--- In BBS_Open_Discussion@yahoogroups.com, les hymel
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> LMAO Me thinks Rhinebeck wrote that, just to get us started on
something; if so, it worked.
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> We are people who normally would not mix
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> Nothing would please so much as to write a book which would
contain no basis for contention or argument.
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> Les Hymel
> 678-936-1080
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> --- On Tue, 1/6/09, Francis Quinlan <cappyquinlan@...> wrote:
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> From: Francis Quinlan <cappyquinlan@...>
> Subject: Re: [BBS_Open_Discussion] Re: hello everyone
> To: BBS_Open_Discussion@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 6:42 PM
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> Joe , there'll always be discussions /arguments/misleadi ng
statements in AA . But I take your point ,enough of the discussion .
AA says disease or not is an outside issue and thats that or is
it .Hey Joe ,for a PEACEFUL guy you sure have a strange email
address .A DOORGUNNER for godsake 
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> On 07/01/2009, at 10:11 AM, doorgunner_joe wrote:
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> --- In BBS_Open_Discussion @yahoogroups. com, "traceyfost"
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> > i am new to aa i have been sober 60 days and have been going to
aa 
> > meetings about 4 times a week. i really enjoy the meetings and i
find 
> > the bb very ineresting and it seems to restore hope when i had
no hope 
> > before. thank you for letting me become a member of this group
im 
> > hoping to learn more about the bb.
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> Hi Tracey and welcome to AA. Besides the Big Book we have another
book
> called The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions which is good
> supplemental reading. I hope you will stay until the miracle
happens
> for you too (if it hasn't already). 
> For those of you arguing over disease and malady, a gentle
reminder:
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> Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
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> Step Two - "Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves
could
> restore us to sanity."
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> Now we come to another kind of problem: the intellectually
> self-sufficient man or woman. To these, many A.A.'s can say, "Yes,
we
> were like you--far too smart for our own good. We loved to have
people
> call us precocious. We used our education to blow ourselves up into
> prideful balloons, though we were careful to hide this from others.
> Secretly, we felt we could float above the rest of the folks on our
> brainpower alone. Scientific progress told us there was nothing man
> couldn't do. Knowledge was all-powerful. Intellect could conquer
> nature. Since we were brighter than most folks (so we thought), the
> spoils of victory would be ours for the thinking. The god of
intellect
> displaced the God of our fathers. But again John Barleycorn had
other
> ideas. We who had won so handsomely in a walk turned into all-time
> losers. We saw that we had to reconsider or die. We found many in
A.A.
> who once thought as we did. They helped us to get down to our right
> size. By their example they showed us that humility and intellect
> could be compatible, provided we placed humility first. When we
began
> to do that, we received the gift of faith, a faith which works.
This
> faith is for you, too."
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> pp. 29-30
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> peace -- Joe
> DOS 01/05/04
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happy birthday Joe! you give people like me, who are new, faith in
the program. great sharing. thanks tracey