Bill W.'s Legacy: A Deep Dive into AA's Foundational Wisdom

Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. It's a remarkable thing. And, you know, I don't know if, I don't know if I mentioned this last week or it happened in between, but so I'm talking with this individual who it was, it was basically a work, it's basically a work conversation. And they were talking about somebody with a serious substance abuse problem. And, you know, it's complicated the treatment and the family and all this stuff. And, you know, I would, he goes, I wish there was something that we could do, you know, with somebody like that, you know, cause AA sucks. AA sucks. What he meant was he can't just put this guy in a car and drive him and drop him off at AA and we'll, and we'll house them and treat them. And in 60 days, you know, we'll send them back home. And I had to explain to him, I go, I go, well, AA really isn't treatment, right? AA is designed to, once someone is separated from alcohol, to have them put together a life, a structure that is conducive to them staying abstinent. That's what AA does. We don't claim to be a treatment process like a, like a detox or a 28 day place. And he didn't know that, you know, there's so, there's so much, there's so much misinformation out there, you know, and there's so many people who have a bad attitude or a bad, uh, you know, bad, uh, impression of Alcoholics Anonymous because of crazy belief systems, you know, they don know, they lack any experience with people who could, you know, show them that there's probably a better way to look at it than the way they're looking at it.