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Some members here need to ask themselves this very question. In pursuit of expressing yourself do you harm others here?

Page124 Productions is releasing a "new" never before seen documentary of the occultist, LSD taking, adulterous, con man known as Bill W. on May 18, 2012. Although advertized as "new" with never seen before tidbits of the man who started the cult of Alcoholics Anonymous, I can see nothing "new" in the story line of the con man who started the Recovery Industry Cartel that is causing the Medical Insurance in the US to sky rocket and labeling nearly everyone who drinks as a diseased person in need of Hazelden style training in the proper way to chant and hold Bill Wilson rituals.

We may have beat up this topic quite a bit in the “Did the OP ruin your AA?” thread. I’d like opinions and ideas about an extension of the dui problem. Not as it pertains to AA, but how offenders are sentenced. I asked my Mom the following question a while back:

“If you were a juror on a dui case, how do you think you would handle the dui driver that had killed a person after blacking out?”.

Excluding speaker meetings, what's the longest AA/NA share you have ever heard?

The Spiritual foundation of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and the global book selling empire it has spawned headed by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. (AAWS) at the Interchurch Center in New York city was founded by an unemployable salesman called Bill Wilson. You can only buy a "Big Book" from AAWS publishing or Hazelden and nowhere else. Anyone else trying to sell or give away copies of the "Big Book" that are not purchased from the original end manufacturer (OEM) of AAWS or Hazelden face legal lawsuits from AAWS that are not "conference approved" by the fellowship.

I might make this a LONG blog Entry.

Sober is not about NOT drinking, it's about LIVING.

Family therapy, great relationships, participating in LIFE and all the oppotunities that you can create or that may come your way.

Exercise gentle and hard.

Adequate rest.

Good healthy living food.

I am on the NON 12th step sanity plan......

Get up at 5am, washed, dressed, fed and go for an hours walk....

Create things like vegetable gardens.....

Live the day in hour slots - composed of :

I doubt if any in the USA have heard of this creature but he is a very highly paid uk footballer who has been to prison on several occasions for serious violence and claims AA has helped him. He showed great serenity by being sent of in the title deciding game which was watched by millions on Sunday for attacking 3 players. He does not exactly fit the AA celeb poster boy image but does reflect a certain percentage that do attend meetings and have not perfected a serene way of living.

I knew a guy in AA who shared the following story at every meeting he went to (paraphrased):

"I had previously been an atheist, but in AA I had come to find my own conception of God as i understood him. I developed a conscious contact with God, and he would speak to me, advising me of his will for me, such as needing to get some milk. But then one day, i was looking out the window, and God told me to jump. I considered it for a moment, then realised that God would not want me to kill myself. It was then that i realised the voice was not God after all."

AA-ers really do have their own unique idea of hilarity.

In a previous post, msafrany referred to the phrase: "AA will screw up your drinking"

Other "comedic gold" which i have observed to elicit a roar of laughter include:

Treckies or Trekkers .... Steppies or Steppers

A discussion of the different types of AA members...