Equality
March 28, 2008 by Mark
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Today’s Daily Reflection…
Equality
To me, this could be one of the Top Ten ideals/principles we can strive for. Shamefully, there are folks who, imho, differ and differ out loud and irrationally. Consider;
“Our membership ought to include all who suffer from alcoholism. Hence we may refuse none who wish to recover. Nor ought A.A. membership ever depend upon money or conformity.”
Conformity eh? What does that mean? To me that means that those who would judge me less than a real alcoholic because I say I’m recoverin(g) instead of recovere(d) – can go to he**! I have no requirement to conform to your controlling insanity of perfection!
Thank God the real oldtimers were experienced enough to tell us “We realize we know only a little” rather than your all knowing spewage…
“Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that, as a group, they have no other affiliation.”
And if they don’t do “it” my way, I have the choice to change the channel to another station.
“Prior to A.A., I often felt that I didn’t ‘fit in’ with the people around me. Usually ‘they’ had more/less money than I did, and my points of view didn’t jibe with ‘theirs.’ The amount of prejudice I had experienced in society only proved to me just how phony some self-righteous people were.”
That’s right – I just called you self-righteous. A self-righteous a** I might add. My POV doesn’t conform to yours and you’re willing to fight to the end to make us conform. My, how sober! Yeah – that was meant to be sarcastic.
“After joining A.A., I found the way of life I had been searching for. In A.A. no member is better than any other member; we’re just alcoholics trying to recover from alcoholism.”
You are dispensing all that death you accuse us of giving out to newcomers when you chase people away with your “Perfect Alcoholics Anonymous.” An AA they find impossible to live up to because they are required to live every single syllable of the Big Book every waking moment of every day. If you spot it, you got it.
End rant…
