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First off, if you don’t do the steps of course you go back out. Heck, if you don’t get a sponsor, and won’t do 90 in 90, and won’t do the steps, you were never in! How can you go back out? How can you...
View ArticleQuiet My Imperious Urge
After a romantic dinner of Maalox and Chex Mix, you can really get down…. on your knees! Bow-chicka-bow-wow: An Example of Pre-Sex Inventory Prayer: “God, please help me to be free of fear as I attempt...
View ArticleOver at James Randi…
There’s a thread in the forums called “Why do people insist that AA is not religious.” I thought yall might be interested.
View ArticleGodpuppetry
Last year, we posted a story about Herbert Jones, a deluded 12-stepper who showed up outside of a Portland, Maine AA meeting with a sniper rifle and a load of resentment toward pedophiles. Obviously,...
View ArticleThe Big Book
AA Original Manuscript Reveals Debate on Religion After being hidden away for nearly 70 years and then auctioned twice, the original manuscript by AA co-founder Bill Wilson is about to become public...
View ArticleShock Us To Our Souls
[I updated the title of this post because it was grating on me. When I read this article, I thought “Now here’s a guy who wishes he weren’t too smart for AA.” He found a way to make it sound smarter.]...
View ArticleAlso, AA Members Can Fly
From a CNN interview with Philip Yancey, promoting his new book, “What Good Is God?” CNN: What can churches learn from AA? Yancey: Two lessons stand out sharply to me: radical honesty and radical...
View ArticleWhy We Were Chosen
Why We Were Chosen Group Sometime in the 1980s, a meeting chairman in San Francisco gave me a wallet-sized card engraved with a portion of the text from “WHY WE WERE CHOSEN,” an eponymous speech given...
View ArticleAlcoholics Anonymous and the TABOO of the GEOGRAPHIC change.
Geographical Cure (a.k.a Geographic ): An effort to cure our alcoholism by getting a ‘fresh start’ in a new location. It doesn’t work. There is a saying around AA, ‘Wherever you go, there you are.’...
View ArticleAA Sends Out Its Anonymity Letter
And Romenesko has picked up on it! A day after a Romenesko reader noted that Roger Ebert was an Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor for reporters, A.A. sent a message to journalists on its email list. It says...
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