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...
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Oct 2, 2007 12:17 pm
Good morning! A BIG THANKS! to Karen for posting while I enjoyed Paris! First, let's answer the question posted yesterday concerning "Pot" in the Big Book....
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Oct 3, 2007 11:58 am
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....
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Jim K.
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Oct 4, 2007 10:23 am
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...
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Oct 5, 2007 11:36 am
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...
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Oct 8, 2007 11:28 am
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...
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Jim K.
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Oct 9, 2007 3:17 pm
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 ...
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Jim K.
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Oct 10, 2007 1:01 pm
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...
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Jim K.
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Oct 11, 2007 12:06 pm
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...
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Jim K.
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Oct 12, 2007 11:40 am
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 ...
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Jim K.
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Oct 15, 2007 5:04 am
Good Morning Everyone! Appendix II - "The Spiritual Experience" is found on page 567. "The terms "spiritual experience" and "spiritual awakening" are used many...
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Jim K.
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Oct 16, 2007 11:37 am
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...
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Jim K.
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Oct 17, 2007 4:07 am
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 ...
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Jim K.
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Oct 18, 2007 12:12 pm
Good Morning, everyone! Paragraph 2 on page 60 - original text in (parenthesis) and my editorial notes in [brackets]: "Our description of the alcoholic, [found...
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Jim K.
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Oct 19, 2007 9:57 am
'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...
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Jim K.
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Oct 22, 2007 12:45 pm
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...
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Jim K.
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Oct 23, 2007 1:06 pm
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...
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Jim K.
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Oct 24, 2007 12:14 pm
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...
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Jim K.
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Oct 25, 2007 11:07 am
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...
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Jim K.
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Oct 26, 2007 11:56 am
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...
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Jim K.
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Oct 29, 2007 12:03 pm
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 - ...
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Jim K.
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Oct 30, 2007 1:13 pm
Welcome back 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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Jim K.
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Oct 31, 2007 11:53 am
Good Morning! And Happy Halloween! We are at the bottom of page 80. The next several paragraphs, through the end of paragraph 1 on page 82, deal with the...
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Jim K.
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Nov 1, 2007 11:41 am
Good Morning 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 16...
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Jim K.
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Nov 2, 2007 11:31 am
Good Morning! Page 85, Paragraph 1 - While we have recovered from alcoholism: "We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve...
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Jim K.
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Nov 5, 2007 1:10 pm
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, ...
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Jim K.
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Nov 6, 2007 12:56 pm
Good morning everyone! Chapter 7 starts on page 89. It is dedicated in its entirety to Step 12. "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps,...
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Jim K.
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Nov 7, 2007 1:25 am
Good morning everyone! (Wednesday post) Let's go to page 100, last paragraph- "Assuming we are spiritually fit, we can do all sorts of things alcoholics are...
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Jim K.
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Nov 8, 2007 1:06 pm
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...
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Jim K.
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Nov 9, 2007 1:00 pm
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...
