Another AA is/isn't a cult thread in the lounge!

[RetroLounge]

Get your popcorn!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x8229285

:hi:

RL

[KitchenWitch]

1. *holds out hand for secret handshake*

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

2. Hee hee

I *love* the handshake!

:hug:

RL

[Kajsa]

7. LOL!

:rofl: :hi:

[NMDemDist2]

3. that one's not bad, but I'm staying FAR FAR away from this one

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=8228672&mesg_id=8228672

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[Kajsa]

9. It's locked now, AZ Dem.

Too many idiotic , inflammatory responses.

[Iggo]

4. Has it been 6 months already?

Did somebody go and change the definition of disease again?

Anyway, I've decided I'm just gonna read it laugh. I get a little disheartened when I witness non-addicts arguing about whether or not my addiction is a disease. Truth is, it doesn't matter to me. Call it a didease. Don't call it a disease. Doesn't change a thing.

[KitchenWitch]

5. Time flies...

Just a label. How the label affects what I do for my recovery? Not in the least.

:hi:

:hug:

[FloridaJudy]

6. I just LOVE the posts that claim

Someone is making big bucks from AA! :rofl:

For a cult, we're awfully darned cheap. Where else can you get therapy, entertainment and coffee for a buck?

[Kajsa]

10. Wasn't that the dumbest thing,Judy?

:rofl:

Oh yeah, the meetings are just for " ripping us off".

:eyes:

[Kajsa]

8. At least they didn't call us "terrorists"

this time.:)

WTH? Are we some kind of threat to
these people?

What IS their problem?

:shrug:

[FloridaJudy]

11. Sounds to me

Like someone got court-ordered into a Twelve Step program, and isn't happy there. Well, guess what - I'm not freakin' happy to have them there, either. I don't need people like that text-messaging their buddies while some poor soul is pouring her guts out. When I chair, I just sign the court forms at the beginning of the meeting. Then the person can stay or not. That's a pretty lackadaisical way of running a "cult" IMHO.

[Kajsa]

12. I'm with you, Judy.

Some of them want to participate, some don't and show their disdain
at the meetings.

What would they prefer?

Jail?

Sheesh!

[KitchenWitch]

13. Yah, if they are given a choice between AA and jail...then they are not being "forced"

to go to AA. They made a choice. But then those DAMNED 12 steppers in AA ruined their drinking...

[Kajsa]

14. We DO that, Kitchy.

The drinking just isn't any " fun" after meeting us.

:)

[KitchenWitch]

15. Yah, I know

My last 5 years of drinking was ruined by you $%#& in AA!

:D

[Kajsa]

16. LOL!

:rofl: :hi:

[Critters2]

17. My 12-step program helped me to quit therapy and recover in community.

EA suggested donation: $2 a meeting. Suggested attendance: 1 meeting a week. Yearly donation: $110.00

Therapist $120 a session. Sometimes wanted me to go twice a week.

I wonder if the person in the Lounge is a therapist who was losing money to self-help programs.

[SPKrazy]

18. It's a brain washing cult

and if anyone ever needed a brain washing it was me :P