Bill Wilson hated alcoholics !! !

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Alcoholics Anonymous as a Cult
Scorecard, Answers 1 to 10
by A. Orange

So how does A.A. score as a cult? On a scale of zero to ten, where
zero means that it isn't like a cult at all, and ten means that A.A.
is really like a cult, I score A.A. like this: (Feel free to grab a
piece of paper, and make up your own scores. It isn't like I own a
monopoly on the truth, or anything...)

(To go back and forth between the questions and the answers for
Alcoholics Anonymous, click on the numbers of the questions and
answers.)


1. The Guru is always right.
The Guru, his organization, and his teachings are all considered above
criticism and beyond reproach.
A.A. scores a 10 on this one.


William Griffith Wilson
November 26 1895 - January 24 1971
Born: East Dorset, Vermont
One just does not criticize the Founders, Bill Wilson and Doctor Bob,
or their wonderful program. Bill Wilson's "Big Book" — really titled
"Alcoholics Anonymous" — is cited as the ultimate answer for
everything, a new Bible for contemporary alcoholics. If Bill said
something, then it is automatically true. In the eyes of the A.A.
faithful, Bill Wilson never made a mistake after he started A.A., and
never gave bad advice to any A.A. member. Bill Wilson was a paragon of
sanity, clarity, wisdom, and honesty.

Many of the true believers in Alcoholics Anonymous actually believe
that Bill Wilson's writings were inspired by God, just like the Bible.
They say that Wilson wrote the Twelve Steps while receiving guidance
from God. The faithful reverently pore over books like The Big Book,
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, and As Bill Sees It as if they
were holy scriptures, rather than the ravings of a lunatic. Bill's
writings in the Big Book — "the first 164 pages" — are considered to
be so sacred that they cannot ever be updated, fixed, or changed. The
4th edition of the Big Book was just released, and the first 164 pages
are still unchanged. Not a single lie or error was corrected.

The faithful stubbornly ignore the fact that the Big Book and Bill
Wilson's other writings demonstrate all too clearly that he was
suffering from Delusions of Grandeur, specifically "Delusional
(Paranoid) Disorder, Grandiose Type, mental disorder number 297.10" as
described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
of the American Psychiatric Association, on pages 200 to 203 in the
third edition (DSM-III-R), and on pages 297 to 301 in the fourth
edition (DSM-IV).

Bill Wilson was also a textbook case of "Narcissistic Personality
Disorder, mental disorder number 301.81" — again, as described in the
DSM-IV, on pages 658-661.

The faithful also pointedly ignore the overwhelming evidence that Bill
Wilson was

* selfish, manipulative,
* superstitious,
* egotistical, arrogant,
* vicious,
* financially dishonest,
* a philandering sexual predator,
* a liar,
* a con artist, and
* insane.

The faithful even ignore the fact that Bill Wilson took sexual
advantage of sick women who came to A.A. seeking help to avoid death
from alcohol. While women were still shaky, cloudy-headed, and
confused from alcohol poisoning and alcohol withdrawal, Bill Wilson
was scheming to get into their pants. That is an especially heartless
kind of exploitation of vulnerable people.



Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith
August 8 1879 - November 16 1950
Born: Johnsbury, Vermont
Likewise, the true believers ignore the evidence that Dr. Robert
Smith, the other co-founder of A.A., had serious mental problems of
his own. The faithful proclaim was Dr. Bob was a wise saint, in spite
of the facts that:

* Doctor Bob seems to have been a power-tripping neurotic dogmatic
religious fanatic who got his kicks by having people surrender to God
on their knees before him. He was so narrow-minded that he wrote in
the Big Book that he feels sorry for you if you won't accept the
religious proclamations of the Bill and Bob team:

If you think you are an atheist, an agnostic, a skeptic, or
have any other form of intellectual pride which keeps you from
accepting what is in this book, I feel sorry for you.
The Big Book, 3rd & 4th Editions, Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith,
Doctor Bob's Story, Page 181.

* Doctor Bob was such an insane autocratic tyrant that he forced a
31-year-old alcoholic womanizer on his 17-year-old step-daughter Sue
Smith in order to break up her high-school romance with her teenage
boyfriend Ray Windows, whom Doctor Bob didn't like. The older
alcoholic was "A.A. Number Four" — the constantly-relapsing,
philandering, Ernie Galbraith — the author of the Big Book first
edition story "The Seven-Month Slip". The 'seven-month slip' was not a
small slip after seven months of sobriety; it was a full-blown
seven-month-long hard-drinking relapse after a year of sobriety.

You would think that Doctor Bob should have learned something
about Ernie from reading his autobiographical story in the Big Book,
but no, Doctor Bob didn't learn anything. Then, after Ernie took Susan
for himself, Doctor Bob complained bitterly that Ernie Galbraith had
"double-crossed him" by seducing Sue Smith.2
* Dr. Bob was so damaged by alcohol that he was apparently
incapable of supporting himself and his family while ostensibly still
practicing medicine. Dr. Bob had to be supported by an A.A. handout
for the rest of his life.
What kind of a doctor is so incapable of earning his own keep
that he has to be supported by charity?

See Item 38, Disturbed Guru, for more information on these two
sterling examples of sanity and wisdom.


2. You are always wrong.
The individual members of the cult are told that they are inherently
small, weak, stupid, ignorant, and sinful, and are in no way qualified
to judge the Guru or his church.
A.A. scores a 10 on this one too.

