A new identity, based on an illness, defines the life of members, who were expecting to be reborn, only to find that apart from not drinking, their lives do not get much better.
In many cases, individuals addict on something else, like coffee, or sex, or going to meetings. I still remember some members who would go to meetings for debt, for codependency, or for any other failing that came to mind.
It's just crazy!
The program teaches people to identify with alcoholism, then ingrain in individuals the notion of peace, however temporal, which comes with being in "the rooms".
If you identify with a perversion, you will feel comfortable around people who identify with the same. There's a deluded sort of honor in identifying with one group of people as opposed to another.
My own mother would go around saying: "Arthur, he's one of us. He's a friend of Bill W."
No, I am not!
What happens, often in the rooms, is that men and women become more comfortable with the rooms, with the people, and less comfortable with the world at large.
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| AA: Like Tremors -- Grabs, Hooks, Then Pulls You In |
How does translate into any kind of life outside of AA?
It doesn't.
Everyone of us needs life, not another program, or a set of rules, or distractions which cause us to run from life instead of rest in Life, the Person of Jesus Christ.
This forced identity, coerced because of vain repetitions in the meetings, causes people to figure themselves as nothing or incomplete without the program of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Give me a break!
It's time for everyone of us to call out AA for what it really is: a dangerous cult which grabs people through state-sponsored coercion (mandatory AA meetings), then hooks them with indoctrination, and finally pulls them in with a forced identity, which forces them to "Keep Coming Back."
(A lot like those ugly monsters in the horror comedy "Tremors")
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