I should clarify

[pywacket]

when I say cult...I mean alcoholics anonymous.

if you attempt to write me and tell me it's not a cult or anything along those lines I will turn my eye lasers on you and burn a hole in your skull.

I spent 8 years in the damn thing, I should know. Go read THE REAL AA , if you don't believe me. Or check out the website AA deprogramming

I never lost a job, a relationship or even made less than a B in school. I was doing what 20 year olds do for the most part. I was "self medicating" a childhood that would be believed only in the context of the Theatre du Grand Guignol. I was also living with a distant, abusive and angry man. And it was me that had the problem

yes, but it wasn't alcohol that was the problem.

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AA

[lizaboo.livejournal.com]

this is at best tangentally related to your topic, but i thought it was interesting. it's a NYTimes story about whether or not incriminating statements made in the contxt of AA are privileged in the legal sense (that is, they cannot be used against in criminal proceedings and no-one can be compelled--or allowed--to testify as to those statements in court).

i found this to be particularly interesting:

"Since courts have found that A.A. is a religion for the purpose of church-state separation, the judge wrote, they must also hold that "disclosures of wrongs to fellow members as ordained by the 12 steps" of the A.A. program qualify as "a privilege granted to other religions similarly situated."

the issue came up when a man confessed at an AA meeting that he might have killed two people while suffering an alcoholic blackout. i knew AA had a strict christian underpining, but i'd no idea it qualified as religion under the law.

link: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/02/nyregion/02DRUN.html

NYTimes requires registration; feel free to use mine. login: burbia, password: psychoburbia

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[pywacket.livejournal.com]

That's just frightening. I can't say I'm surprised, but it still isn't right. There is a slippery slope there they aren't considering.

and I guess now that the courts agree it is a religion even if AA says it isn't.