tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-817345361425420071.post3217303946924218343..comments2023-10-07T06:13:33.676-04:00Comments on Stop, Drop, Recover: the 16 stepsFireman Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12710409467128106051noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-817345361425420071.post-48495734712738567812009-05-22T02:18:58.790-04:002009-05-22T02:18:58.790-04:00Dear Jack,
You are a "good man!"
You will be in m...Dear Jack,<br />You are a "good man!"<br /><br />You will be in my prayers.<br /><br />Love<br />MickyAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07940745178193985942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-817345361425420071.post-17685578859682221982009-05-21T17:10:05.000-04:002009-05-21T17:10:05.000-04:00ALCOHOLISM IS NOT A DISEASE
By Gerald Brown, Bald...ALCOHOLISM IS NOT A DISEASE<br /><br />By Gerald Brown, Baldwin Research Institute, Inc.<br /><br />The <I>“recovery”</I> community’s adoption of the disease concept began with an early AA member named Marty Mann. Her efforts, combined with a somewhat dubious scientist named E.M. Jellinek, began national acceptance of the disease concept. <br /><br />It was Jellinek’s <I>“scientific”</I> study that opened the door for the medical communities’ support. E.M. Jellinek’s study was funded by the efforts of Marty Mann. And, like so many other circumstances involving Jellinek and Marty Mann, the study was bogus if not outright fraudulent. <br /><br />The surveys he based his conclusions on were from a handpicked group of alcoholics. <br />There were 158 questionnaires handed out and 60 of them were suspiciously not included. His conclusion was based on less than 100 handpicked alcoholics chosen by Marty Mann. <br /><br />Mrs. Mann, of course, had a personal agenda to remove the stigma about the homeless and dirty alcoholic or <I> “bowery drunk”</I> in order to gain financial support from the wealthy. <br /><br />By removing the stigma, the problem becomes one of the general population, which would then include the wealthy. <br /><br />The first step was Jellinek publishing his findings in his book <B>"The Stages of Alcoholism.”</B> Later, E.M. Jellinek was asked by Yale University to refute his own findings. <br /><br />He complied. E.M. Jellinek’s <B>Stages of Alcoholism</B> did not stand up to scientific scrutiny.<br /><br />Earlier in this century, the validity of the disease concept was often debated in medical circles. However, in 1956 the American Medical Association (AMA) proclaimed alcoholism an "illness."<br /><br />Then, in 1966, the AMA proclaimed <B>alcoholism a disease. </B> The decision was wrapped in controversy. <br /><br />Historically, Marty Mann had her hand in much of this and manipulated information and doctors into agreeing with the disease concept. <br /><br />Marty Mann used her position as founder of the NCA (National Counsel for Alcoholism) to promote the disease concept through Jellinek and a somewhat clandestine relationship with the founder of the <B>NIAAA</B> (National Institute for Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse) whose founder worked with Marty Mann during the institute’s early development. <br /><br />The founder of <B>NIAAA</B> (Smithers) was a major contributor to and promoter of the disease concept. <br /><br />It was his money that funded Jellinek’s work at Yale. Smithers was also responsible for gaining insurance coverage for patients in treatment (hence the 28 day program). <br /><br />Smithers was certainly not altruistic in his efforts. At that time he had already launched a treatment program for which he was lobbying for insurance payments. <br />Acceptance by the medical community was the only way this could happen; <B>alcoholism had to be a medical problem in order for medical insurance to pay for programs. </B>We can see the influence of these <I>“advances”</I> everyday in treatment programs. Today the treatment industry is a <B>multi-billion dollar industry, </B> with insurance paying the lion’s share of the costs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-817345361425420071.post-35373423964638339752009-05-21T17:08:25.941-04:002009-05-21T17:08:25.941-04:00Dear Johnny,
