In Reply to: Re: For Susie, Jewlz..OMG! This is funny posted by susie on January 06, 2007 at 03:14:26:
Jo doesn't put down 12 step programs, she puts down a specific kind of 12 step group, the ones that end with one or more individuals in those groups becoming the guru(s) to the group.
From personal experience I've seen this happen, and all I had to do was to change groups. Like you said, "it's better than the alternative", I'd be dead from alcoholism if I didn't have AA.
Most groups and most people in AA, the mainstream as Jo says, know all about people who become guru-like, and we have a good laugh about them, unless of course they've doen something to offend us or tick us off and then it might take us years to get over the resentment. :-)
I've found an independence to develop my own personal belief system in mainstream AA that is anarchic in terms of religion. (Anarchy defined in terms of the absence of the imposition of rules.)