Originally Posted by
gerryP 
It is comments such as yours that point to the small mindedness of AA.
Reading this thread has reminded me what bothered me about AA when I first came in, I said alot of what is being said. Slogans, steps, groupthink, etc. Yet now I am so into AA, weird.
What is also weird is that the same things don't bother methat much anymore. I still get homicidal if someone tells me what to do or thinks that their experience should be my experience. But when that happens it's jerk (insert stronger word here) that just happens to be in a meeting and not "AA".
Alot of organizations would have hard time standing up to scrutiny judged on the actions of individuals.
I see now that I no longer put the actions of
certain members of AA on AA.
GerryP, I respect your position but have a question on the small mindedness comment, would you say that certain members are small minded or is the entire fellowship?