Reply #153: This is utter bullshit... [View All]

Whilst AA may emply what some might consider 'mind-tricks' to retain members, the reality is that getting sober requires tricking one's mind in various ways. I have been to innumerable meetings and can say without question that the purpose of AA is help people stay sober. Period . To suggest that there are ulteriour or 'profit' motives is asinine. When they say that you have to 'keep coming back' it is because the stats bear out the notion that people who do, generally remain sober. The idea that you may somehow be punished for leaving, or that they are going to ask you to renounce your earthly possessions like a real 'cult' is likewise silly.

This article really pisses me off because there are people out there suffering with the disease that may choose not to check out AA because this article has them believing that they are somehow getting involved in a cult. BULLSHIT. Utter total complete nonsense. This article could literally cost some people their lives. Fuck whoever wrote this (and the horse they rode in on, too)!