The Mysterious Medicine ofAlcoholics Anonymous (Condensed from Today's Health, published by American Medical Assn.) Paul DE Kruif Twenty-five years ago,...
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Jim Blair
jimblairo
May 2, 2003 1:17 pm
Anonymous Struggle for 25 Years The growth of Alcoholics Anonymous, founded a quarter-century ago this month, has spurred new efforts to control a major...
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Jim Blair
jimblairo
May 2, 2003 3:17 pm
Personal Business Today, at least 5-million Americans are victims of alcoholism. The subject is discussed more freely these days than ever before. But it's...
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Tom H.
erstwhile_er...
May 2, 2003 4:33 pm
I am looking for writings other than what's in the Service Manual on the 3rd Legacy voting procedure. Also, interested in any areas that have created their...
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Jim Blair
jimblairo
May 2, 2003 5:29 pm
Tom wrote I am looking for writings other than what's in the Service Manual on the 3rd Legacy voting procedure. On my web site www.historyofaa.com is a...
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Jim Blair
jimblairo
May 3, 2003 4:58 pm
Passionately Anonymous The 15,000 men and women who thronged California's Long Beach Memorial Stadium last week differed from most conventioneers in one major...
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Arthur Sheehan
lefthanded_ny
May 4, 2003 7:57 pm
Hi Jim In AA Comes of Age pgs 216-217 and in Language of the Heart pgs 160-165. The most interesting piece of information I found is the predecessor to the...
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sher j.
ssj2000drago...
May 5, 2003 11:33 am
I am trying to research an AA issue that I thought I had all figured out but now am not so sure. It concerns AA birthdays and NA birthdays. In the area where...
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Jim Blair
jimblairo
May 5, 2003 11:51 am
Alcoholism ...the problem brought up to date One of the most difficult problems that any family may be called upon to face is alcoholism. The nature of this...
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Chrisjon10@...
chrisjon120
May 5, 2003 12:48 pm
I'd welcome some background information that could be used to support the Traditions regarding meetings that have a stated dual purpose yet try to call...
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Arthur Sheehan
lefthanded_ny
May 5, 2003 11:51 pm
Hi John Contact both your Area AA Delegate and Area Al-Anon Delegate. They can help inform on how important the Traditions are to both Fellowships and perhaps...
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Hugh D. Hyatt
hugh_hyatt@...
May 5, 2003 11:52 pm
... Tom, Area 59--Eastern Pennsylvania--has its own version of a Service Manual, which we call the Structure Manual. Within it is a slightly modified version...
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Higher Powered
josefgomez
May 6, 2003 10:35 am
To reinterate Tom H's question, I would like to know if other AA Areas have
their own Service Manuals and/or do not use the voting procedure Bill
outlined for...
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Jim Blair
jimblairo
May 6, 2003 1:15 pm
What the Alcoholic Owes to Marty Mann Out of her suffering has been born a networkof hope and help for thousands. By Floyd Miller An ashen-faced man in search...
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planternva
May 6, 2003 6:52 pm
This is an excerpt from an article by John L. Norris, MD, Class "A" (nonalcoholic) trustee and longtime chairman of GSO in the October 1977 "Grapevine": "I...
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Arthur Sheehan
lefthanded_ny
May 6, 2003 9:08 pm
Hi This is response to both Tom's and Jose G's posting. A few weeks ago I surfed thru the various Area web sites searching for information. When an Area...
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Pittman, Bill
bpittman@...
May 6, 2003 10:06 pm
When was Dr.Jung added to page 26 in the Big Book? Bill Pittman...
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Arthur Sheehan
lefthanded_ny
May 6, 2003 10:11 pm
As an addendum to Jim's info: The Norris article describes what was popularly called "the six point definition of an AA group." A 1991 Conference Advisory...
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bikergaryg@...
May 7, 2003 1:05 am
When was Dr.Jung added to page 26 in the Big Book? Bill Pittman i first found it in a 2nd edition first printing page 26 it is not on page 36 1st edition 15th...
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Hugh D. Hyatt
hugh_hyatt@...
May 7, 2003 1:07 am
Sher: I looked at the pamphlet titled "the AA member--Medications & other Drugs." At the beginning (p. 5) and the end (p. 19), point 2 says, "Remember that...
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Robert Stonebraker
rstonebraker...
May 7, 2003 10:43 am
The phrase (the psychiatrist, Dr. Jung) is also not on page 36 of in the last (16th) printing of the first edition. So that phrase must have first been used...
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Hugh D. Hyatt
hugh_hyatt@...
May 7, 2003 7:32 pm
Hello to all, ... Our Area Delegate pointed out the same thing when she saw my posting. I didn't keep a copy of what I wrote back to her, but in essence, ...
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Jim Blair
jimblairo
May 7, 2003 7:40 pm
Alcoholics Anonymous: Cult or Cure? by Arthur H. Cain A useful idea has turned into a religious movement-and a hindrance to research, psychiatry, and to many...
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jlobdell54
May 7, 2003 7:42 pm
Recently, at a meeting, two members with 19/20 years sobriety agreed on a story that the name "Alcoholics Anonymous" was picked for the book by Bill W. (after...
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septicwad
May 8, 2003 1:13 am
Guest Editorial: DO WE MAKE TOO MUCH OF ANNIVERSARIES? May 1949 Celebrating anniversaries is an old American custom and no one should be surprised that it is...
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frunobulax57
May 8, 2003 9:06 am
Does anyone know the origins for the tradition of turning upside-down the Think signs/banners at some AA meetings? Thanks...
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Jim Blair
jimblairo
May 8, 2003 3:25 pm
The Law of Unselfishness (Condensed from Christian Herald) by Fulton Oursler I have a friend who is a famous New York neurologist, and many dipsomaniacs come...
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Bill McNiff
BillMcNiff
May 8, 2003 3:27 pm
12 years ago, in Atlanta, an early AA historian shared the following information. The early members of the fellowship referred to themselves as "an unknown ...
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Arthur Sheehan
lefthanded_ny
May 8, 2003 6:44 pm
Hi Hugh Page S34 of the 2002-2003 Service Manual outlines "A Typical Election Assembly." In item 6, it states that election of the delegate is by Third Legacy...
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Higher Powered
josefgomez
May 8, 2003 6:48 pm
Our Area does not go to the hat, per Third Legacy procedures. Our 'Manual'
was written by a previous Delegate that was defeated several times when he
ran for...
