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Getting started
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I've just made the decision to start aa. I'm at the bottom and see little light ahead. Alcohol is running my life and I realize I'm no longer able to control my world. I have found a local chapter that I want to visit and frankly I'm scared to death. I know there are others here that have been where I am.
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Daily Reflections Feb 15
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TAKING ACTION Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us--sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84 One of the most important things A.A. has given me, in addition to freedom from booze,...
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Daily Reflections Feb 14
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EXPECTATIONS vs. DEMANDS Burn the idea into the consciousness of every man that he can get well regardless of anyone. The only condition is that he trust in God and clean house. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 98 Dealing with expectations is a frequent topic at meetings. It isn't wrong to expect progress of...
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acronyms
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Some helpful acronyms for today:
F.I.N.E. [I'm] Frustrated, Insecure, Neurotic, Emotional
F.E.A.R. Face Everything And Recover
N.U.T.S. Not Using The Steps
E.G.O. Edging God Out
D.E.N.I.A.L. Don't Even Notice I Am Lying
H.A.L.T. [Don't get too] Hungry, Angry, Lone...
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HAPPY LOVE DAY!!!
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hi guys
happy LOVE DAY to all!!! well the worst work in my house re-decor is over and i feel like rigormortis is setting in my tired body!!!
i checked my pulse this am to see if i was still alive!!!
the place (floors) looks great!!! i'll tell ya, i was...
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beer drinking chart
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BEER TROUBLESHOOTING CHART
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So There!
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AA on Toast
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AA on Toast February 1956 AA Grapevine This is what I told Joe: "There are no musts in AA. Take it cafeteria style -- take it your own way. Don't worry about the spiritual part of the program. Take the First Step, but never mind the rest of them right now. Just stay away from the first drink for twen...
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It Just would not Post
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Well, something strange happenend this morning.
I went into Start a new Topic, made a Valentines Day little Post with little hearts all over the page, lost that one, and tried doing it again, lost that one too.
So, the other day when I read the Post on "Does Anyone Else Hate Valentines Day?"&...
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Cool article I just found-link
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http://www.beliefnet.com/story/46/story_4696_1.html
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Today's Thought 2/14
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Loving others begins with respect
So many books have been written on how to love that many of us assume we don't know how and maybe will never learn. We can simplify the process, however, by focusing on the Golden Rule. For starters, we can treat others as respectfully as we'd like to be treated. Peo...
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iT'S BETTER TO GIVE
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When a person is concerned only with giving, there is no anxiety. --Gerald Jampolsky
Whatever we give away returns to us, manifold. When we show love or understanding, when we are gentle or express genuine concern, usually the same will come right back to us. Perhaps not in kind, maybe n...
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Intro
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Hello:
I am here because I need some place to go for support and inspiration. I was sober 2 years, but began to drink again. I now live in a small town where I truly can't go to meetings because of my profession... won't go into that here. I really need an online meeting and perhaps some time soon a sponsor...
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Daily Reflections Feb 13
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WE CAN'T THINK OUR WAY SOBER To the intellectually self-sufficient man or woman, many A.A.'s can say, "Yes, we were like you--far too smart for our own good.... Secretly, we felt we could float above the rest of the folks on our brain power alone." AS BILL SEES IT, p. 60 Even the most brilliant mind is no d...
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"good" in a Christian way
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When we seek to be "good" in a Christian way, we usually think of giving--after all, God has given so much to us. But in the Bible, that's not all there is to goodness. The Bible's examples of goodness come in two ways. We tend to focus on God's goodness as a sudden blessing, an undeserved gen...
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progress report
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well, I'm still at it,,, and progress is being made,,, however slowly. I feel like this is kind of analagous to my recovery journey in general. I've done a little bit as often as I can in the bedroom. An hour one day, and then my shoulder hurts for a couple of days and goes numb, so I have...
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our problems
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Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce, Or a trouble is what you make it, And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how you take it. --Edmund Vance Cooke
Once, a woman decided to throw a problem-exchange party. As guests arrived, they shed all their personal problems and t...
