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06-10-2007, 03:44 PM
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| Member  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Southern New Hampshire
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| What is the AA Message? As today marks Dr. Bob's permanent sobriety date and the birthdate of AA, I wonder what they might think of the "Message" today. Would they tell the newcomer: 1.Just don't drink? 2. GO to 90 in 90? 3.Fake it till you make it? 4. Sobriety is in the coffee Pot? 5. You have to wait a year to sponsor someone? 6. This is a selfish program? I suspect they would relate their experience with drinking and then say, you have a malady of the body, mind, and soul that only a spiritual experience can conquer. Here are the steps we took as a program of recovery, are you willing to go to any length to recover from this seemingly hopeless state of mind and body? How does one have a spiritual experience sufficient enough to recover from alcoholism? I'm sure there are many, Alcoholics Anonomous offers 1. The program of recovery as outlined in our basic text, The Big Book. |
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06-10-2007, 03:59 PM
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| Just a fool, swimming in love  Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: San Diego, CA
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|  Happy Birthday, AA! 72 Years of miracles! Read the Big Book? What a concept. What's my message? That my obsession to drink has been removed as the result of working the 12 steps. Happy Birthday to us all! Thank you, Rob. Eveybody else: What's your message? |
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__________________ It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupery | |
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06-10-2007, 05:11 PM
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| Coffee Maker  Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Lobstah Land
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| Come with us, Join us, Become one with us. You need never be alone again. |
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__________________ He, who by good deeds covers the evil he has done, illuminates this world like the moon freed from clouds. Buddha (Not inebriated (Amethystos) since:9/27/07) | |
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06-10-2007, 07:23 PM
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| sobriety is my yoga  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: in the present moment
Posts: 1,799
| you never have to drink again. There IS a solution....(ditto GP) |
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__________________ i close my eyes and see clearly i stop trying to listen and hear truth i am silent and my heart sings i seek no contact and find union i am still and move forward i am gentle and need no strength i am humble and remain whole (ancient taoist meditation) | |
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06-10-2007, 09:27 PM
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| Moderator  Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Jah-mek-yah
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| I take most of my recovery straight from the pages of the Big Book. "Fellowship" provides me with the physical proof I need that recovery is possible and allows me a chance to give back some of what has been given me. Many of the slogans I hear in AA never came out of the Big Book and though many of them contain pearls of wisdom there are some that I will question. "Dry drunk" "Relapse is a part of recovery" & "This is a selfish programme" .......are some of them. |
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06-11-2007, 08:09 AM
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| Follow Directions!  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Fredericksburg, Va.
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| There is a solution. GP nailed it!! There is a solution! If you want what we have there is a solution! |
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__________________ All BB quotes are from the First Edition of the BB Follow directions! Sobriety date 18 Sept. 2006 Sober today thanks to AA | |
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06-11-2007, 01:33 PM
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| Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Chicago, IL
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| I don't think Bill & Bob would be saying the famous, "no relationships the first year in sobriety." Come on now, that's like telling high school kids not to date. If their is an attraction, it will happen. I believe this saying was made up by old AA men who could no longer get females. lol |
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