Unfortunately you are incorrect.
AA never forced its member to sit in chairs 12 hours a day and never rewarded family affection for progression.
aa never restricted food intake as a therapy
aa never used sleep deprivation to weaken one for conditioning.
aa never requires you to stop talking to outsiders.
aa never "breaks" its member and then rebuilds it in the image of the group.
aa never required worship of the leader
aa never refused to let you read a book or call your family
aa members arent required to Motivate and sit straight, eyes to the front and their backs not touching the chairs or face punishment.
aa never did many things that were considered part of "treatment" in the seed.
It is anything but "as simple as that", anon. I am well aware that many techniques..the steps, serenity prayer, confessionals, etc. came from AA, and that Art continues even to this day to chant this mantra, that it all came from AA, but that is obviously totally falicious.
Tell us why you think you can make such a conclusionary statement with such certainty, Anon, and if you are new here..
welcome to this forum..
[ This Message was edited by: GregFL on 2004-02-20 15:42 ]