to AA regards
it as useful till the 'bandages' come off, but essentially it is nonsense but she accepts it is useful nonsense.
There is much tutting and shaking of the head when she expresses such views
and she on occasion being drummed out of the meetings by the 'chairperson' holding up a card indicating that is enough sharing of that kind. Her husband find this the most hilarious thing, 'like a footballer getting the red card.'
For her part, she just feels that they, AA members, are fundamentally religious bigots.
But her husband says, naughty of you to go there. They are in the main broken people trying to mend their lives and better to talk 'nonsense' than cause destruction through drinking.
Se accepts they are straw targets and will endeavour to help in some other way.
Read Peter Cheevers' fiction published by Ether Books
http://catalog.etherbooks.com/Authors/1118
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