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Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship designed and administered by a bunch of ex drunks whose only qualification for membership is that they can’t hold their grog and don’t want to learn how.
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It has no rules, dues or fees – nothing that any sensible organisation seems to require.
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At meetings, the speakers start on one subject and end up talking about something entirely different, concluding by saying I don’t really know anything about the programme except that it works.
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The groups are always broke but always seem to have money; they are always losing members, but always seem to grow; they claim A.A. is a selfish program but always seem to be doing things for others.
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Every group passes laws, rules, edicts and pronouncements which everyone blithely ignores.
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Member’s who disagree with anything, are privileged to walk out in a huff – only to return as if nothing had happened, and to be greeted accordingly.
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Nothing is planned more than 24 hours ahead – yet great projects are born and survive magnificently.
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Perhaps it is because we have learned to laugh at ourselves: God made man – He made laughter too.
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Perhaps He is pleased with our efforts and makes everything right no matter who pushes the wrong buttons.
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Maybe He is pleased not with our perfections but with our sincerity.
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Maybe He is pleased because we are trying to be nobody but ourselves.
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We don’t know how, but it works, and members keep receiving their dividend checks from the A.A. Investment.