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McGowdog · 06-30-2009, 05:21 PM

Sounds like a sick group or a sick meeting.

I know of a few groups in town where your chair person comes with a strong topic out of the steps themselves or the 12 traditions long form, and you're encouraged to share YOUR current experience with that topic.

I myself like big book thumpers, step Nazis, hardliners, whatever you want to call them. These are merely people who "do the 12 steps" and have nothing to argue about because they follow the book. If they say something that's not in the book, they are wrong and are not a very good big book thumper, but a "self thumper".

If you've got a group that does steps once a year, like it says in the book, there's not much dead weight or pontificating on what they think is in the 12 steps or reciting a war story from a long past experience.

This is the Alcoholism-12 Step Support thread and this is what it's all about.

I'd take my 5 years of sobriety of doing steps yearly over someone with say 20 years who doesn't do steps regularly because that's like 1 year of sobriety repeated 20 times. We've seen this happen.

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McGowdog On Double Secret Probation Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Southern Colorado Posts: 1,075	Sounds like a sick group or a sick meeting. I know of a few groups in town where your chair person comes with a strong topic out of the steps themselves or the 12 traditions long form, and you're encouraged to share YOUR current experience with that topic. I myself like big book thumpers, step Nazis, hardliners, whatever you want to call them. These are merely people who "do the 12 steps" and have nothing to argue about because they follow the book. If they say something that's not in the book, they are wrong and are not a very good big book thumper, but a "self thumper". If you've got a group that does steps once a year, like it says in the book, there's not much dead weight or pontificating on what they think is in the 12 steps or reciting a war story from a long past experience. This is the Alcoholism-12 Step Support thread and this is what it's all about. I'd take my 5 years of sobriety of doing steps yearly over someone with say 20 years who doesn't do steps regularly because that's like 1 year of sobriety repeated 20 times. We've seen this happen. __________________ The alcoholic ego is like a baby... it has tremendous appetite on one end and no responsibility on the other-Paul Martin of Chicago Per SR guidelines... quotes or paraphrases from BB 1st Edition.