To Thine Own Self Be True - this is referring to Big-S elf. If I was true to my little-s elf, I would get drunk. Put your name on the top of the list of your amends - Well put your Higher Self at the top of the list then this will work because the … Continue reading The Difference between Big-S and Little-s
My Friend Nick From The Ukraine
Back in 2007 this kid, Nick contacted the conference chair of an annual conference groups from our state put on. This conference is not a part of the AA service structure, but it's been going on for many years. This kid had got a hold of tapes of Joe H. and Mark H., 2 Big … Continue reading My Friend Nick From The Ukraine
Live and Let Live and Tradition Four
Referring back to the post I made earlier, "My sponsor told me that his sponsor told him that he could swing is arm as far out as he wanted to until it actually connected with another person’s face. At that point, his autonomy ended." He was talking about Autonomy. Live and Let Live is about … Continue reading Live and Let Live and Tradition Four
Live and Let Live
Live and Let Live basically means Mind Your Own Business, doesn't it? Yes. Well where's the line? My sponsor told me that his sponsor told him that he could swing is arm as far out as he wanted to until it actually connected with another person's face. At that point, his autonomy ended. When I … Continue reading Live and Let Live
How To Think About We Agnostics
How To ThinkWe Agnostics is written for the person educated with the Trivium. It presumes education in logical debate, and it sets out to prove that having faith is logical. WE AGNOSTICS Atheist: rejects all religious belief and denies the existence of God; Agnostic rejects the existence of God i the absence of material proof … Continue reading How To Think About We Agnostics
The 12 Steps Are Natural Law
I just got a bizarre comment on my post by some loser named "Klaus Schwab" - which is pretty hilarious considering that Klaus Schwab is the current face of the New World Order machine, head of the World Economic Forum. So this idiot wants to tell me that AA was created by a man who … Continue reading The 12 Steps Are Natural Law
The Raffle At the Round-Up
Last weekend I attended a Round-up that is in it's 70th Year. It was GREAT to see a lot of my old cohorts that have been God knows where since AAers started thinking that the flu is worse than alcoholism. My sponsor came down from up north where he lives now, 400 miles away - … Continue reading The Raffle At the Round-Up
GSO Has Formed A Committee To Re-evaluate The 3rd and The 5th Traditions.
This is the latest I heard from my passed-delegate friend in Minnesota. Remember a few years ago, they changed the Service Manual outside a conference to read that the Traditions and the Steps could be changed by 2/3 of the world wide fellowship PRESENT. That word, "present" was added. What that meant was that if … Continue reading GSO Has Formed A Committee To Re-evaluate The 3rd and The 5th Traditions.
Idiocracy
AA today. And at any time we can start it all over. How? Read AA Comes of Age including the Appendicies. Read a 3rd Edition of the Big Book and do what it says to do. Study the Traditions and learn to apply them as they are written and then apply the Traditions to problems. … Continue reading Idiocracy
The Bum Run – For Thanksgiving and Christmas
Our group went down to the homeless camp in town with a few half gals of Smirnoff and about 10 quarts of Mad Dog 2020 and cups, to give our buddies on the frontlines an "opener". Now remember, these are street hobos - they are going to get an opener somewhere - so we provided … Continue reading The Bum Run – For Thanksgiving and Christmas
Anonymous Alcoholics 