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Pete Hegseth Calls For Steep Cuts To Number Of Steps In AA Recovery

theonion.com Pete Hegseth Calls For Steep Cuts To Number Of Steps In AA Recovery

WASHINGTON—Lambasting the current program as wasteful, bloated, and entirely unnecessary, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called for steep cuts Monday to the number of steps in the Alcoholics Anonymous recovery model. “We must cut through the red tape bogging down what could be a far more efficient A...

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I mean look I hate to say it but Imaginary Pete Hegseth's got a point. Y'all actually read these steps? Step 2 is just "decide to do Step 3", Step 5 is just Step 1 again but louder, Step 6 is "get ready to do Step 7", Step 8 is "make a list of all the stuff you have to do for Step 9", Step 10 is just "Keep doing Step 4", and then Steps 11 and 12 don't matter because Step 10 is an endless loop. How many innocent Americans (and Pete) are we gonna leave trapped on Step 10 before someone finally does something?
- You're just defending him so he'll keep you in his group chat aren't you?
- Oh man, this is the fucking truth. I'm court mandated to go to AA, and it's driving me up the wall. The steps are ridiculous and the true believers will endlessly drone on about how amazing and effective they are. It's literally just religious fundamentalist ideology (AA itself was created by Bill Wilson, who was part of a religious organization called the Oxford Group, and used their existing principles to create the 12 Steps). The organization is definitely a cult, the largest operating and hiding in plain sight cult in the world. It's crazy how prolific it is and most people don't realize it is a Christian temperance cult.
  
  I went because I was so desperate to get sober I didn't know what else to do. Years later I still pop in to see some friends. Its a classic case of selection bias (the people who stay).
  There were some interesting figures in the early aa that got drowned out. Bill w himself loved hallucinogens and thought they held promise.
  I hate that courts make people go there. So so so fucked up because its religious, despite what they say.
  I dont know if you could try something else over zoom to sign your court cards like SMART or recovery dharma but my atheist self found both of those more palatable, I even did the facilitator training for SMART.
  Either way, good luck and im sorry youre forced to go

Like Mel Brooks playing Moses. "Welcome to our Twelve-step... [drops stone tablet, which smashes]... eight! Our Eight-Step program!"

13th step: Nyquil
- 13th step is sleeping with someone in your recovery group, especially someone newer than you. This is frowned upon.
  
  Pretty sure this is how you end up starting a series of fight clubs across the country

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