FYI - There will be no post on Labor Day Monday - our next post will be on Tuesday September 5th. Good morning! We can gain some insight into the writing of...
I shouldn't have said that you thought you were "gurus". It was a smart-ss comment and was uncalled for. It is your meeting and you can run it any way you...
Janice- Don't worry- I sometimes feel that way too. Sometimes I attend AA meetings and it feels like a few people have all the answers and their lives are just...
Janice & Sophia, On a side note... there is a sister group to this board called We Have Recovered. That is where we often take more personal shares and topics...
What is ESH? I've tried to keep up with only half of the BBS discussions and am wow'd by the literacy of all the members at this group. Online aborption is......
HOMH - Yes, there are some very literary people here. I am not one of them. We are here to learn to study the Big Book.I am definitely a "sometimes, slowly"...
Hi Trish, Thanks for your response. And for the other site. HOMH Trish H <rosebud222@...> wrote: HOMH - Yes, there are some very literary people here. I am...
Thank you again Jim and Karen for your continued efforts in putting on this BB study. I have 20-20 hindsight like a lot of people. The problem is that I view...
Good Morning! Beginning on Page 59, paragraph 1 , we'll continue to examine the text as originally written to see the changes made before the first edition of...
as i heard it, course thats a hit or miss proposition, the word "suggested" was used because Bill realized TELLING an alcoholic to do anything was useless. and...
Good Morning, everyone! Paragraph 2 on page 60 - original text in (parenthesis) and my editorial notes in [brackets]: "Our description of the alcoholic, [found...
Thanks Jim & Karen. What a wonderful phrase. "Our description of the alcoholic" I -- like many still -- used to reject the idea that is a "real alcoholic" -...
Reading "our description of the alcoholic" finally made the years of insanity make sense. There was also relief in knowing that I was not alone in this .....
Hi Jim and All Thanks again for this study. I´m re-reading it again. About "our personal adventures before and after": I would not underestimate the stories...
Hello, Please allow me to ask a question, I am confused, I read that the only requirement for joining AA was a desire to stop using alcohol. Now I hear that...
Hi Frank, Sounds to me like you belong in AA with us!! I have learned not to compare my insides with other's outsides. If someone feels I don't belong in AA...
Thanks for that, Frank. Please don't take my word for it. When the "short form" of AA's Tradition Three states, "The only requirement for membership is a...
The only way Frank can sound like he belongs with us would be to share some of what he was like and have it sound like alcoholism. So far he hasn't and it...
Just for the record - Frank or ANYONE belongs with us here if they eant to be here. This isn't AA and it's an open discussion. Non-alcoholics (Not neccessarily...
Actually Paul, the personal stories aren't for us (AA Members). They were put into the book for new prospects who haven't yet joined because they haven't yet...
Larry-- I can relate to everything you write here--and I ditto the thank you to Karen and Jim! Peace-- Sophia "Larry C." <onewaythere@...> wrote: Thank...
Frank-- you are absolutely correct. There is one-- and only one--requirement for AA membership-- a desire to stop drinking (it used to be an honest desire,...
"Never talk down to an alcoholic from any moral or spiritual hilltop; simply lay out the kit of spiritual tools for his inspection. Show him how they worked...
Thanks Danny, Just been talking to someone been around 20+ yrs & trad 3 was the topic - due to a couple of people coming to one of our local meetings saying "...
O.K. The personal stories in BB is not for us (anymore) They helped me when I read them as "beginner" Some of their experiences still help me. Teached me...
I may read these story's in the back ; only read a couple , and to be honest I find them a bit boring. The fact is I couldn't do much reading at all when I...
Danny-- though I think I understand what you have intended to say here, there is no other requirement for AA membership that the one stated in the third...
