Are You Safe in an Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting?

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Clara,
you have to be aware that churches have represented safety & sanctuary for people & society for a long, long time. You have to know that. AA meetings are often in church basements, this indicates to the battered addict that it is a safe environment, its a CHURCH, a CHURCH, come on, you can't not understand the significance here. What gatherings wouldn't take place in a church basement? Lots of stuff, cock fights, swingers groups, dog fights, terrorist activity, prostitution, and on & on. Dangerous environments, walking down a ghetto street, especially @ night, hanging out in bars in rough neighborhoods with rough clientele, going to any kind of illegal fighting, cock, dog or people & so on & so on. A church is a safe haven, a SAFE HAVEN, AA meeting @ churches is a blatant indication that is a safe environment, and that's what meeting in church basements has to do with the lie that AA is a safe haven or environment. The solution is simple, if AA & NA are going to continue to troll the court system, the prison system, etc. they need to disclose @ the beginning of each meeting that the possibility exists that there are sentenced attendees including the paroled & probated & they won't be identified, but just like cigarettes come with warnings, so should AA. Just tell the truth, what's the problem just tell the truth & disclose the possible dangers of exposure. And again, how many people have to be hurt before it becomes significant, how many is acceptable to do something, to disclose the truth, to forewarn people that AA actively participates in convicted & parole felon being sentenced to attend. It just doesn't matter if most go on without a hitch, this is irrelevant, what matters is if even one person is harmed or endangered or abused, something has to change. And you know, you know that a lot more than one person has been deliberately abused & harmed & a lot of innocent children have been harmed & damaged. Wake up Clara & smell the coffee, for real.

Small children are in meetings due to their parents making the choice to bring them there. I don't think AA has a personal interest or stake in that, pus the meeting takes place in a park where children can go play with others while the parents meet.

AD,
out of all of AA's disgraceful & shameless behaviors interaction with children is the most reprehensible. AA, no blame, no shame. Unfortunately it is going to take a real tragedy & it biting a judge in the ass for this to stop & for all judges to stop sentencing any & all minors to AA. Also judges need to be very cautious about subjecting any one to AA, especially any one under 30. It's a bad environment for an adult vulnerable addict, but the kids it's a bad, bad accident waiting to happen.

Clara,
no one should be minding their own business when they belong to a group that is abusive & deliberately trolls the court system & prison system looking for bodies to fill the rooms. They should be minding the group's business. No one should be minding their own business when abuse is happening. What is more controlling, more demeaning, more belittling than being told to mind your own business? You are being told that your opinions, input & thoughts are unworthy, that you are unworthy. Wilson wanted Lois minding her own business, he wanted the members of his Buchman copy cat cult to mind their own business, yeah don't you dare go thinking critically, having your own mind or paying any attention to anything wrong, immoral or bad going on around you, just mind your own business. Don't communicate or interact with your spouse or family, just mind your own business. It is degrading, controlling & abusive. And whether you pay attention, think critically or care about others, have decency & be humane, none of those behaviors are going to cause a relapse. Cult members who have been terrified into thinking if they don't mind their own business they relapse, die, get committed or go to jail & have been belittled into believing that they should mind their own business. They are in public @ a meeting, they are fair game for photographs & who the hell in AA is anonymous anyway, all of you are incessant babblers, babbling about your self's, your drinking, parroting the sayings, all your problems & gossiping, yes gossiping about other members & always, always putting down other methods to quit an addiction. AA people are so culted up they can't even hide that they are in AA, parroting the sayings & their other odd behaviors, yes it is odd for an adult to parrot another adults sayings, words & to abide by another adults "suggestions" on who they are, how to be & what to do, it's weird & it shows.

In a public park.....init great when your daft

Barmy nutjobs

Anti you lead a long list of members here that are very dishonest in your characterizations of AA/NA. You all believe this is the only way you can be heard. I know you do this. Some of your cronies deserted y'all and spoke of such discussions. I find this reprehensible.
There is no way you can tell us that the topics JR, Massive or yourself write about can be taken seriously, come on.