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7114
Good Mornin' all- We are beginning at the bottom of page 145. Reading through to page 148, there are many ideas that have been adopted by industry in general...
Jim K.
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May 2, 2005
12:26 pm
7115
Good Morning! Chapter 11 - "A Vision for You" begins on page 151. If you have been following along with the study from the beginning you are aware of the...
Jim K.
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May 3, 2005
11:24 am
7116
Good morning all! There are a great many places that have marked AA's early history. The Mayflower Hotel in Ohio is one. Towns Hospital - 293 Central Park West...
Jim K.
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May 4, 2005
10:59 am
7117
Good Morning, everyone! Dr. Bob's Nightmare is the first of the personal stories on page 171. Page 165 is interesting however. This is the Section Heading...
Jim K.
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May 5, 2005
11:58 am
7118
Welcome everyone! We've just completed our last cycle and we will start from the Title page and work our way through to Doctor Bob's story once again. The next...
Jim K.
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May 5, 2005
12:02 pm
7119
Welcome everyone to the newest cycle of our Big Book Study! We'll be examining the book very closely throughout the coming weeks. It is important to note that...
Jim K.
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May 6, 2005
11:56 am
7120
Good morning everyone! Let's turn to page xi, the Preface to the Third Edition, and look at paragraph #2. This book is identified as "the basic text for our ...
Jim K.
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May 9, 2005
12:11 pm
7121
Good morning everyone, and welcome to those who have just joined us! Turning to page xv and reading through to the end of the foreword to the second edition,...
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May 10, 2005
12:14 pm
7122
Good morning everyone! <and a big thanks to Karen for helping out yesterday while I played a bad round of golf> We're still on page xvii of the foreword to the...
Jim K.
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May 11, 2005
11:17 am
7123
Good Morning! We're at paragraph 1, page xxiv, right after the first letter. "...the body of the alcoholic is quite as abnormal as his mind." This was a...
Jim K.
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May 12, 2005
11:33 am
7124
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...
Jim K.
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May 13, 2005
12:05 pm
7125
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....
Jim K.
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May 16, 2005
12:23 pm
7126
Good morning everyone! And welcome back! 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...
Jim K.
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May 17, 2005
12:04 pm
7127
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 K.
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May 18, 2005
11:29 am
7128
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...
Jim K.
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May 19, 2005
11:30 am
7129
Welcome back everyone! We're at Page 30 - Chapter 3, "More (Truth) About Alcoholism". This is where we will discuss--in depth--the state of mind that preceeds ...
Jim K.
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May 20, 2005
11:25 am
7130
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 ...
Jim K.
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May 23, 2005
12:06 pm
7131
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: "A" which is the...
Jim K.
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May 24, 2005
11:46 am
7132
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 ...
Jim K.
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May 25, 2005
11:08 am
7133
Good Morning Everyone! [Karen, aka honey_dot_com, will post in my absence tomorrow and there will be no post on Monday due to the Memorial Day Holiday] ...
Jim K.
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May 26, 2005
11:46 am
7134
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...
Karen
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May 27, 2005
12:49 pm
7135
Good Morning everyone! And a huge Thanks! once again to the lovely Karen aka honey_dot_com for helping out on Friday! Beginning on Page 59, paragraph 1, we'll...
Jim K.
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May 31, 2005
11:37 am
7136
Hi everyone! In case you are not aware in about 30 days our international convention begins in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. To help bring all of us together I...
Jim K.
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May 31, 2005
11:53 am
7137
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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Jun 1, 2005
11:33 am
7138
'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...
Jim K.
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Jun 2, 2005
11:34 am
7139
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...
Karen
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Jun 3, 2005
10:47 am
7140
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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Jun 6, 2005
12:23 pm
7141
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...
Jim K.
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Jun 7, 2005
11:45 am
7142
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...
Jim K.
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Jun 8, 2005
11:34 am
7143
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...
Jim K.
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Jun 9, 2005
11:41 am
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