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...
We've just completed our last cycle and it's time to start the cycle again. The next cycle begins Tuesday morning, July 5. Each weekday morning at or about...
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...
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...
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,...
Good morning everyone! We're still on page xvii of the foreword to the second edition. The book describes two centers of activity around 1936. AA's group...
Good Morning! And a great big THANK YOU! to Karen for helping out with the study while I was at the Convention and on vacation! We're at paragraph 1, page...
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! 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...
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...
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 ...
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: "A" which is the...
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! [I apologize for a lack of a post yesterday - I was off from work and hadn't asked my co-moderators to post the study in my absence.] ...
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...
Hi Everyone! I have some very handsome convention teeshirts available for sale. They are a yellow shirt with red and black lettering - mimicking the cover of...
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 - original text in (parenthesis) and my editorial notes in [brackets]: "Our description of the alcoholic, [found...
'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! [Our friend Karen, aka honey_dot_com, will post for the next week as I get som R&R - thanks in advance to her]. We are at page 72 -...
If I'm not mistaken, I believe it's our Moderator, Jim ("Sottovoice") is celebrating 25 years of sobriety on Monday, August 8. Jim will be away next week, and...
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...
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 - ...
Welcome everyone and good morning! Let's read through starting from the bottom of page 76 and on to the top of page 77. Here is where we find out what our...
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