Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship designed and administered by a bunch of ex-drunks whose only qualification for membership is that they can't hold their booze and don't want to learn how.
It has no rules, dues or fees; nothing that any sensible organization seems to require.
At meetings, the speaker starts on one subject and winds up talking about something entirely different and concludes by saying that they don't know anything about the program except that it works.
The group is always broke, yet always seem to have enough money to carry on. They are always losing members but seem to grow. They claim AA is a selfish program but always seem to be doing something for others.
Every group passes laws, rules, edicts, and pronouncements which everyone ignores. Members who disagree with anything are privileged to walk out in a huff, quitting forever, only to return as though nothing happened and be greeted accordingly.
Nothing is ever planned 24 hours ahead, yet great projects are born and survive magnificently. Nothing in AA is according to "Hoyle." How can it survive?
Perhaps it is because we have learned to live and laugh at ourselves. God made man. God made laughter. Perhaps our Higher Power is pleased with our disorganized efforts and makes things run right no matter who pushes the wrong button. Maybe God is pleased, not with perfection, but because we are trying to be nobody but ourselves. We don't know how it works but it does ... and members keep receiving their dividend checks from their AA investments.