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 remembered...
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...
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...
Good Morning everyone! Paragraph 2 - Page 35: "Jim the car salesman" is example number 2 of alcoholic insanity. Reading through paragraph 3 on this page: "We...
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: "Ag" which is...
Good morning everyone! ***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...
Good Morning Everyone! And a BIG Thanks to Honey for helping out while I was on vacation! Appendix II - "The Spiritual Experience" is found on page 567. "The...
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...
Good Morning everyone! Beginning on Page 59, paragraph 1, we'll continue to examine the text as originally written to see the changes made before the first ...
Good Morning, everyone! Paragraph 2 on page 60: "Our description of the alcoholic, [found in the Doctor's Opinion and Chapter 3 - More About Alcoholism] the...
'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. First...
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...
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...
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. Resentments 2. Fears 3. Sexual...
Good Morning, everyone! We are at page 72 - Chapter 6 "Into Action" - and we're about to embark on our discussion of the 5th Step! "Having made our personal...
Good morning everyone! We are on Page 75. Paragraph 2 includes the 5th Step promises: "Once we have taken this step, withholding nothing, we are delighted. We...
<Reposted due to an editing error (my sponsors have all been men and I forgot to edit Karen's changes) sorry> Good morning everyone! We are on Page 75....
Good Morning Everyone! Page 76 - Let's look at the first paragraph. Believe it or not, there is a prayer for the 6th Step too: "Can He now take them all -...
Dave McD and I present "The Big Book Comes Alive with Jim and Dave" Big Book Study weekend a couple of times each year at various locations. We set it up to...
Welcome everyone and good morning! Let's start reading from the bottom of page 76 and on to the top of page 77. We find out what our purpose is: "Our real...
Good Morning! We are at the bottom of page 80. The next several paragraphs, through the end of paragraph 1 on page 82, deal with the problems associated with...
Happy Wednesday everyone! Although it seems like we're running through the Steps, keep in mind that in this chapter alone we cover steps 5 through 10 -- a mere...
Good morning, everyone! We're at Page 86, paragraph 2: "On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead. ... we ask God to direct our thinking, ...
Good Mornin' all! Page 85, Paragraph 1 - While we have recovered from alcoholism: "We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve...
Good morning everyone, and I'm back! orry for late post - network is down at work - grrr! Chapter 7 starts on page 89. It is dedicated in its entirety to Step ...
Good morning everyone! Let's go to page 100, last paragraph- "Assuming we are spiritually fit, we can do all sorts of things alcoholics are not supposed to do....
Good morning everyone! (Thanks to Karen for stepping yesterday!) "Chapter 8 - To Wives" begins on page 104. My comments are somewhat limited on this chapter,...
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