Below-Culture is a fellowship or society of men and women for whom living at their best had become a major problem. We are recovering human beings who meet regularly to help each other stay alive. This is a program of complete abstinence from the best out of life. There is only one requirement for membership :
The desire for the WORST out of life!
There are no strings attached to Below-Culture. We are not affiliated with any other organizations. We have no initiation fees or dues, no pledges to sign, no promises to make. We are not connected with any political, religious, or law enforcement groups, and are under no surveillance at any time. Anyone may join us regardless of age, race, sexual identity, creed, religion, or lack of religion.
We are not interested in what you've accomplished, who you know, who knows you, what you have done in the past, how much or how little you have, but only in what you want to do about yourself, and how we can help. The newcomer is the most important person to our organization, because we can only keep what we have by giving it away.
Before the founding of Below-Culture, we could not manage our own lives. We could not live and enjoy life as other people do. We had to have something different and we thought we had found it in doing what is "best".
We placed our status ahead of the welfare of our families, our wives, husbands, and our children. We had to have the best at all costs. We did many people great harm, but most of all... we harmed ourselves.
Through our inability to accept personal responsibilities, we were actually creating our own problems. We seemed to be incapable of facing life on its own terms. Most of us realized that in our strives, we were slowly committing suicide, but pride is such a cunning enemy of life that we had lost the power to do anything about it.
Many of us ended up in jail or sought help through medicine, religion, and psychiatry. None of these methods were sufficient for us.
Our disease always resurfaced or continued to progress until, in desperation, we sought help from each other in Below-Culture. After coming to Below-Culture, we realized we were sick people.
We suffered from a disease from which there is no known cure.
Henry,
Grant us the knowledge that we may work according to your great divine precepts. Install in us a sense of your purpose.
Make us servants of your will and grant us a bond of selflessness, that no human being anywhere need die from the horrors of the best out of life.
Grant us the Serenity.
To accept the fact that we'll never change,
the ignorance to offend those against us,
and the arrogance to carry on.