Mornin' everyone! First, let’s answer that question posted yesterday concerning "Pot" in the Big Book. Here it is, on the old doggerel--the way Bill...
I find it ironic that the most rudimentary and important admissions a real alcoholic must make prior to recovering from alcoholism could not be made by me no...
This has got to be the most important post of our entire Big Book Study. Without learning and AGREEING with the statements made by the good Dr. regarding...
Hi Danny, Amazing how often self-knowledge and will power are mistaken as a viable program to defeat alcoholism isn't it? I think Step One and it's admission ...
... However, that is not what the Forewords of the First Editions actually say. My 11th Printing [1947] says, "We, of Alcoholics Anonymous, are many thousands...
Tommy- Feel free to nit pick at will- The term "... are more than one hundred men and women who have recovered… ." was changed during the printings of the...
Since the other Jim already anawered the question of the First Forward I'll take a stab at the second. Bill and the other officers were assigned to Fort Rodman...
I have a replica 1st Edition (the original published in 1939) and it says "The story of how more than one hundred men have recovered from alcoholism." I have a...
Wow! We hear this all the time at meetings. It's simplistic instructions for newcomers. I was told that also. I have even said that. I always supposed that...
"powerlessness is the single most misunderstood of AA's principles." Jim Powerful stuff there Jim. And so true. I know that if I so much as put one drop of...
Thanks for that info Tommy. I see we have another AA history buff amongst us. Perhaps even a great picker of nits than I. :) Peace, ... that ... than ... ...
Mega dittoes Tammy. When I was new (and sometimes still like to think of myself that way ^9^), I kept hearing, put on your tray what you want, what works for...
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....
Just an observation about the allergy and the obsession. When I was actively out there drinking, I used to run into people who used to say something like "I...
Let's see...Cebra Graves and friend (Shep Cornell) from the Oxford Group go to get Ebby released from jail by the court. The name of the judge? Judge Collin...
Honest to God, I don't know. My first inclination is that it is just a semantic faux pas. If there is a good reason you know of, please pass it on. Just for...
... 'Fraid not, Danny. But our collective will and individual lives make sense. It seems to me that Bill W was careful in his selection of words. Some people...
Hi Tammy, What I do offer to get together with them and read through the first 63 pages of the book so that they will be in the position to make an informed ...
I think it maybe due to each of us has one will while we all have different lives that we try to live, for example, we have our jobs, our homes, our friend and...
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...
... and lives is plural?<< I'll take a stab at it... Step 3 - Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. ...
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...
Jim, that's great. It's good to see that someone else realizes that people have to qualify for membership AA, and helping them make that decision right out of...
People give all sorts of reasons as to why they go to meetings, but, but a weak foundation is good enough reason for me. So the next time someone says "meeting...
... to stop thumping his Big Book, because his lunactic fanaticims might might scare a newcomer away, and kill him. :)<<<<<<<< Huh? Now I'm confused - THIS...
<<Perhaps that said "tongue in cheek?">> Linda Yes indeed. Peace, Danny S ... meetings, but, but a weak foundation is good enough reason for me. So the next...
I tend to agree with you Linda. I'm glad you reminded me that it's only ONE way to carry the message. Bill even referred in some of his writing about how...
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...
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