Yes, this is an outside issue. And this is my blog so I can do whatever I want. The fellowship of AA has brought this issue into AA and has put it on the table - for the 5th Edition of the Book Alcoholics Anonymous to be changed to be gender-friendly, so I am going … Continue reading Transgender Alcoholics – An Internal Geographic Cure?
Category: Moral Principles
The Newcomer – The Life Blood of AA… The Most Important Person
I guess that was bullshit. I guess the most important person really to anyone is themselves and their little plans and designs. Last week I was 12 stepping a guy I met through another endeavor. He, it turned out, is homeless in a city south of me about an hour and a half. I called … Continue reading The Newcomer – The Life Blood of AA… The Most Important Person
Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty - Humming and Dumbing - here we are, the average Joe alcoholic - comes in to AA because it's gotten annoying - that pesky disease of alcoholism - just getting very inconvenient- he just wants to get the wife off his back, get his job back, get back in the big bed...3 hots … Continue reading Humpty Dumpty
Daily Reflections March 21, 2020
The actual quote is "Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us." The Book was written in a group conscience and so therefore, is it my "right" to quote it the way I want to - ie "Fear...of economic insecurity will leave us." ? The AA bilaws say that we will do nothing … Continue reading Daily Reflections March 21, 2020
You Can Use A Car As A Table
The other day, I got in an argument with my boyfriend about our group conscience and the Traditions etc. He said that I forced my will on Sunday to follow my rule about sharing e, s, & h when a person new to our group shows up. He said that how do I even know … Continue reading You Can Use A Car As A Table
The Trivium Using The Traditions: 11
There is never need to praise Who: ourselves, we What: feel it better When: to let Who: our friends What: recommend us because (why?) each member of Alcoholics Anonymous is but a small part of a great whole, and AA must continue to live our most of us will surely die: Hence our common welfare … Continue reading The Trivium Using The Traditions: 11
The Trivium Using The Traditions: 12
When: And finally, Who: we of Alcoholics Anonymous, believe that What: the principle of anonymity has What: an immense spiritual significance. What: It reminds us that we are to place principles before personalities; that we are actually to practice a genuine humility. Why: This to the end that our great blessings may never spoil us; … Continue reading The Trivium Using The Traditions: 12
AA Must Continue To Live Or Most Of Us Will Surely Die: Part 2
I have decided to use the Trivium (and Prayer) to try to figure out what is going in AA to find a real solution, for myself. I do not "know" how to use the Trivium. I am still learning. I am trying to use it right now in these posts. It may seem redundant, but … Continue reading AA Must Continue To Live Or Most Of Us Will Surely Die: Part 2
AA Must Continue To Live Or Most Of Us Will Surely Die: Part 1
Trivium: 1. Discover what the problem is: Answers the Question: What?(who, where, when) 2. Discover from the problem, what the solution is: Answers the Question: Why?3. Do something ... solve the problem. Answers the Question: How? Data from which I will answer the question of what the problem is: I went to a meeting last … Continue reading AA Must Continue To Live Or Most Of Us Will Surely Die: Part 1
The Trivium
taken from this page: I recreated this page here as well as giving a link to it above, because I don't want this to go away and become a 404 and I don't believe the authors of this page did either. The Unity Process refers to a process developed by the people who made this … Continue reading The Trivium
Anonymous Alcoholics 