nanita

Okay, guys. I read the chapter "We Agnostics". I also looked up agnostic in the dictionary. An agnostic is someone who finds it impossible to decide whether or not God exists. That describes me to a "T". I am neither a believer nor a disbeliever. I'm somewhere in limbo on that topic and really wish I knew the answer. Perhaps time will provide me with that answer.

I hope I don't make you mad, Tazman, but I honestly got nothing out of reading that chapter. I read it sober and with an open mind, but it didn't affect me in the least. However, I did go into the appendix after reading it and read the section on Spritual Experience. At the end of that section is a quote by Herbert Spencer. "There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance -- that principle is contempt prior to investigation."

Based on that quote, I'm not going to allow myself to fall in the category of everlasting ignorance. I'm going to investigate with an open mind. As a matter of fact, when I make my doctor appt. with my regular physician in early December, re Antabuse, I'm going to schedule that appt. around an AA meeting and check it out. But - I'm not going to drive that 62 mile one-way trip over the pass specifically to attend a meeting. Nor am I going to allow my addiction specialist to "blackmail" me into attending AA. However, when I can kill two birds with one stone, I will take advantage of the meeting and do so with an open mind.

So -
Nanita

GlassPrisoner

Hey Nanita, the appendix you read is the one most sponsors tell a newcomer to read, usually right after Bills story. And that quote by Herbert Spencer is a mantra for us.

doorknob

It's actually a William Paley quote that was morphed and falsely attributed to Herbert Spencer, or atleast that's what extensive research suggests.

http://www.geocities.com/fitquotation/

GlassPrisoner

Meh, I don't care who wrote it. It works for me.