Originally Posted by
ananda 
sparky! tut tut.....who says the big book IS aa....
I consider aa to be as what the preamble describes....a group of alchoholics sharing the methods of recovery that works for them....but then i'm a liberal AAer
heh! Yeah that's kinda what i mean, the traditions allow each group to develop along it's own conscience, so you do get some easy going groups, but there is also a tendency for some parts of aa to think it's being "watered down" or "losing the message"... Again, this is not a criticism of the aa program or it's founders, just an observation by one human of some other humans!
I've met people in aa who got sober on the fellowship, haven't touched the steps (and are in double figures in years of sobriety), and have been quite shocked by some other aa people's (more hardcore aa'ers) attitude towards those people and their sobriety- "it's not real", "they're not really sober", "they're not aa" etc. Shocking - to me anyway.
The liberal aa'ers are my choice too!