What is AA

Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship designed

and administered by a bunch of ex drunks whose

only qualifications for membership are they can’t

hold their liquor and don’t want to learn how. It

has no dues or fees nor anything else that any

sensible organization seems to require. At the

meetings the speaker starts on one subject and

winds up talking about something entirely

different and concludes by saying he doesn't’t know

anything about the program except that it works.

The groups are always broke, yet always seem to

grow.
They claim A.A. is a selfish program, but always

seem to be doing something for others. Every

group passes laws, rules, edicts, and

pronouncements which everyone blithely ignores;

members who disagree with anything are

privileged to walk out in a huff, quitting forever,

only to return as though nothing has happened

and be greeted accordingly. Nothing is ever

planned 24 hours ahead yet great projects are born

and survive magnificently. Nothing in A.A. 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 with our trying to be nobody but

ourselves. We don't know how it works, but it

does and members keep receiving their dividend

cheques from their A.A. investments. It is smart

to be sober, and it is much easier, my friends to

stay sober then to get sober.


Got this in my e-mail today and thought I would share it. I don't know who wrote it but they must be a member.