Guest guest Posted July 6, 1999 Report Share Posted July 6, 1999 I seem to have lost the name of the author of this but it doesn't matter as this is my comments on the ideas presented and should not be taken personally. Snip>> Be careful with those guys... all they've done with " 12-step free " is >> >create another structure. Why, because we won't tell you how to think, strip you of your right of expression and sap away your individuality with threats banishing you to the great void of the outcasts who won't work the program to face pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization and death? Yeah, yeah better be careful of such people. Snip>> It is no different from any other structure, really. It exists mainly in opposition to AA. If there were no AA, 12-step free would fall to pieces. And of course not one person on this list that I have had any correspondence with would mind one bit, IF there were no AA, 12 step free would have served it's good and noble purpose and would have no need to exist. However the, " individuals " on this list would continue to live their lives with the knowledge of a job well done. Unfortunately the average AA member would face the madness of the empty space in their heads as in : Oh my God no meeting to go to, what do I do, Oh my God I have to make a decision and no sponsor to call, what do I do, Oh my God no recipe for living as baked till brown in the BB, what do I do. Oh my God I have to think for myself... ... .... what do I do!!!! Snip>> " Free " is in a symbiotic relationship to AA. A ludicrous assumption. Free, in the case of , " 12 step free " , is synonymous with being a freethinker, as in one who has rejected authority and dogma especially one that is religious. To make an assumption that one who has rejected such a self proclaimed authority as AA, is now in a symbiotic with AA is nonsense in the extreme. AA is persecution of the vulnerable, a shell game of injected untruths supported by mass agreement and those of us who have cleared our decks of it's nonsense are not in a close mutually beneficial relationship with it. The two structures serve as a system of checks and balances. How can subordination, indoctrination, cult style brainwashing, cultivation of shame and guilt while rejecting personal responsibility serve as a system of checks and balances to assertiveness of self, freethinking, individual preference, and reduction of shame and guilt by recognizing and accepting personal responsibility. I don't get the logic here. Of course I didn't get the logic in the BB either. Must be some kind of character defect I have. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eGroups.com home: /group/12-step-free - Simplifying group communications Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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