According to Bill Wilson and A.A., you are just a brain-damaged
alcoholic, "powerless over alcohol", your thinking is "alcoholic", and
you aren't qualified to judge A.A. or the teachings of Bill Wilson. If
you disagree with any of the insanity of A.A., it just proves that you
are diseased and in denial. Sober former drinkers who criticize A.A.
are dismissed as "dry drunks."

Applicable slogans include:

* "The program is perfect; it's just people who are imperfect."
* "Don't criticize the program."
* "The program never fails; people just fail the program."
* "You have a thinking problem, not a drinking problem."
* "Your best thinking got you here."
* "You need a checkup from the neck up."
* "Stop Your Stinkin' Thinkin'."
* "Stuff Your Feelings."
* "Feelings Aren't Facts."
* "Principles Before Personalities."
* "A person with one eye on yesterday and one eye on tomorrow is
living cockeyed."
* "Be Part Of The Solution, Not The Problem."
* "N.U.T.S. — Not Using the Steps."
* "Have A Good Day Unless You've Made Other Plans."
* "Let Go Of Old Ideas."3
* "P.L.O.M. = Poor Little Old Me."
* "You're only as sick as your secrets."
* "We're All Here Because We're Not All There."
* "Some people are so successful in recovery, they turn out to be
almost as good as they thought they were while drinking."
* "Take the cotton out of your ears and stick it in your mouth."
* "Sit Down, Shut Up, and Learn Something."
* "Alcoholics can't afford to have resentments."
* "Opinions are like ass-holes — everybody's got one, and most of
them stink."
* "He suffers from terminal uniqueness."
* "Get humble."
* "There is a God and you are not Him."

Members are shamed and made to feel small, weak, stupid and sinful by
constantly making lists of all of their faults, wrongs, moral
shortcomings, and defects of character, and confessing them both
privately and publicly. Members are taught to beat up on themselves:
the slogan is "You can't save your ass and your face at the same
time." And if they don't do a good enough job of it, their sponsors
will fill in the gaps in the "ego deflation," which is really
destruction of the new member's self-confidence, self-esteem,
self-respect, and ability to think and act independently.

And members are definitely taught to distrust their own minds and
their own feelings:

"Stop your stinkin' thinking'."
"Your best thinking got you here."
"You have a thinking problem, not a drinking problem."
"Stuff Your Feelings."
"Feelings Aren't Facts."
-- Popular A.A. slogans

"... no alcoholic ... can claim 'soundness of mind' for himself."
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, William Wilson, page 33.

* They will be told that their mind is useless, damaged by
alcohol, and is a great liability. They will be told that alcohol is
cunning, baffling, and powerful, and that their minds are being
controlled by their addiction to alcohol, and that their addiction
wants to kill them.
* They will be told that their old bad habits don't want to let go
of them, so any deviation from the program is proof that they are
diseased.
* Any disagreement with the standard dogma, or any attempt to
think and act independently, is interpreted as alcoholism dominating
the member's mind, and defeating his attempts at sobriety.

On top of all of that, Bill Wilson had a vicious hatred of alcoholics.
That may seem unlikely, since he supposedly dedicated his life to
unselfishly helping alcoholics and saving their lives, but it is true.
Bill Wilson actually denigrated alcoholics and put them down at every
opportunity. Bill dedicated the second half of his life to being a
cult leader and making alcoholics into his slaves who supported him in
comfort for the rest of his life, so that he never had to work again.
Bill Wilson actually hated himself, and had a vicious contempt for his
own faults and character flaws, so he projected his own failings onto
everyone around him. He created a very negative stereotype of "The
Alcoholic", and projected all of his faults onto that mythical
character, and then he said, "Look at how disgusting he is. We are all
like that."

Bill Wilson declared that:

* Alcoholics' personalities are dominated by "character defects"
(meaning: sins), particularly the Seven Deadly Sins of Pride, Greed,
Sloth, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, and Envy.
* Alcoholics are very dishonest, and will "wiggle out of" the
terms of a contract, if they can do it.
* Alcoholics are very selfish.
* Alcoholics are full of resentments.
* Alcoholics are an argumentative lot.
* Alcoholics are all stupid, superstitious, and cowardly.
* Alcoholics are manipulative, and will always try to get their
own way in some underhanded fashion.
* Alcoholics are completely selfish and inconsiderate. For some of
them, recruiting another member for A.A. was the first time in their
lives that they had ever committed an unselfish act.
* Alcoholics are all alike, and all alcoholics have immensely
inflated egos, and they are all pompous, self-important,
strutting-peacock fools. They think they are "the center of the
Universe", and too big and "too good to need God."
* Alcoholics even imagine that they are God (which is why Ernest
Kurtz wrote a very pro-AA book named "Not God").
* Alcoholics don't want to be moral.
o They don't want to be good.
o They don't want to do the right thing.
o They don't want to do what will help them to recover.
o They won't work the Twelve Steps until they "bottom out"
and "the lash of alcoholism" beats them into submission.
* The alcoholic doesn't like to live any place but in the past.
* See the file The 'Us Stupid Drunks' Conspiracy for much, much
more of Bill's ravings about how bad alcoholics are.

All of which leaves us with one big question, "If alcoholics are all
so bad, how could the leading alcoholic, Bill Wilson, be so
'spiritual'?"


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