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17980
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...
Jim K
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Feb 2, 2009
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17981
Good Morning Everyone! Appendix II - "The Spiritual Experience" is found on page 567."The terms "spiritual experience" and "spiritual awakening" are used many...
Jim K
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Feb 3, 2009
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17982
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...
Jim K
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Feb 4, 2009
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17983
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...
Jim K
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Feb 5, 2009
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17984
Good Morning, everyone!Paragraph 2 on page 60 - original text in (parenthesis) and my editorial notes in [brackets]: "Our description of the alcoholic, [found...
Jim K
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Feb 6, 2009
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17985
Hi Jim I'm Tony an alcoholic from Chicago. My home group Always Beginners 1,2,3 How are you? ... Hi Jim I'm Tony an alcoholic from Chicago. My home group...
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Feb 6, 2009
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'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....
Jim K
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Feb 9, 2009
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17987
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...
Jim K
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Feb 10, 2009
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17988
i have not gone to meetings in the past few months since I met an alcoholic and have been tied up with him. Have I sacrificed my sobriety? I think so, can I...
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Feb 10, 2009
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17989
... alcoholic and have been ... do something about it? ... It sounds as if the honeymoon is over and you are looking to re-connect with your AA family. Help is...
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Feb 10, 2009
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17990
What has worked for me (REALLY!) is: Reading the BB Sponsorship/being a sponsee Working the steps Going to meetings and, prayer Realization: I am not...
Teresa Edwards
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Feb 10, 2009
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17991
Which is why I won't go near anyone who is in the sauce...unless it is to carry the message, and I mean the one in the BB.   Tracy   ... From: doorgunner_joe...
Tracy Grenier
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Feb 10, 2009
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17992
... wrote: i have not gone to meetings in the past few months since I met an alcoholic and have been tied up with him. Have I sacrificed my sobriety? I think...
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Feb 10, 2009
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NICE!   The will of God will never take me where the grace of God will not protect me. Teresa Edwards ________________________________ From: rhinebeck2007...
Teresa Edwards
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Feb 10, 2009
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17994
Dear friend who has "not gone to meetings in the past few months since I met an alcoholic, etc. . . . " I really doubt that your alcoholic friend has anything...
Robert Stonebraker
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Feb 10, 2009
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17995
Good Morning everyone! We're at Paragraph 3 on page 64 - "Resentment is the number one offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else." Again we see...
Jim K
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Feb 11, 2009
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17996
Good morning! We are filling out the third column of the first of four parts of our 4th Step inventory. The four parts are:1. Resentments2. Fears3. Sexual...
Jim K
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Feb 12, 2009
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17997
http://www.xa-speakers.org/pafiledb.php?action=file <http://www.xa-speakers.org/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=2476> &id=2476 Dear 4D members and Friends, The...
Robert Stonebraker
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Feb 12, 2009
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17998
Page 74 has us to tell all our 'life story' to a closed mouth, understanding friend, which these days, I would hope, would be our AA sponsor. In earlier...
Robert Stonebraker
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Feb 13, 2009
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Thank you Robert for you concise description of the sponor's role and the recommendations from the Big Book for the way the 4th Step ought to be done. My own...
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Feb 13, 2009
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18000
Note: our next post will be on Tuesday due to Monday's President's Day Holiday Good Morning, everyone! We are at page 72 - Chapter 6 "Into Action" - and we're...
Jim K
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Feb 13, 2009
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18001
So how do we fix this, I have been bemoaning the condition for several years since I have lived in the area which I live now before that I lived in NYC which...
sipowitz110
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Feb 16, 2009
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In a perfect world, we have strong sponsors and willing and honest and sometimes even desperate sponsees. But its not a perfect world. Pretty much why we find...
Barbara S
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I was directed to read Tradition Two in the 12x12, paying particular attention to the transformation of an elder statesman. Remi ... From: sipowitz110...
Remi
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Hi All, Chris here, Alcoholic. My observation has been; Dr Bob"s 3) Help others.... Mike observes: has been lost in the transmission of the program. Have we...
Chris
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Dear rhinebeck2007, I returned to my hometown to find 'group therapy' atmosphere prevalent at most of our local AA meetings. One can often sit through an...
Robert Stonebraker
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Feb 16, 2009
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18007
It was fortunate indeed that when I needed to hear the real message of the program of Alcoholics Anonymous, there was a guy teaching a Big Book...
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18008
. A famous monk writer, Thomas Merton, advises: “Speak the truth and let it take care of itself, it doesn’t need you to defend it. When you try to uphold...
Francis Quinlan
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Feb 17, 2009
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When I hit out-of town meetings, I try to make it to a BB Study.  I found that groups with quality recovery have BB Studies and lots of participation.  I...
les hymel
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