Is AA a cult?

[Barto]

Yes, I want credit, and I can’t make coffee and fend of Federal agents at the same time.

[Barto]

Originally Posted by nandm

Hey all you cult members care to come to the airport with me and sell flowers? Might be fun. About as much fun as sleeping with whomever our leader is and drinking Koolaid.

Yes, this was meant to be a joke. If AA is a cult I am still better off because of it so to me it is really a mute point.

You mean moot point. LOL.

[navysteve]

Great post!!!

I think there are cults in AA but AA itself is not a cult. I used to live near mid-town group in DC. They made Newsweek last year and have been a known sick AA group for years. I believe some of this begins and ends with the sponsor:

Sponsors are not High priests ( Priestess)

Sponsors are not life coaches, therapists etc...

Sponsors are people who can guide us through the steps.

[Signal30]

Is it selfish and self-seeking to start a cult and call it AA so I can have many women to choose from and soldiers of force to do my bidding??? They can help me build my weather machine so I can TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!!

MUAH, HA HA HA HA!!! (Lightening and thunder striking)



Tom (AKA Grand Master of the Almighty Double AA)

[RufusACanal]

no comment on this thread....

[CarolD]

I think there are cults in AA but AA itself is not a cult. I used to live near mid-town group in DC. They made Newsweek last year and have been a known sick AA group for years. I believe some of this begins and ends with the sponsor:

I did attend meetings at Midtown years ago.
It was not my home group.

Sunday 8 PM was always full of newly sober
people picking up chips. Many young people.
I did not think it was a sick meeting...
rather a celebration of progress.
From my 8 years in D.C. AA no one
I knew considered Midtown to be a cult.

When I read the article you mentioned...I wondered
why the girl who lived in Potomac
would be using Midtown as a home group.

The DC police did not find evidence
supporting her story.
I just did not find the article rang true.

I kept thinking about the salem witch hunt.

[navysteve]

All I can say is that I lived in the DC area twice. This last time between 2004-2007 there was definitely something wrong with Midtown. The problem seems to be that most AA's minimize the damage done in such groups. I knew people there who were told who their sponsor would be, what groups they were allowed to attend. That they were not qualified to think for themselves. That is not AA, at least it is not in any literature I read, but hey I sit in the back of the room alot so what do I know? I hear AA's say allt he time that they needed their brain washed, that if it is a cult it is still better than the alternative. I am glad that I was shown a better way. I was never told who my sponsor would be, any sponsor I ever had was my equal, never my better. My sponsors never told me what to do, they shared their experience. It is a shame that this seems to be the uncommon solution today