2.
Multiple Home Groups - What are the pros and cons of having more
than one home group?
Background
Leaflet
“The AA Group”
Book
“The Home Group: Heartbeat of AA”
Comment:
Well from the cult's point of view a couple of home groups is an
efficient way of 'spreading the disease'. You have one group which
is 'on message' (ie. cult) and then another which is mainstream AA
where cult dogma can more widely be disseminated (eg. sponsorship
worship etc). The cult's been doing this for years especially where
they can insert one of their members into the group secretary's
position. Then you end up with a sequence of extremely boring
'scripted' chairs who mainly share their lack of experience, strength
and hope substituting instead the rather threadbare message composed
mostly of “emotional froth” such as: “happy, joyous and free”,
“never had a bad day”, “my sponsor says this and my sponsor
says that” etc until finally the regulars crack and either agree to
a mutual suicide pact or more constructively sack the offender! For
our part we can't see a particularly good reason for having more than
one home group. After all does anyone actually NEED two homes! And,
of course, you may be disposed to the vagrant way of life and prefer
to have NONE at all! It's not a requirement for membership nor is it
“essential” to recovery
Cheers
The Fellas (Friends of Alcoholics Anonymous)
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