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Oct 4, 2005
2:47 am
8764
Bill, if you do not mind, how abou this as a reason for going to meetings: I went to a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous where I met people who told me how great...
Danny S
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Oct 4, 2005
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Hi Liz... i get to the Plymouth meetings from time to time...i live in Franconia and go to most of the meetings in ... Littleton, Lisbon and Lincoln... I too...
eric lodge
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Oct 4, 2005
12:13 am
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Hello Rick! I got sober in Plymouth New Hampshire. That's where I did my steps and there are some hard-core meetings there and some hard-core Big Book ...
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iisabetta1
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Oct 3, 2005
11:23 pm
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Hello all... this is my experience too...many times i will attend our "regular" 12 and 12 or BB meetings and they just turn into the wanderings of some of our...
eric lodge
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Oct 3, 2005
10:43 pm
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Hi Jocelyn, That has been my experience this year. Smaller, indepth BB study groups. We have had a few this year in members houses, but due to the demand the...
david jones
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Oct 3, 2005
8:51 pm
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Bill, You make an excellent point. My recent personal experience is seeing the resurgance of smaller more specialized meetings cropping up. BB studies, 12&12 ...
Jocelyn
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Oct 3, 2005
6:33 pm
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I have gratitude today for having a loving God in my life that has opened my eyes to see that being powerless over alcohol was a long but temporary condition....
Danny S
frunobulax57
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Oct 3, 2005
5:34 pm
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Hi Ralph, The Big Book does address exactly what you are talking about. Make of it what you will: "The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure,...
Danny S
frunobulax57
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Oct 3, 2005
5:18 pm
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The simple truth of the matter which i have found to hold validity is that I will always be powerless over alcohol but "WE" have power over choice of drink...
RALPH
bigbookrj
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Oct 3, 2005
3:53 pm
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Even though I can say that I have "taken" step one, it is important for me to bear in mind what it means when I say I was powerless over alcohol. Chris if you...
Danny S
frunobulax57
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Oct 3, 2005
3:47 pm
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Sorry Chris. I though it was Cherrie. We do not do name calling in this group. It happens occasionally, but not lately. So when anyone, whether it be me or...
Danny S
frunobulax57
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Oct 3, 2005
3:30 pm
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What I've found about reading my inventory out loud is that even though I saw my defects of character when I was writing my inventory, to verbalize them to...
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Oct 3, 2005
1:27 pm
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Good Morning, everyone! [Our own Karen, aka honey_dot_com, posted while I took a day off from work, finally! My THANKS! to her.] We are at page 72 - Chapter 6...
Jim K
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Oct 3, 2005
12:00 pm
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Yesterday's Thought out of "Twenty-Four Hours A Day" seems to speak ... speech with fine choices of words and an impressive delivery. Often a few simple words...
Bill Triebe
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Oct 3, 2005
10:05 am
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When it comes right down to it, Danny, the Big Book does not spend a lot of time on the "how" and "why" of meetings, per se. Probably because-at the time the...
Bill Triebe
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Oct 3, 2005
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first of all, its chris-not cherrie-and in response to your self righteous, egotistical and downright offensive statement,yes i have. i also got off the...
Chris Cherrie
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Oct 3, 2005
5:33 am
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We Are On The Same Page Danny. Thanks also for further clarifying your position on the Subject for me. When I "start Seeing Red", my perspective, patience,...
Dean M
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Oct 3, 2005
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No Cherie the BIG BOOK says you won't remember it in the quote I posted. It doesnt say you won't rememebr it speaking in AA meetings ... s, it says not...
Danny S
frunobulax57
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Oct 3, 2005
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Somewhere we got the misconception that 12 stepping, that carrying the message, has something to do with sharing at meetings, that "telling our story" means in...
Danny S
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Oct 3, 2005
2:11 am
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Like one of my Texican buddies likes to point out "The Big Book says I'm not going to remember my own scary stories, let alone yours" , his paraphrasing well...
Chris Cherrie
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Oct 3, 2005
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This is interesting. For me there are times when I need to share my ESH, like when hearing a 5th step or talking to a down and out drunk trying to give him/her...
trish&jack
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Oct 3, 2005
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Of course. Why do you ask? Peace, Danny S ... shut the door on it?...
Danny S
frunobulax57
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Oct 3, 2005
12:53 am
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Then there is this... Our stories disclose in a general way what we used to be like, what happened, and what we are like now. That word general is important....
Jocelyn
prpllady51
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Oct 3, 2005
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Using the columns, left to right, is much easier than the illustration that appears in the Big Book, which seems to confuse everyone. However, in the inventory...
William Gill
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Oct 2, 2005
11:52 pm
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dont the promises state that we will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it? wouldnt that include our personal horror stories?...
Chris Cherrie
hooty4487
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Oct 2, 2005
11:17 pm
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I must jump in. LOL Dean, I think I missed a perspective of yours early on when we first tarried. I agree with you from your AND my perspective which you...
Danny S
frunobulax57
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Oct 2, 2005
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First Time I've Encountered the "Set Aside Prayer" Steve. Certainly interesting. No Problem at all with advocacy of open mindedness. One of my personal "Hot...
Dean M
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Oct 2, 2005
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Please unsubscribe me from this group. Hope to be back lurking very soon - once I return from holiday. Thanks to all of you for your postings and insight into...
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justfortoday...
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Oct 1, 2005
11:24 pm
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Conversely & Ironically........Our worst liability becomes our greatest asset. AA ROCKS!!!! Danny S <Trudger57@...> wrote: Great Steve. If you don't mind,...
Tammy Cook
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