Good Morning everyone! We're at the top of page 8, paragraph 1:"No words can tell of the loneliness and despair I found in that bitter morass of self-pity....
Good morning everyone! We're at the top of page 13 -Bill went again to Towns Hospital to be separated from alcohol for the last time. This is at the beginning...
While laying in the hospital, about 2 or 3 days sober, Bill does the essential elements of what would become our Steps. However, one of the sentences that no...
Good Morning!We're on page 17 - Chapter 2 - "There is a Solution."One of the literary devices that Bill employs on this page relates to events that are...
Good morning!Turning our books to Page 25, lets look at paragraph 2:"The great fact is just this, and nothing less: That we have had deep and effective...
"The great fact is just this, and nothing less: That we have had deep and effective spiritual experiences* which have revolutionized (changed) our whole...
Thank you Jim and karen for this ongoing BB Study. It is appreciated by this Recovered Alcoholic. Terry: What struck me in your statement was a very simple...
Good morning and welcome back everyone! We're at Page 30 - Chapter 3, "More (Truth) About Alcoholism". This is where we will discuss--in depth--the state of...
Oh ,boy ,this is my hobby horse topic .....Insanity and how it finds itself exactly in tune with how Bill explains it in the Book and therefore the Steps (on...
Good Morning all! Paragraph 2 - Page 35: "Jim the car salesman" is example number 2 of alcoholic insanity. Reading through paragraph 3 on this page: "We told...
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable. When I first read Step One I would sometimes insert the word 'and' in...
Yes ,this subject is almost impossible to breach in our group (at home here in Australia) '.Unmanageable" here ,has but one meaning and that is the crazy shit...
Sorry to have ,no ,I am not sorry ,but there are groups ,scores of them .You see ,we didnt fully accept the full sized program right at the beginning of AA in...
Good Morning! Today we are at Chapter 4 - We Agnostics, Page 44. We should start by defining some terms. "Agnostic" is comprised of two parts: "A" which is the...
... Well, If God is the solution to my problem. The fact that I have had this problem up to this point tells me that I do not have the solution. I would...
One of my favorite sentences to me explains it "most people live by self propulsion" the agnostic, me. Bill referred to it as the Pinch hitter God. Making all...
Good morning!***Here's a good exercise for Chapter 4. Read through and count how many times the word "prejudice" in it's various forms appears. Also count...
Good Morning Everyone! Appendix II - "The Spiritual Experience" is found on page 567."The terms "spiritual experience" and "spiritual awakening" are used many...
What a wonderful chapter and one which kept me in ignorance for a long time. "Yes, we of agnostic temperament have had these thoughts and experiences. Let us...
Good morning! We can gain some insight into the writing of the book through an examination of the original text (pre-publication "Multilith") in conjunction...
And a find good morning to you Sir and the Mrs.. I love to look at our history also... thanks for going there. The two camps, and success in both is also...
Good Morning! [Due to the President's Day holiday on Monday our next post will appear on Tuesday 2/16] Beginning on Page 59, paragraph 1, we'll continue to...
Good Morning, everyone!Paragraph 2 on page 60 - original text in (parenthesis) and my editorial notes in [brackets]: "Our description of the alcoholic, [found...
'Morning everyone : ) We are on page 62, Paragraph 3. Here we find out the position that God will occupy in our lives: "This is the how and the why of it....
Good morning, everyone! We are at the bottom of page 63, last paragraph:"Next we launched out on a course of vigorous action, the first step of which is a...
"Above everything, we alcoholics must be rid of this selfishness. We must or it kills us (p. 62)." There exists a popular cliché: "AA is a selfish program for...
http://www.circleofprayer.com/explanations.html The above link is an 11th Step site. It may help with prayer in meditation? Phil M. "Christianity has not been...
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