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3890
Dec Dec 1934 - Bill & Lois start attending Oxford Group meetings. Dec 1934 to May 1935 - Bill works with alcoholics, but fails to sober any of them. Lois...
chesbayman56
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Dec 2, 2006
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3891
I'm trying to locate the name of a consumption chart that was on the wall of the Baltimore Chip House (Charles Village meeting on Calvert Street) when I got...
twelvestepswetook
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Dec 2, 2006
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"High Praise for the Charm of Recovering Alcoholics" by Fulton Oursler There are times when I wish I were an alcoholic. I mean I wish I were a member of...
Bill Lash
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Dec 2, 2006
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3893
Diz wrote: "I have never read anywhere that the Oxford Group ever had sponsorship." They did not formally refer to helping a new man as "sponsorship." They did...
James Blair
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Dec 2, 2006
6:21 pm
3894
Does anyone have estimated numbers on the growth of online A.A. meeting participation? How many A.A. members use their digital meetings as their home groups...
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tommythe2
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Dec 2, 2006
6:25 pm
3895
http://www.in.gov/judiciary/ijlap/docs/jellinek.pdf this a good link for the Jellinek Curve. see if that looks familiar. I can check on the actual chart. Rob...
Rob White
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Dec 2, 2006
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3896
I have been putting together a one page pictorial history of the formation of AA for my sponsees. I have been unable to find a picture of Roland Hazard. Does...
ollie_olorenshaw
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Dec 2, 2006
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3897
Someone surprised me the other day with a question I've never heard ... On the dust jack to the first edition, on the back, at the bottom, is a money back...
sober_in_nc
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Dec 2, 2006
10:57 pm
3898
Edgar, I can not quote you "scripture and verse" but someone here no doubt can and hopefully will, but my memory is that the outcome was A.A. lost, dropped out...
hartsell
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Dec 2, 2006
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3899
Richard M. Dubiel, "Sober Sleuths: Lawrence Block and James Lee Burke" (1999), discusses the life and writings of these two best-selling authors of detective...
Glenn Chesnut
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Dec 3, 2006
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From: "Alex H" <odat@...> From an historical perspective, I think most AA members would collapse into a religious coma if I began reading from "The Upper...
Alex H
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Dec 3, 2006
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3901
The only true test of Step 11 Prayer and Meditation is contained in the step itself, "Did your prayer and meditation improve your conscious contact with God?" ...
Kimball ROWE
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Dec 3, 2006
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I found the following when I got bored in a meeting and started browsing through my PDA. It is from Significant March Dates in A.A. History from the series...
Tom Hickcox
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Dec 3, 2006
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3903
AAHistoryLovers et al, I have a new date for December, I just received and confirmed an invitation to attend a Candle Lighting Ceremony to honor Bill's...
Robt Woodson
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Dec 3, 2006
7:38 pm
3904
The photo of Rowland Hazard is posted on the internet at: http://hindsfoot.org/archive3.html Hi Ollie, Here's all I have on Rowland Hazard. This photo was...
Mel Barger
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Dec 3, 2006
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3905
I see the Brattleboro Retreat referred to again as the Asylum. My maternal grandmother lived in Brattleboro as did an aunt and uncle. The locals call it "The ...
Tom Hickcox
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Dec 3, 2006
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3906
Lawrence Block, in his Matthew Scudder detective series set in NY City, uses "qualification" and "qualifying" in apparent reference to an AA speaker's story....
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Dec 3, 2006
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From: Tom Hickcox <cometkazie1@...> (cometkazie1 at cox.net) We had the "at" vs "for" discussion and I have found where As Bill Sees It changed the wording...
Glenn Chesnut
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Dec 3, 2006
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3908
"ceremony at 11:59 pm just before Noon on the 10th of December" I hope that you mean 11:59 a.m., instead of p.m., because while noon does eventually follow ...
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Dec 3, 2006
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3909
Has there been, historically, a distinctive kind of "California AA"? In another forum, I recently made a (mistaken?) off-the-wall comment, using the phrase...
Jon Markle
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Dec 3, 2006
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3910
Surely "NY" (i.e. presumably GSO) had no power to abitrarily drop the circle and triangle symbol from all our literature etc - surely that would have been a...
jenny andrews
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Dec 3, 2006
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3911
Thanks for the posting, Bill---Fulton Oursler beautifully recognized our "language of the heart." When was the article written and where was it published? ...
ricktompkins
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Dec 3, 2006
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3912
A better question might be.. Was there AA in Denver in March 1940 or did Mort find AA from the book and then go to meet Kay Miller and the LA Mother Group when...
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Dec 3, 2006
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3913
Comments from Susan B., Chris Mahl, Woody (Robert Woodson) in Akron, Mitchell K., Li Lightfoot, Jim Blair, Rick Clowater, Sherry C. Hartsell, Tom White, Carole...
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Dec 5, 2006
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3914
Um, I don't have a fourth edition Big Book. Is that where this word "transcendence" is, in the third step prayer? c.cook austin, tx - - - Message 3907 from:...
Charlene C.
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Dec 5, 2006
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3915
Gary Becktell and Sherry Hartsell: there was no conference decision. - - - From: "Gary Becktell" <gk@...> (gk at kitcarson.net) No, Jenny, it was not...
Gary Becktell
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Dec 5, 2006
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3916
In April 1993 the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous decided, from the "sense" of the General Service Conference (the sense of the Conference...
ricktompkins
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Dec 5, 2006
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3917
Hi Tommy: As you know, I'm a Vermonter too. In my small town of Arlington (southern part of the state) folks just referred to the State Hospital in...
secondles
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Dec 5, 2006
10:53 pm
3918
I would venture to say that people are not making specific reference to a religion by saying they are Catholic or Protestant or Pentacostal or Hasidic or ...
Mitchell K.
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Dec 6, 2006
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3919
Photo taken by Russ Stewart from New Jersey, of Dr. Silkworth's grave, see http://hindsfoot.org/silky.html Russ tells us how visited the cemetery in a note ...
Glenn Chesnut
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