C ompete was the first delegate in her Area (what a honnor!). This was over 35 years ago. She was never elected anywhere after that but she is still pulling strings "in the shadow", in the background of her Area while being accountable to no one. She is more influential at the Area World Service Committee than the very Officials that have been presumably elected at the Area Assembly. How useful is it to elect puppets at Area Assemblies? Asked about this, Compete tells us (she too!) that "ordinary members don't have to know that!"

Compete is all grateful for Family Groups. She believes absoluteluy no one after her would ever be as competent as she to do as much. FGs will not survive after her departure! The matter is that Compete never took responsability for her mariage failure (nor for her sexuality) and she never ceased blaming men for that. How pityful!

Meanwhile her superwoman friend Enabler stirs a lot of air and wind to attract teenagers to Family Groups. No way will she think of attracting men to FGs for she hates them all eternally and will accept none but those she can dominate, use, manipulate, control or manoeuver. If there is no room for men in this "wonderful" Fellowship (barely 12% in 2003), is there room for teenagers? Let's keep it simple, no room for men means no future for this Fellowship. Or must one be a hypocrite? Yea! Men are monsters, pedophiles and all, and Enablers are saints and carnival queens! When servants do not do what Compete and Enabler expect them to do... How shameful!

Compete and Enabler had a negative experience with their ex-husbands who died meanwhile. They believe all men whithout exception are like the only one they have ever known. Compete and Enabler have lost touch with reality, they are schizophrenics. They hate women just about as much as they do men. Who do they hate the most? ...

Two women founded Family Groups in the early fifties in USA. I believe they should have brought a man along with them right from the beginning. This would have made the image of the Fellowship much more realistic and positive. But since history cannot be undone, other means will have to be found to change the public image of this "wonderful" Fellowship from that of a WASP-WC (White Anglo-Saxon and Protestant Woman's Club!) to what it ought to be. Otherwise, if nothing is done to change that men-monsters mentality, I wonder what there will be left of Family Groups in 15 years from now.

In spite of all the suffering that men and women induce to each other, I believe men and women are made to walk the path together or else...

H e had been a christian missionary to India for close to ten years. When he came back to his country, in the early 1970's, young people sang on the streets: Hare Krishna! And he would not understand that. He thought the youth had become crazy. He blamed Krishna's Disciples for bringing to his country a religion that, according to him, was dying out there. But this is exactly what he had been doing for ten years: he had been endeavering to carry out to India a religion that was dying in his own country. He could sing high and strong Kyrie Eleison! the echoing answer was always: Hare Krishna! He then retired and left it to would-be followers to manage the decline.

So is it with "missionary" servants in FGs. Some of them don't see, cannot or will not see that "the times, they are a changin"! -- "There are those, too, who suffer from grave emotional and mental disorders, but many of them do recover if they have the capacity to be honest." Alcoholics Anonymous, chapter 5, "How It Works".

T wo teenagers told each other about their future plan. "What are you going to be in life?" The first one used to say he would stay in his hometown, finish school, get a specific skill, get married, have children, raise his family, etc. The other teenager rather whished to leave his hometown, travel around the world and have experiences and adventures of all sorts: spiritual, sexual, professionnal, etc.

Both teenagers lived up to their dreams. The first one stayed in his hometown, got a degree, got married, raised his family, etc. The other teenager went traveling and working abroad in many far-away countries, had numerous spiritual, sexual and professionnal experiences, etc. Eventualy, he came back to his native hometown.

The two mature men then told each other their personnal story. "What have you done in life?" The first one said he stayed in his hommetown, finished school, had a trade, raised his family, etc. The other one said he went traveling and working abroad in many far-out countries, had numerous mystical, sexual and professionnal experiences, etc.

By the nearing end of their journey, both had done what they had planned, had to overcome each his trials, etc. None was any happier nor any unhappier than the other and yet years had gone by... (For details see: Herman Hesse, Siddharta, 1923)

"Love and do what you will"
...inasmuch as you do it with love!
-- Saint Augustine