the "real truth" about "AA"

Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship designed and
administered by a bunch of ex-drunks whose only
qualification is that they can't hold their booze and
don't want to learn how. It has no rules, dues, or
fees; nothing that any sensible organization seems to
require. At meetings, the speaker starts on one
subject and winds up talking about something entirely
different and concludes by saying that he doesn't know
anything about the program except that it works, The
groups are always broke, yet always seem to have money
to carry on. They are always losing members but seem
to grow. They claim A.A. is a selfish program but
always seem to be doing something for others.

Every group passes laws, edicts, rules, and
pronouncements which everyone ignores.

Members who disagree with anything are privileged to
walk out in a huff, quitting forever, only to return
as though nothing happened and be greeted accordingly.
Nothing is ever planned 24 hours ahead, yet great
projects are born and survive magnificently. Nothing
in A.A. is according to Hoyle. How can it survive?
Perhaps it is because we have learned to live and
laugh at ourselves. God made man, He made laughter
too. Perhaps He is pleased with our disorganized
efforts and makes things run right no matter who
pushes the wrong button. Maybe He is pleased, not with
perfection, but because we are trying to be nobody but
ourselves. We don't know how it works but it does and
members keep receiving their dividend check from their
A.A. investments...that dividend is freedom.