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Barto · 02-11-2007, 10:59 AM

... “do unto others before they do unto you,” right? Kinda’ like “it’s not whether you win or lose, it is how you look while playing the game that counts” – Paris Hilton? Okay, bad jokes aside.

Yes, I think the steps are broad basic principles, but so ordered are perfectly constructed to guide the alcoholic (and perhaps others) back to “God,” so that he (or she) may take his (or her) rightful place in society, that of being a part of, of being of maximum service to his (or her) fellows, which of course pays great dividends to the alcoholic (who having already been to hell, appreciates this seemingly revolutionary design for living).

I’ve heard the steps described as a stairway to heaven; steps that once taken, absolve the disease of self, that arrest the disease of the ego which has come to see itself as being separate, and so restore it to its rightful place (among others, as part of the greater whole, thereby with God).

This is how I like to look at the steps.

Oh yeah, and there is no need to get drunk in heaven. In fact I think it may be impossible.

02-11-2007, 10:59 AM	#6 (permalink)
Barto Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Righthere, Rightnow Posts: 1,497	Carole, you mean … ... “do unto others before they do unto you,” right? Kinda’ like “it’s not whether you win or lose, it is how you look while playing the game that counts” – Paris Hilton? Okay, bad jokes aside. Yes, I think the steps are broad basic principles, but so ordered are perfectly constructed to guide the alcoholic (and perhaps others) back to “God,” so that he (or she) may take his (or her) rightful place in society, that of being a part of, of being of maximum service to his (or her) fellows, which of course pays great dividends to the alcoholic (who having already been to hell, appreciates this seemingly revolutionary design for living). I’ve heard the steps described as a stairway to heaven; steps that once taken, absolve the disease of self, that arrest the disease of the ego which has come to see itself as being separate, and so restore it to its rightful place (among others, as part of the greater whole, thereby with God). This is how I like to look at the steps. Oh yeah, and there is no need to get drunk in heaven. In fact I think it may be impossible.