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Edmundo30 · 06-02-2006, 10:35 PM

There are people in Alcoholics Anonymous who NEED to do what Alcoholics Anonymous asks them to do. I am one of them. I not only do it because I need to. But I also love to have to and want to as well.

It is incredible at some things you get to hear at meetings sometimes. I just cry with so much laughter. You have to laugh at some of this stuff. I know so long as you stick to what AA talks about and share from your own experience what THAT was like, then there is nothing wrong you can say in AA. I dont know.

I do know that TOO much humility can sometimes hurt the new person. My problem was not that I am powerless over people places and things. My problem was that I was powerless over alcohol. If I were to say that I am still a helpless poor and still recovering alcoholic, then I would not have wanted anything like that when I came to AA. I had a desperate desire to syop but found that I could not no matter what I wanted or said and did. When I share my experience with the new person in the meeting I dont usually talk about my war stories because they can seperate me from the new person. If I ate out of a dumpster 4 years ago and if the lady who never has had that kind of drunk hears that, she will not be able to identify with me and care not to hear what I have to say because that would make her feel different.

BUT..If I tell her, I drank AGAINST MY WILL, that would definitely get her attention if she is a real alcoholic. Even IF she may be older younger slimmer fatter married or divorced. Its not the problem that unifies us, it is the solution. The problem is what brings us to the solution.

Some of us drove up in limos, dug our way in, some of us parachuted, slithered, crawled, or were rolled into AA..It's not about the events that happened during my drinking hat make me alcoholic..Its the mind that takes me to the drink that makes me alcoholic.

If you could identify with that, you may be just like me.

What the message we carry? Well..whats the message that was carried to me? The message that was carried to me was from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. And I was told not to have anyone read that for me. If I wanted to have a spiritual experience I had to do the work to have one.

The subtsance of MY story is in my experience in seeking God. Thats what I share with the new person. If they are not interested in that kind of an experience, then they my need to drink some more.

06-02-2006, 10:35 PM	#6 (permalink)
Edmundo30 Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Laredo, Texas Posts: 29	There are people in Alcoholics Anonymous who NEED to do what Alcoholics Anonymous asks them to do. I am one of them. I not only do it because I need to. But I also love to have to and want to as well. It is incredible at some things you get to hear at meetings sometimes. I just cry with so much laughter. You have to laugh at some of this stuff. I know so long as you stick to what AA talks about and share from your own experience what THAT was like, then there is nothing wrong you can say in AA. I dont know. I do know that TOO much humility can sometimes hurt the new person. My problem was not that I am powerless over people places and things. My problem was that I was powerless over alcohol. If I were to say that I am still a helpless poor and still recovering alcoholic, then I would not have wanted anything like that when I came to AA. I had a desperate desire to syop but found that I could not no matter what I wanted or said and did. When I share my experience with the new person in the meeting I dont usually talk about my war stories because they can seperate me from the new person. If I ate out of a dumpster 4 years ago and if the lady who never has had that kind of drunk hears that, she will not be able to identify with me and care not to hear what I have to say because that would make her feel different. BUT..If I tell her, I drank AGAINST MY WILL, that would definitely get her attention if she is a real alcoholic. Even IF she may be older younger slimmer fatter married or divorced. Its not the problem that unifies us, it is the solution. The problem is what brings us to the solution. Some of us drove up in limos, dug our way in, some of us parachuted, slithered, crawled, or were rolled into AA..It's not about the events that happened during my drinking hat make me alcoholic..Its the mind that takes me to the drink that makes me alcoholic. If you could identify with that, you may be just like me. What the message we carry? Well..whats the message that was carried to me? The message that was carried to me was from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. And I was told not to have anyone read that for me. If I wanted to have a spiritual experience I had to do the work to have one. The subtsance of MY story is in my experience in seeking God. Thats what I share with the new person. If they are not interested in that kind of an experience, then they my need to drink some more.