The root word of commandment is command. We suggest.

Faith is belief in something unseen. I've seen that if I work AA, I stay sober. I've also seen in others that if I don't, I won't. That's a fact of life for Chuck.

I wish I could force newcomers to get this stuff. I've been to two meetings in as many days, where this was discussed. Every one of us have several stories of people we've worked with who went back out and met an untimely demise. But all we can do is share our experiences and help them if they are willing, we can't give them the willingness. I wish you were right, Lou, I wish we could be as prolific and evangelical as churches. But there must be some little bit of us in you, Lou, because we drunks are just as skeptical as you, just as fast to run like hell away from anything that would control us, anything that would set off our hypersensitive bullshit detectors. That's why it is like it is, all we can do is suggest, and share our stories, and help when we are asked.

-Chuck, Vegetarian fanboy