Originally Posted by
fini 
..others who participate in a non-AVRT-specific thread are not "students" nor do they need to be "helped" by having their statements re-interpreted or reframed in a different paradigm.
I think we're all students or teachers in different contexts, that's the point of exchanging ideas and views. It really grated on me in early recovery when someone would play the hierarchy card, you're the student and I'm the teacher because I have more sober time than you. But no one else was in my head, and I needed to blaze my own path, making use of help where available but taking personal responsibility for it. The notion of someone playing teacher and treating other folks as students seems contrary to "internal locus of control", a perspective that is typical of most secular approaches.