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11-25-2004, 12:21 PM

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Mogqua

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Originally Posted by Music

Just curious! Is the above quote a truism that you can document or are you just a little overly sensitive? Unless my memory fails me, there were some drug users in that first one hundred folks that wrote the book. Are you saying that they wouldn't be allowed by some of those "AAs" who can't accept the word addict?

It was fought over in many grapevines for years and at the conferences. So documentation can be easily found if you wish to search Grapevine and Conference Reports. I think it's just comical, so I wouldn't consider myself to be over-sensitive about it and it's usually the over-sensitive that get riled by my amusement by it.

The new title in the Fourth Edition is "acceptance" and there really was no reason to change it. BTW: the new page of that is 417. I would suggest to all that they read the whole story, since it can be twisted out of context very easily. Even Dr. Paul was heard to say he didn't mean the things that everyone had turned it into to. In fact, he said he really wasn't sure what he meant when he wrote it and was rather amused at what everyone thought it was and how they argued about it.

All in all, it's a good story. One of my favorites too.