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ALCOHOLICS
ANONYMOUS
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS is a
fellowship designed and administered
by a bunch
of ex-drunks whose only
qualifications for membership are
that they can't
hold their liquor and have decided
they don't want to learn how. Not that they
could anyway, they never could, and
it's highly unlikely that they ever
would. It has no rules, dues or fees,
nor anything else that any sensible organization
seems to require.
At meetings, the speaker starts
on one subject, winds up talking
about something
entirely different, and concludes by
saying he doesn't know anything
about the program except that it
works. The groups are always broke,
yet always seem to have money to
carry on. They are always losing members
but seem to grow. They claim AA is a
selfish program but they always
seem to be trying to give it away and
to do something for others.
Every group passes laws, rules,
edicts and pronouncements that
everyone blithely
ignores; members who disagree with
anything have the privilege to walk out
in a huff, quitting forever, only to
return as if nothing has happened and be
greeted accordingly. Nothing is ever
planned 24 hours ahead, yet great
projects are born and survive
magnificently. Nothing in AA is
according to
Hoyle. How can it survive?
Perhaps it's because we have
learned to live and laugh at
ourselves. God made
man. He made laughter too. Perhaps he
is pleased with our disorganized
efforts and makes things right no
matter who pushes the wrong button.
Maybe he is pleased, not with our
lack of perfection, but with our sincerity.
Maybe he is pleased with our trying
to be nobody but ourselves. We don't
know how it works, but it does, and
members keep receiving their dividends
from their AA investments. It is
smart to be sober, and much easier,
my friends, to stay sober than to get
sober.
(STOLEN
or Borrowed from some other members'
writings)
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