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- From: lewis@aera8700.mitre.org (Keith Lewis)
- Subject: Re: Narcotics Anonymous = a cult?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.151307.1918@linus.mitre.org>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:13:07 GMT
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- In article <1joi5bINN25r@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>, kkruse@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Korey J. Kruse) writes:
- >As a sidenote I find it amusing that people are often forced to attend
- >AA or NA by judges when I remember distinctly hearing 50-100 times
- >every session that "nobody can help an alcoholic that does not want to
- >help themselves." What do they do with these people that don't want
- >to be there, but are forced by others to attend ?
-
- They refuse to cooperate with the legal system. Sure, they will sign your
- slip, but they will not provide the governent with a list of authorized
- list-signers (it's supposed to be *anonymous*!). So the judge can order you
- to attend meetings, but he won't know whether the AA/NA people signed it or
- you found out the places and times (from the AA _Where & When_) and had
- your drinking buddies make up a bunch of names.
-
- Keith Lewis klewis@mitre.org "Mr. Cheap"
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