{"id":17044,"date":"2024-03-02T16:55:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T16:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/?p=17044"},"modified":"2024-03-04T01:26:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T01:26:01","slug":"amidah-for-dummies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/2024\/03\/02\/amidah-for-dummies\/","title":{"rendered":"the 12 steps are the Amidah For Dummies (G-yim)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Although it would be correct in a sense to say that Bill and Bob plagiarized the Oxford Group\u2019s \u201c5 C\u2019s\u201d<\/a>, which a lot of people are aware of, the fact that there are twelve steps and that they contain very specific and detailed steps that go above and beyond the 5 C\u2019s, suggests that the 12 steps are actually from the Amidah. And further the work of finding the \u201clost\u201d (lost in a bottle or a baggie or in sin and decadence or insanity) of Israel. Amazing Grace was about a lost and blind wretch, it wasn\u2019t<\/strong> about a \u201cwinner\u201d who was \u201cspiritual\u201d and only showed up in jail with everyone else for singing hymns too loudly during the service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Convincing someone to attend meetings and recite the 12 steps at the opening of every meeting is a way to get the group to \u201cpray the Amidah\u201d or .. something akin to it .. very obliquely and indirectly in a controlled fashion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, it\u2019s manipulative. Like Jews are in general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just as when Dr Bob said \u201cbill you\u2019re going to scare those drunks to death with that white flash spiritual jumbo\u201d and so they dumbed it down for those \u201cstupid drunks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Were they wrong? I\u2019ve sat here railing and bitching and carping and flailing and flaming to the world about how stupid some of them are. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe Dr Bob had a point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the “12 steps” make you feel closer to God or spirtuality hmm maybe where there’s smoke there’s fire<\/strong>… but as with clergy sex abuse , or with gays and lesbians being told theyre damned to hell in a church, AA and NA and their ilk are rife with spiritual abuse, gossip, sabotage, bullying, sex\/financial predators that turn them of to “the program” and at some point we refuse to crawl back to our abusers even as they scream “you’re nothing without me” “shun the non believer! stay away from her!” or “you’ll die.” (or in the egregious<\/strong> example of the NA Chatroom, never mind drugs<\/strong>, the members<\/strong> threaten to kill you!)<\/em> And that’s what makes AA\/NA an evil and insidious cult<\/strong> in which neither god nor truth live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1. In the first one we refer to G\u2011d as \u201cThe One who shields Abraham.\u201d6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n