Commentary on the Triennial Survey of Alcoholics Anonymous members:
Demographic 2007 2011
Non-white % 14.9 13
Females % 33 35
Average Age 47 49
Average Sobriety 8 yrs 9.9
Meetings/week 2.4 2.6
members (Millions) 1.99 2.13
under 21 %
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Aug 15 2012
Warning: To worship reason could have us kneeling at the alter of a false god
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt has a book out called, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. He has something to say about sobriety, or what we might call, “sober second thought.” Do you consider reason…
Jun 25 2012
The Man who fomed AA never got to join AA
Time Magazine released a list of the top 100 most influential people of the twentieth century. Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilson is on that list. Like Opera Winfrey, Bill Gates, Sigmund Freud or any other others on the top…
May 9 2012
What a Concept! AAs Concept Five threats minorities and unpopular opinions as rights-bearing equals
Background: In Toronto Canada a new era of AA stewardship is sweeping AA Intergroup. It is the era of governance, enforcement and homogeneity of a controlled interpretation of the message of Alcoholics Anonymous. If Bill Wilson were here today and…
Feb 5 2012
Subjectivity of my Reality
The only problem with reality…
The only problem with reality is there are so many versions of it. Game Time: Think of a 12-Step meeting you look forward to going to. Now think of one that makes you roll…
The only problem with reality is there are so many versions of it. Game Time: Think of a 12-Step meeting you look forward to going to. Now think of one that makes you roll…
Jan 8 2012
What can the Toronto Problem tell us about AAs Population Stagnation Worldwide?
As the Christian calendar rolled over to 2012, another AA member asked me why I thought AA was no longer growing. Like me, he remembers the 1970s and 1980s when perpetual population growth in AA was expected. AA population, which…
Dec 27 2011
The role of reading in maintaining mental and emotional fitness
“Books are carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.” Henry David Thoreau
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Dec 19 2011
Some previous musings from Rebellion Dogs
12 Steps, Over 300 Disorders, and Recovery in a Mad, Mad World
How will you do your next Step 4? Do you use the AA Big Book list of resentments, fears and sex- conduct? Or will you us the…
How will you do your next Step 4? Do you use the AA Big Book list of resentments, fears and sex- conduct? Or will you us the…
Nov 23 2011
"Keep me safe in the company of those who seek truth and safe from the company of those...
... who claim to have found it." I wish I knew who to credit for this quote.
I remember a columnist who wrote a book called, Often Wrong, Never in Doubt. I wish I had thought of that. I…
I remember a columnist who wrote a book called, Often Wrong, Never in Doubt. I wish I had thought of that. I…