|
Actually, speaking of rules: most alcoholics who quit, quit alone – with no treatment at all. They merely “grow out of” their addictions. Many scientific studies confirm this.
It is not surprising to me. My recovery is little or no method at all, let alone divine intervention – just, instead, choosing to get on with my life as best I can.
In AA rooms a higher power does the healing. What about those who were praying, religious people in cancer wards? In Nazi war camps? Who are dying of poverty? How come their ethereal pleas are not heard, but alcoholics sat in basement are? If someone in AA could answer me that…
Which only indicates to me how AA operates as a group dynamic – the healing, if any – is in the group – not in “higher powers” at all.
Surprised? Quite the opposite. To members of AA those are the rules, if your not in AA: there are no rules.
|