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Dan · 08-07-2005, 07:12 PM

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Over my first weeks of sobriety Harry vaguely sponsored me. Not very successfully (he was far too deferential about my degrees, my big salary, my $10-words). But just drinking coffee with him was fun therapy. He was a repository of sagacious truth about drink, drinkers and drunks. You can never tell who will make it, he would say, having watched AA at work for three decades. Often the successes were the apparent deadbeats. The down-at-heels, bums, the ones who turned up still drunk and bleary. Those who looked like really good prospects - the bright-eyed, eager, clever ones - would most likely flame out. He was right. It was a lottery. Do not despair, as St Augustine said, one thief was saved: do not presume, one thief was damned. Which thief was I?

All of it.

lulu70 · 08-07-2005, 07:33 PM

Thanks, Dan. There were a couple aspects of that article which I found particularly interesting. The first is the fact that the author got sober in AA but stayed sober on his own. Not something I particularly want to try, but interesting none-the-less. The second, and much more intriguing thing for me was the author's descriptions of the various "faces" of AA. So many people believe AA to be a set, stagnant program where every meeting and every member are carbon copies of the next. This is simply and obviously not the case.

Thanks again!!

Dan · 08-07-2005, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by lulu70

So many people believe AA to be a set, stagnant program where every meeting and every member are carbon copies of the next. This is simply and obviously not the case.

Exactemently

bikewench · 08-07-2005, 09:08 PM

Good article Dan.. thanks.. ;o)

Ingletraz...
had a good chuckle over that...

hopealwayz · 08-07-2005, 09:13 PM

That was cool, Dan.

collinsmi · 08-08-2005, 07:40 AM

Very interesting!

Millwallj · 08-08-2005, 07:48 AM

Dan, where can I get the full article?

Dan · 08-08-2005, 09:01 AM

Apparently, it's an excerpt from a book.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0...536461,00.html

08-07-2005, 07:33 PM	#2 (permalink)
lulu70 We all need each other. Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: The road of happy destiny. Posts: 2,294	Thanks, Dan. There were a couple aspects of that article which I found particularly interesting. The first is the fact that the author got sober in AA but stayed sober on his own. Not something I particularly want to try, but interesting none-the-less. The second, and much more intriguing thing for me was the author's descriptions of the various "faces" of AA. So many people believe AA to be a set, stagnant program where every meeting and every member are carbon copies of the next. This is simply and obviously not the case. Thanks again!! __________________ "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.....do the thing you think you cannot do." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

08-08-2005, 07:40 AM	#6 (permalink)
collinsmi Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Colorado Springs CO Posts: 889	Very interesting! __________________ "I was violating my standards faster than I could lower them!"

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bikewench Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: western canada Posts: 1,441	Good article Dan.. thanks.. ;o) Ingletraz... had a good chuckle over that...

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Dan Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 8,710	Apparently, it's an excerpt from a book. http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0...536461,00.html

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