I just read Stephen King’s latest book, Dr. Sleep, and Mr. King discusses his recent time in AA.
Years ago I wrote a lot about my time in drug and alcohol recovery and the experience of being a sponsor. I especially wrote about the fifth step in the Twelve Steps.
It won’t give away any of the plot if I say that at the end of the book, King says exactly what I said years ago about the fifth step.
The fourth step is the long one, when you write down over a long period of time every single fault you have and every single thing you are ashamed of.
The fifth step is the short one, which you dread like poison. You have to tell one person EVERYTHING you wrote in the fourth step.
Yes, EVERYTHING. Most people dread something about sex they think is especially disgusting.
In a time when I was on my ass, it made me feel good that so many people chose ME to tell their most dreaded secrets to.
But, as usual with tragic situations, I told you the funny side of the fifth step.
The victim would reveal what was to him his most disgusting secret. He had been dreading this for months. Can you imagine telling someone what you consider the most shameful thing you have ever done, or more usually, your most disgusting urges?
Then you get a shock.
As a many times Fifth Step veteran, let me tell you that what you consider humiliating beyond belief, what you have dreaded revealing for months, is simply not that big a deal to the recovering addict you are confessing to.
I said this many times years ago:
1) A person who is finally doing the Dreaded Fifth Step Confesses His Sin.
2) But the Sin that is a huge deal to you is not a huge deal to me.
Naturally the Secret King’s hero finally told to an AA meeting was much more dramatic than what I heard.
But the result was exactly the same.
He made the confession that he could not bring himself to make in front of his own sponsor.
He was crying, he told them, at long last, of his guilt and his shame. He expected a horrified reaction.
What he got was a roomful of people who wanted to finish their coffee.
Nobody is in AA because they went to church too often.
They finished their coffee and went home.
A hell of an ending to a hell of a book.
#1 by Henry Davenport on 10/05/2013 - 4:14 pm
“You need to check into a good 12-step recovery program for Anti-Whites…”
Any possibilities of some line like that one being useful?
I think coupling our terminology to matters that have everyday currency puts our terminology in the parts of people’s brains where all their other everyday stuff is.
#2 by seapea on 10/05/2013 - 7:08 pm
“You need to check into a good 12-step recovery program for Anti-Whites…”
I like that HD.
Anti-Whites Annonymous, the other AA.
#3 by Asgardian on 10/05/2013 - 4:24 pm
In my opinion I get the feeling that bobs latest writing is a methaphor for some of us goin public…
#4 by seapea on 10/05/2013 - 7:05 pm
Yes, confess the SIN of being Pro-White and believing White people have a right to exist. OMG! lol
#5 by Fred Richthofen on 10/06/2013 - 8:53 am
I think you nailed it Asgardian.
How many capable people here are afraid of going public because of a closet full of skeletons?
Becoming openly pro-White is a twelve step program.
#6 by Asgardian on 10/06/2013 - 10:08 pm
Its not the skeletons that scare me…I dont have much to fear from my own life.
Its what they will do to my posterity and spouse that keeps me up at night.
#7 by Truck Roy on 10/06/2013 - 1:27 am
When I first called into a podcast Don Black was doing on Stormfront, my voice was quivering and I had butterflies in my stomach. As I got more involved, I figured that I would get the secret password and someone would tell me the REAL plan. Finding out that no one had a plan was quite anti-climatic.
Then I learned that intelligence agencies spend most of their budget on propaganda and Whitaker knows a lot about propaganda. How do you break massive conditioning? I was on the edge of my seat. Oh. You just tell a simple truth over and over and over…
I can handle that.
#8 by GregP on 10/06/2013 - 4:12 pm
I’ve always found Bob’s posts about 12-step related stuff very interesting. I’m not sure I understand this one’s relation to the SWARM, however, I am positive Bob and I aren’t the only pro-Whites with some experience in 12-step programs (and that there are many more who could use them).
My experience is that they (12 step programs) WORK, despite all of the things I personally have issues with in them. If Bob could benefit from working the 12 steps and do what he’s done and doing, I think a lot of pro-Whites could. God knows we’re riddled with alcoholics/addicts of one form or another. Imagine if all (or even a portion of!) that energy spent using was diverted to posting the Mantra…
#9 by StopWhiteGeNOcide on 10/06/2013 - 10:42 pm
http://www.scotsman.com/news/gerald-warner-impact-of-politically-correct-britain-1-3128346
“Political correctness is cultural Marxism.”
“The instruments of subversion are mass immigration and multiculturalism, to abolish homogeneity and national identity; the imposition of politically correct language (foreseen by Orwell as “Newspeak”) to prevent the articulation of dissident ideas; hate laws (also predicted by Orwell as “thought crime”); ”
“Their common adherence to cultural Marxism has made all three political parties complicit in a de facto one-party state”
#10 by StopWhiteGeNOcide on 10/06/2013 - 11:01 pm
That story is begging for the mantra, but it will not allow me to comment. The author is on Twitter so for any Twitter people:
Twitter: @GeraldWarner1
#11 by Henry Davenport on 10/06/2013 - 11:39 pm
I was able to post a mini. Don’t know how long it will last.
#12 by seriouswon on 10/14/2013 - 12:53 am
Some of us have discussed forming support groups for Whites recovering from the effects of dealing with the ongoing genocide of our people.