They require you to believe you are not responsible for your own actions and behavior
That right there is my problem with organizations like AA. You cannot solve your problems without first realizing that you - and ONLY you - are responsible for yourself.
You cannot solve your problems without first realizing that you - and ONLY you - are responsible for yourself.
Completely agree.
I looked up from AA.
This first step states, “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol and that our lives had become unmanageable.”
Absolute rubbish. I admire the effort made to help people overcome their problems, but giving them an excuse for it right out of the gate is a bad idea. To me, anyway.
Even the atheist version of AA has something similar but they leave "god" out of it.
Surrender yourself to the AA so that the AA may guide you.
Unfortunately many people are truly powerless and won't solve their own problems. Look around you today. Anyone still wearing a mask and people who got the poison shot are subject to mass mind control. These people, while not alcoholics, necessarily, simply are feeble minded and react to media suggestion. They are not in control of their own thoughts. They look to others to tell them what to do. These same people also are subject to diffusion of responsibility. That is, they won't take responsibility and assume other people are going to do it. The "Q" phenomenon was a good example of that. "Trust the plan"
They are not powerless. They simply refuse to use their own power and instead choose to blame anyone else except themselves.
I understand your thinking. I used to think that too. What is the difference between someone who is powerless and someone who refuses to act? The outcome is the same. At some point, you have to let go and move on. AA takes the position that people can't/won't act on their own behalf and ascribes blame to an abstract entity. This removes a force from action on behalf of the individual who won't act on his own accord. The media and elites understand this very well.
There are plenty of other examples of people being the sheep that most people are.
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