@[email protected] to [email protected] • 7 months agoIt's almost impossible to deny being an alcoholic without sounding like an alcoholicmessage-square139fedilinkarrow-up1419arrow-down124
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-27 months agoAlmost All… But yes in recent years AA has tried to distance itself from the higher power ( God) rhetoric. AA is somewhat decentralized, and you will have splinter groups. Also to clarify, 12 step is a process created by the founders of AA. It’s not a separate thing.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•7 months agoThe process still involves relinquishing your will power and deferring to an higher/outside power. Incredibly cult like behavior. You should be raising a person’s will power. Hyping the hell out of them.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•7 months agoOh I absolutely agree, the manipulation techniques used, are still the same ones religions use to control their congregations.
Almost All… But yes in recent years AA has tried to distance itself from the higher power ( God) rhetoric.
AA is somewhat decentralized, and you will have splinter groups.
Also to clarify, 12 step is a process created by the founders of AA. It’s not a separate thing.
The process still involves relinquishing your will power and deferring to an higher/outside power. Incredibly cult like behavior. You should be raising a person’s will power. Hyping the hell out of them.
Oh I absolutely agree, the manipulation techniques used, are still the same ones religions use to control their congregations.