Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
05-14-2021, 07:52 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 31,740
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Forum: New Member Check In
02-13-2021, 12:39 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 5,684
Welcome friends,
I'm just doing my...
Welcome friends,
I'm just doing my (un)usual cruise through history, as I remembered I was an addict.
God is good. I hope you are too.
Be Well,
Larry
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Forum: A.A. History With Dick B.
11-23-2018, 08:05 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 52,872
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Forum: Sponsors and Sponsees Help Forum
02-20-2014, 08:22 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 27,078
What's the difference between a sponsor and a...
What's the difference between a sponsor and a close friend. It seems the "sponsor" label elevates the sponsor or rather subjagates the sponcee. I can fully appretiate having a confidant to mull...
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Forum: A.A. History With Dick B.
01-19-2014, 04:22 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 52,872
Home Group Activities
Our home group puts on 2 dances a year, St. Patricks Day and Halloween. Holidays that traditional are spent in bars, drinking. We supply soft-drinks and coffee, some munchies (pizza, chips, etc) and...
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Forum: Sponsors and Sponsees Help Forum
01-18-2014, 09:27 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 27,078
I sometimes question the role of sponsors in...
I sometimes question the role of sponsors in "today's AA". I suppose it's attitudes like you expressed in the above qoute. Surely not every sponsor is perfectly enlightened in wisdom and the ways of...
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Forum: A.A. History With Dick B.
12-31-2013, 10:04 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 41,034
"...many people just rely on religion..."
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"...many people just rely on religion..."
Faith without works is dead. Hence steps 10-12. I believe that's the difference between religion and AA.
Suggestions? there is only one. The AA program...
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Forum: A.A. History With Dick B.
12-23-2013, 12:44 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 41,034
I missed something...sorry. I really should be...
I missed something...sorry. I really should be more vigalant.
I hold the bible in higher regard, although I do concede the Big Book may have been inspired. Of course within the meeting/rooms the...
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Forum: A.A. History With Dick B.
12-18-2013, 04:19 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 11,992
Attended a BB study....?
I attended a BB study meeting last night, The facilitator informed us the Bill W had his Spiritual Awakening (White Light Version) while under the influence of phenobarbitol. I didn't think it was...
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Forum: A.A. History With Dick B.
12-06-2013, 03:42 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 41,034
I have highlighted the word "God" throughout my...
I have highlighted the word "God" throughout my BB and stress the lack of the word sponsor. Seems to many people inflate their own ego's demanding newcomers to follow their program, not that of AA.
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
12-01-2013, 12:14 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 11,601
Another week gone, this bothers me. Funny how...
Another week gone, this bothers me. Funny how fast time goes at this stage of life (with the exception of when one is in jail...inside joke...Ahhh, get it?).
I fear something is terribly wrong...
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
11-24-2013, 08:37 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 11,601
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Forum: New Member Check In
11-23-2013, 08:48 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 4,600
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
11-23-2013, 09:27 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 11,601
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
11-22-2013, 07:57 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 11,601
"And how will this be accomplished? For I have...
"And how will this be accomplished? For I have neither the knowledge nor the
experience to achieve greatness and already I have stumbled in ignorance and fallen
into pools of self-pity. The answer...
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
11-20-2013, 11:36 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 11,601
There is no failure except in the not trying.
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There is no failure except in the not trying.
Wisdom, unfortunately, is gained through experience. And as we make our way through life many of the difficulties we experience, it is learned, only...
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
11-17-2013, 08:55 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 11,601
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
11-16-2013, 09:34 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 11,601
"Failure will no longer by my payment for my...
"Failure will no longer by my payment for my struggle. Just as nature made no
provision for my body to tolerate pain neither has it made any provision for my life
to suffer failure. Failure, like...
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Forum: Sponsors and Sponsees Help Forum
11-16-2013, 08:12 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 7,364
Funny thing is in the Big Book the talk of...
Funny thing is in the Big Book the talk of working with another alcoholic during the first few days of sobriety, although they really don't speak of sponsorship, atleast not the way it's used today....
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
11-15-2013, 05:18 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 11,601
The scroll marked #1
"Today I begin a new life....
The scroll marked #1
"Today I begin a new life.
Today I shed my old skin, which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity.
Today I am born anew and my birthplace...
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Forum: Sponsors and Sponsees Help Forum
11-14-2013, 07:41 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 7,364
Sponsorship, the otherway
I have attended meetings for many years, I only have a few years "in" recovery. I have been opening/making making coffee for four cycles of a Big Book study and...
...In my humble opinion, the...
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
11-12-2013, 11:04 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 11,601
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
11-09-2013, 09:32 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 11,601
Well that was the plan.
My how things change. ...
Well that was the plan.
My how things change.
I spent most of October in jail because I am in love with an alcoholic-crackhead BPD. I triend to interfere with her using and she told the police I...
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
11-09-2013, 08:52 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 10,116
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
09-03-2013, 04:05 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 11,601
recoveredcrackhead@yahoo
yep, that's my e-mail, I thought it might be easy for addicts to remember, I may have been wrong. Or they may just like doing drugs and don't care about others suffering. I do.
I started smoking...
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Forum: Inspirations, Poetry, Quotes, Thoughts, Etc
09-03-2013, 03:28 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 3,805
Thanks...
I realized early on that i had a...knack with words. Particularly in poetic form. and although i have written many pieces, the credit goes to God, I, for some reason am the vehicle through which they...
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-14-2013, 07:48 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 47,442
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Forum: Daily Spiritual Meditations
08-11-2013, 03:36 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 29,906
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Forum: New Member Check In
08-10-2013, 10:48 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 9,007
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-10-2013, 10:43 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 47,442
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Forum: Spiritual Recovery
08-08-2013, 01:36 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 14,376
I almost agree.
Where I see the problem is...
I almost agree.
Where I see the problem is in the word "find'. Seems to me (IMHO) the the program was crafted at a time when most people had an understanding, they did not need to "develope" one....
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Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions
08-08-2013, 10:07 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 25,378
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Forum: Daily Recovery Readings
08-08-2013, 10:03 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 47,442
WOW (Words Of Wit/Wisdom)
"Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can...
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Forum: Spiritual Recovery
08-06-2013, 01:52 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 14,376
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Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions
08-05-2013, 08:47 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 13,851
Step one
"We admitted we were powerless over alcohol, that our lives had become unmanageable."
Copyright A.A. World Services, Inc.
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Forum: Daily Spiritual Meditations
08-05-2013, 08:35 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 29,906
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Forum: Spiritual Recovery
08-05-2013, 08:28 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 14,376
Spirituality in AA
I don't know what happened in AA, but I certainly don't get the message the book seems to tell by sitting in meetings.
Primarily; the AA book mentions God 64 times in the primary text (first...
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Forum: Daily Gratitude
08-05-2013, 07:46 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 17,276
Pay it forward,
i have been told to be thankful for the gifts I am about to receive, which therefore creates in my mind the impression that I already have them and thereby removing the obsession to "have" or "want"....
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Forum: Daily Gratitude
08-05-2013, 07:32 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 12,974
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Forum: New Member Check In
08-05-2013, 06:53 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 14,659
What an Honor.
Ironic though,
The first newcomer to sign in has been in recovery for a bit and now goes to college for chem. dep. couns.
So, incase you didn't know:
recoveredcrackhead@yahoo.com is my...
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