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Flier think tank for AA/NA/TC and etcs..

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ZenAgent:
I'll look around.

Botched Programming:
After spending my years in the NA cult something that comes to mind is how just like any other cult, their literature is designed get in your head.

At the beginning of the meetings they pass out cards and read the propaganda that is written on them. What many people don't know is these are the words of "Jimmy K" the cult leader himself. If anyone has read NA's sacred book "The Basic Text," in almost every chapter in the first half has paragraphs that are "Italacized" these too are the words of their leader.

They say the message of the writings in the book is suppose to bring you hope, when it actually is designed to make a person think that they can not live without the program.

Che Gookin:
just remember.. confronting a system based on illogical thinking is best approached with logical facts. the act of humiliating a member of na or a cult in general has been proven to have the exact opposite effect. this is demonstrated by rick ross and his bungling of the waco siege where he encouraged the feebs to humiliate david koresh to attempt to lower his standing amongst his followers. it obviously didn't work at waco,  and direct confrontation didn't work at Benchmark either.

at benchmark each and every student was given the chance at a bus ticket home, and some food money... none of them took it.

you want these fliers to be nonconfrontational, but at the same time thought provoking.

ZenAgent:
Bill W. asked for a shot of whiskey before he kicked off, and the AA whackos around him refused, I guess to maintain Bill "died sober"...as if that really means shit.

ZenAgent:
http://www.icsahome.com/infoserv_bookre ... thecli.htm

There's a place to start...interesting quote, although maybe not useful in a flier critical of just the AA/NA crowd:

"Hopson on the AA 12-step programs being applied to non-substance-abuse treatment in an attempt to add nonreligious spirituality to therapy."

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