I have been reading your e-mails for at least 3 years. I am legally blind and have my computer read them to me. I have had times when I missed some e-mails...
Hi Marie, Agenda items like this always make folks jump to attention and rightfully so. This is the way the Agenda item has to be written any time someone...
I have been ask to give a talk on "Business Meetings: Politics, Service, or Cheap Entertainment?" I know that some will be about the Traditions; keeping us...
... Service, or Cheap Entertainment?" I know that some will be about the Traditions; keeping us out of trouble and aware of our primary purpose. I need some...
Amazing stuff being revealed here. It takes a lotta sand to propose using the intellectual property of a corporation to provide the basis for an AA geoup's...
Hi Woodrow; There is a lot of stuff in the Service Manual; especially the Warranty's where Bill talks about no government in AA, local autonomy of the groups,...
Yes it is amazing that you presume to know the amount of meetings I go to by reading the message I sent. I thank you for your most amusing reply, please go to...
Thank you for those words of (wisdom) encouragement. I will seek to find the divine within and release it. Your reply caused me to wonder about many things...
Hi Woodrow; Although for me working through the Service Structure has been an experience of frustration and futility I don't want to give the impression that...
okay, this one hit home. i have not written, i have been busy with my midterms, and truth be known, i felt disappointed in myself for not being more prepared...
I have found I cannot bring understanding to a group. I must concentrate on one person at a time. Most will blindly support GSO and AAWS out of some strange...
Thanks Ed for helping me understand why our groups get into so much turmoil. I am wondering if the groups themselves are an entity that develop spiritually...
An astute observation -- groups develop the same as individuals. Consider the spiritual impact of saying one thing and doing another: What is the impact on the...
Hi John, Your posts always leave me feeling as if I have no idea what AA is or was or even what it is supposed to do or who its members are. But I seem to...
Hi Group: Ed made a couple good points. The two room thing is interesting. We found some years ago that the roving 'Singleness of Purpose' workshops, that...
AAWS does not own the name Alcoholics Anonymous, the initials AA or A.A. --- while they have filed a trademark claim on all the above --- their claim has the...
Hi Dennis and everyone else, I enjoyed reading your post below. So much of "how we see things" are just that...our perspective. These conversations often...
Hi Dennis and everyone else, I enjoyed reading your post below. So much of "how we see things" are just that...our perspective. These conversations often...
Hi John, Thanks for the information. I enjoyed reading your post and I know that it will help to ease the pain in my side once it is digested. My home group...
Hi Bill and group; Thanks for your thoughtful comments. I certainly can understand your position but there is one difference between your position and mine...
Very well stated John. I loved your stories I heard from you about some of the meetings around the world as well as the motivation for a cheaper book. I really...
Hi Everybody, When I was at the bottom of my drinking career, I was pissed off that I was even contemplating the thought of maybe I might need to try and " get...
Thanks Greg, it was real and that is what is important. That's real AA. Peace, Dennis M. ... From: Sober Alcoholic To: GSOwatch@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday,...
John is so correct about self centeredness except that we "first" take a self fact finding inventory to discover this self centeredness. We have to see the...
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AAWS and Lois Wilson both assisted 'Hallmark Hall Of Fame' in researching and writing 'My Name Is Bill W'. G ... From: John C. To: GSOwatch@yahoogroups.com ...
Greetings to all, I remember when I was in my first year of sobriety in 1988. One of our past Delegates was doing a Traditions talk at our group and he talked...
"The scene where Bill W (James Woods) is looking out the window" I have not seen that movie since it played. Of the whole movie the above scene is all I have...
