Comment on Anon doesn't enjoy anything

rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s certainly doesn’t help that AA has a religious component. I think that turns a lot of people off of it.

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Also seems to indoctrinate a lot of people if they aren’t turned off from the get-go. IMO it’s predatory.

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• mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Though I’ll admit that secular organisations rarely have the knack for creating the kind of organisation that churches have

  That’s because secular organizations generally aren’t looking to make giant cults that they can coax 10% of their income from

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The churches in my country are fairly humble compared to that …

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• Taalnazi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Secular organisations do have them, it’s called going to bars, taking up a hobby club, and so on.

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    ‘going to bars’ doesn’t have organisation and rarely has community, and it encourages problematic drug use which is just about the last thing people like this need. Hobby clubs are much harder to find than churches, and I’d say due to social norms they’re generally not as willing to go into dealing with emotions as churches tend to be. Even if churches are too eager to manipulate you into feeling certain things about certain topics.

    IMO, even a worker’s union would have been a better example than yours, but it’s obviously much more single-topic than a church - they don’t usually get involved in marriages or burials, and they tend to be just as gender-segregated as the trades they represent.

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    • Taalnazi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You certainly do have community, and it doesn’t encourage problematic drug use, that’s fearmongering.

      If anything’s encouraging problematic drug use, it’s the fascist dipshits.

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      • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s a place that sells alcohol. I’m not pro-prohibition or anything like that, but a bar is just not a good place for someone with mental health issues.

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