Is the Big Book a real reflection of AA?
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Originally Posted by Pagekeeper 
I think this is what is meant by the saying "Stick with the winners."
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Guess we are all works in progress when it comes to judging others.
However, I am not looking forward to it. When I have ceased discerning differences in people, places and things, I fear that my conversations and advice will be completely useless to mere mortals. For now, at least, I intend to use what communications skills that I currently have to convey my message
"Sometimes we become so damn spiritual that we are of no earthly use to anybody."
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Originally Posted by helpimalive
I apologize if this discussion has already taken place. I've searched and not found it on here or on Google. I also apologize if there's a more appropriate forum for this, but this particular corner of the forum seems to be where everyone hangs out.
Anyway but so I read the Big Book and the 12 book and ... They remind me of letters I get sometimes from a man who is only very mildly schizoid. Or else they remind me of, like, Victorian-era treatises I had to read in college.
Not relatable. Not something I can fit in my brain.
But to hear people who are IN AA tell it, I hear something else entirely. And then I listened to this wonderful speech Hawks linked to on my other thread (Clancy I?), and that, too, is so much more relatable and real to me than those books.
I'm the kind who always thinks you ought to do your homework (I won't say I'm the kind who actually *does* it, but in this case I am XD), so I thought if I don't like the books I won't like the program. True or false or something in between?
Anyway but so I read the Big Book and the 12 book and ... They remind me of letters I get sometimes from a man who is only very mildly schizoid. Or else they remind me of, like, Victorian-era treatises I had to read in college.
Not relatable. Not something I can fit in my brain.
But to hear people who are IN AA tell it, I hear something else entirely. And then I listened to this wonderful speech Hawks linked to on my other thread (Clancy I?), and that, too, is so much more relatable and real to me than those books.
I'm the kind who always thinks you ought to do your homework (I won't say I'm the kind who actually *does* it, but in this case I am XD), so I thought if I don't like the books I won't like the program. True or false or something in between?
Dr. Robert Sapolsky's lecture about Biological Underpinnings of Religiosity - YouTube
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I have not read all of the comments on this thread.
Just want to say that every time I see the title pop up .... "Is the Big Book a real reflection of AA?" ...... I just think "Am I a real reflection of AA? Am I attempting to live the principles in all my affairs?"
Just want to say that every time I see the title pop up .... "Is the Big Book a real reflection of AA?" ...... I just think "Am I a real reflection of AA? Am I attempting to live the principles in all my affairs?"
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