The only valid "Spiritual Awakening" ...Dear Johnny,<br />The only valid "Spiritual Awakening" that we should share with others is the spiritual regeneration found only in <B>Christ,</B> and any other <I>"spiritual awakening"</I> is demonic deception which leaves men <I>"spiritually dead."</I>Obviously, Christians are not to engage in any kind of interaction with <B>demonic forces,</B> but are to resist them and to oppose them, in the name of Jesus Christ and through the authority of a saved believer in Him. <br /><br />Bill Wilson's error was in seeking a supernatural power, any supernatural power, rather than the one true God. His experience with the powerful seduction of this <B>white light</B> was one of his key motivations in forming Alcoholics Anonymous.<br /><br />Love<br />MickyAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07940745178193985942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-817345361425420071.post-20335915660605591352009-05-21T17:05:19.720-04:002009-05-21T17:05:19.720-04:00Alcoholics Anonymous is not the effective "Wonder ...Alcoholics Anonymous is not the effective <B>"Wonder Cure"</B> society has been taught to believe that it is. <br /><br />What AA does do, however, is to introduce those who are exposed to it, <I>"to seek after other gods, whom they have not known..."</I> Those who attend their meetings or read their literature, or receive their counseling are told that <B>any god</B> at all will do. <br /><br />AA teaches people to worship <B>"god as they understand him"</B> - or would like him to be, a god of their own making, a god created in their own image, or even the particular AA group of people with whom they meet, they are told, may serve as their "god."<br /><br />The most <B>frightening aspect</B> of seeking a <B>"lesser god,"</B> is the possibility that they will find him, or that indeed they will welcome him in, for Jesus called <B>SATAN</B> the <I>"god of this world,"</I> and the <I>"ruler of this present age"</I> in the world's <I>"system,"</I> and Satan desires worship in any deceitful form he can receive it.<br /><br />If they would only turn to the <B>"one true God,"</B> the God of the Bible, they would find, as God promises in His Holy Word, that <B>"with God all things are possible."</B> (Mark 10:27mg159http://livejournal.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-817345361425420071.post-74328135022795431232009-05-21T16:58:58.617-04:002009-05-21T16:58:58.617-04:00Although his name is unfamiliar to most, Emanuel S...Although his name is unfamiliar to most, <B>Emanuel Swedenborg</B> was a great influence on <B>A.A. cofounder Bill Wilson,</B> and therefore a great influence on both <B>Alcoholics Anonymous</B> and the 12 Steps.<br /><br /><B>Emanuel Swedenborg</B> wrote of a <B>spiritual ‘twelve steps’</B> long before the creation of Alcoholics Anonymous. <br /><br />Swedenborg (1688-1772) has been called the “Father of modern spiritualism’ for good reason. <br /><br />Like Bill Wilson, <B>Swedenborg</B> communicated frequently with <B>familiar spirits</B> posing as deceased people or other spiritual entities.<br /><br />An extremely talented man who excelled in many fields, Swedenborg in the 1740s was troubled by strange dreams. Then, in 1745, something incredible happened. <br /><br />As Professor George P. Landow writes, “that night in 1745 his visions began to invade his waking life as well. <br /><br />As he ate, he became aware of frogs and snakes crowding into his private dining room, and an unknown gentleman materialized in a comer to rebuke him for eating too much. <br /><br />Back home in Salisbury Court the stranger appeared again, and introduced himself as Christ, the man-God, creator and redeemer of the world. <br /><br />He then made an important announcement: humanity stood in need of a definitive explication of holy Scripture, and Swedenborg had been selected to provide it; moreover, to assist him in his labours, he was to be given unrestricted access to the entire spirit world.”[1] <br /><br />http://mywordlikefire.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/the-first-version-of-the-12-steps/p160http://wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-817345361425420071.post-77666204165185059122009-05-20T11:48:07.960-04:002009-05-20T11:48:07.960-04:00i'm gonna read these again. they make good sense.i'm gonna read these again. they make good sense.Shadowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05999801833389058410noreply@blogger.com