Alcoholics Anonymous has from its inception been clouded by the Spiritual vs. Religious debate that is always counter attacked with the statement that "you can pick any higher power you want", it's your choice. The apologetic members of AA tend to sway back and forth at times from it's very religious, to it's as religious as you want to make it, all the way to it's not religious at all.
The Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) Intergroup acts as the command and control center for the various individual AA groups in a small geographical area. In the US, an AA Intergroup normally covers one county. In the case of sparsely populated counties, it may combine them together, but this is rare. If the county is extremely populated, there may be several Intergroups.
What's the procedure for posting a photograph? Must it be a png or can it be a jpg? I hate technology but I do have something lovely to share.
Does anyone know of a case where a sponsor has sponsored both a male and female, bred them with each other, and then went on to sponsor the child? I realize this is a strange question and probably not something that happens very often.
Kristina Wandzilak, C.A.S, BRI-II is the Executive Director and the founder of Full Circle Intervention and is paid to put people into Rehab. She is charming and attractive, and very effective in talking people and their families into high priced rehab just as her male counter parts are. She specializes in two types of Intervention, the "Invitational Model" and the "Johnson (Surprise) Model.":
http://fullcircleintervention.com/process.php
Not so long ago and not so far away....
INTERIOR: Interchurch Center 475 Riverside Drive, New York City -- CONFERENCE ROOM.
Eight AA founders and professional boosters sit around a black conference table. Fresh newcomers stand guard around the room. Father Dowling is speaking.
DOWLING: Until this cult is fully mainstream we are vulnerable. Rational thinkers are too well equipped. They're more dangerous than you realize.
The bitter Dr. Tiebout twists nervously in his chair
SO...............................who the fuck is Wayne?
Instead, I am reading OPF and waiting for Massive's show to come on!!
Who all is listening in tonight?
Maybe I'll call :)
This is just probably my favorite thing Peele has ever written online. Sorry if everyone's already seen it, I missed out on some posts last week. This is from Peele's Psychology Today blog, Addiction in Society, on the A & E show, "Intervention":
"Intervene This"
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/addiction-in-society/201201/intervene
Read it all, it's short, it's great, and frankly just what I've been wanting someone to say about that damned show!
Got em taken out Thursday. Got 3 days worth of Percocet (plus about #50 5 mg percs I acquired for the occasion), now I am just taking Celebrex and ibuprofen 800 3-4x per day.
Still hurts like a bitch today (Monday). Too much to go to school today, I am still icing my face every hour. I am getting ready to go to a short little half hour on the elliptical at the neighborhood gym. Trying to stay positive :) Just writing this up as I am doing my stretches with the ice packs on my face. Haha.
With the very high profile case of Jerry Sandusky and Penn State, we have a real live example of how a "group" (Penn State) overlooks problems that happen in the group and even hide it. The excuses run the entire gambit that AA apologetic's use to protect their "program" and claim they are doing it for the sake of the team.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/29/justice/sandusky-witness-words/index.html?...
Submitted by msafrany on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 10:06
"New Haven, Connecticut (CNN) -- A judge in New Haven, Connecticut sentenced a 31-year-old man to death Friday for his role in a deadly home invasion that killed a woman and her two daughters in 2007.
Jurors convicted Joshua Komisarjevsky in October on six capital felony charges. The 12-member jury had recommended death by lethal injection on each of the counts.
"The task of sentencing another human being to death is the most sober and somber experience a judge can have," said Superior Court Judge Jon Blue.
Submitted by AntiDenial on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 07:26
Florida NA Region is well aware of the dangers to adolescents at their meetings that they send felons to through their H&I Program. Yet this does not stop them at all while they try to bring more teens into their fold, regardless of the inherent risks. Reprehensible.
"Hello everyone, I trust everybody had a great holiday season and with the New Year upon us, I have hope that we can continue to carry the message to the addict who still suffers. One way we can do that is by attending conferences and getting our message out to the professionals who work with addicts every day.
We have been Screwed!!!! got it it was all a money game guilt trip..Sucking you dry Bullshit.
On June 8, 9 & 10, 2012, Akron, Ohio the Birthplace of AA will be holding it's yearly festivities to the "other" co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, Dr. Bob in their 77th annual Founders Day celebration. Pre-registration can be done here:
https://foundersdayregistration.akronaa.org/
The annual picnic started by Lois Wilson for the Alcoholics Anonymous Family Groups will be celebrating its 61st year in June 2012 in Westchester county, New York. Last year on June 4, 2011 the 60th anniversary, the speakers were Peggy B., NYC (A.A.), Irene P., CT (Al-Anon) and Eric S., NY (Alateen) who explained to the crowd why they should be grateful to the adulterous, occult practicing, LSD taking co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill Wilson.
"It doesn't happen in my group" and "meetings are as safe as a grocery store" are often the answers from the faithful AA and NA members when they are questioned about the high percentage of sexual, financial and violent members present in Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. Normally the "Corrections Committees" prospect hunting trips are made up of "volunteers" from individual groups guided by the local Intergroup to go to jails and prisons to recruit the incarcerated to come and worship the writings of Bill Wilson in residential communities and Churches.
The International Conference of Young People in Alcoholics Anonymous (ICYPAA) has opened up the bidders for this joyous event of Spirituality to many legal liabilities, especially the "required" need for " three AA members with one or more years of sobriety at the time of the conference." These three main volunteers open themselves up to many legal lawsuits for the "required", not suggested needs of the ICYPPA Corporation, which is very different from the suggestions that corporate Alcoholics Anonymous World Services (AAWS) will protect.
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