Good morning everyone! Most of the comments on this chapter were written by my friend and co-moderator Karen- "Chapter 8 - To Wives" begins on page 104. There...
Good Morning all! Today we will begin on page 122 - "The Family Afterward." The dynamics of a family that has endured alcoholism are skewed to the point where...
Good Morning everyone! We're at page 128 of Chapter 9 - "The Family Afterward." The reading from here through the bottom of page 130 centers on, for lack of a...
Good Mornin' all! (and Thanks to Karen for helping out yesterday!) Chapter 10 - To Employers begins on page 136. This chapter was written by Hank Parkhurst....
Good Morning 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 that...
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 have learned much...
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...
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 Friday, August 11. Each weekday morning at or about 8:00am...
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! While we continue to study the forwords and the Doctor's Opinion, remember that we are using the 4th Edition. (The page numbering prior to...
Good morning, First, let’s answer the question posted yesterday concerning "Pot" in the Big Book. Here it is, on the old doggerel--the way Bill remembered it...
Good morning, 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. Quicksand...
Good morning everyone! And a big Thanks! to Karen for stepping in for the last two days! We're at the top of page 13 - Bill went again to Towns Hospital to be...
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! (Thursday Post) 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...
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 all! Paragraph 2 - Page 35: "Jim the car salesman" is example number 2 of alcoholic insanity. Reading through paragraph 3 on this page: "We told...
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 Greek prefix...
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 thanks again to Karen for her help yesterday! Appendix II - "The Spiritual Experience" is found on page 567. "The terms "spiritual...
FYI - No post on Labor Day Monday - our next post will be on Tursday September 5th. Good morning! We can gain some insight into the writing of the book through...
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! 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 personal...
Good morning everyone! (Monday Sept. 11 Post) We're at Paragraph 3 on page 64 - "Resentment is the number one offender. It destroys more alcoholics than...
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