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hi every one
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ok just wanted to say hi to everyone let you all know im doing ok. the funneral wasnt thatfun but it was certainly a tribute to her life and was beautifull.now im stuck in a hotell room another day with the wife and kidds (which is a great thing by the way)the wife and i have had a lott of time to alk about thing...
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Hmmmmmm part 2
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Hi again all,
firstly thankyou all that replyed to my recent post. 
I have just thought of something and was wondering if anyone here can answer my question???????
I have come to belive/understand that the main reason I drank was because I was so unhappy with my life (depressed) , parent...
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is it my puter? or this site?
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I don't know.. the stuff is only loading halfway, and not really working right. Is it me? or are other people having problems right now too?
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Defect--?
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Reflection for the Day
Since I came to The Program, I've begun to recognize my previous inability to form a true partnership with another person. It seems that my egomania created two disastrous pitfalls. Either I insisted upon dominating the people I knew, or I depended on them far too mu...
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Humility
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Dr. Bob defining humility: On his desk, Dr. Bob had a plaque defining humility: "Perpetual quietness of heart. It is to have no trouble. It is never to be fretted or vexed, irritable or sore; to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me,...
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Daily Reflections Feb 12
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"THE ROOT OF OUR TROUBLES" Selfishness--self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of all our troubles. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 62 How amazing the revelation that the world, and everyone in it, can get along just fine with or without me. What a relief to know that people, places and things will...
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True!
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Hi all, found this on a internet search (Lazy B@*&**d just copied and pasted!)
There is a place I go to It's called Oblivion, An easy place to get to Go right ahead and carry on. The thing is, I have no recall Of what goes on in there, Im left with occasional flashbacks and a feeling of desp...
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Love this part of Step 12
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Page 112, Step Twelve, second Paragraph:
"Furthermore, how shall we come to terms with seeming failure of success? Can we now accept and adjust to either without despair or pride? Can we accept poverty, sickness, loneliness, and bereavement with courage and serenity? Can we ste...
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BB Pg ** I really like
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Our book is meant to be suggestive only. We realize that we only know a little. God will constantly disclose more to you and to us. Ask Him in your morning mediation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. The answers will come if your own house is in order. But obviously you cannot transmit so...
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Paradox - WE DIE TO LIVE
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We DIE TO LIVE.
That is a beautiful paradox straight out of the Biblical idea of being "born again" or "in losing one's life to find it." When we work at our Twelve Steps, the old life of guzzling and fuzzy thinking, and all that goes with it, gradually dies, and we acquire a different and a better way of l...
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old time AA
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OLD TIME AA: 1. It's not old behavior if I'm still doing it. 2. If you're looking to have an image in AA, look around at the meetings you go to and take a look at whom you're trying to impress. 3. An alcoholic is a person who wants to be held while he's isolating. 4. Sobriety is the leading cause of relapse. 5...
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmm
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Hi all,
I don't think any of you will remember me coz I spend all my time on the other site (Al-anon).
Anyways I have and did find recovery through that and am greatful.
But I now have a problem.
Last year, the day after my 28th birthday infact, it all went pear shaped, cut a VERY long story short, I h...
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The Little Red Book for Women
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Feeling the need to be perfect, comparing our progress with what we assume is the progress another woman has made, is one of the dangers we face. Women have been comparing themselves with others since childhood. The habit is not easily broken. Yet we must compare our progress today with where we were y...
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today's thought
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Life deals more rigorously with some than others. --Lewis F. Presnall
How often we think about a friend, He sure is lucky! And probably just as often we say to ourselves, Why did that happen to me? It's not fair! The truth is, life isn't always fair. We don't all get the same experiences, the same l...
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Daily Reflections Feb 11
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THE LIMITS OF SELF-RELIANCE We asked ourselves why we had them [fears]. Wasn't it because self-reliance failed us? ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.68 All of my character defects separate me from God's will. When I ignore my association with Him I face the world and my alcoholism alone and must depend o...
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another funny website!
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go to:
http://www.recoverylane.com/jokes__humor.htm
you know, you gotta laugh at your problems or you will go crazy. It's what gets me through every day! Humor is good medicine.
Happy Friday everyone!
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Break Free Of Anger
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Break Free Of Anger
Buried resentments are difficult to escape, but there is always grace. With God's help, spiritual healing is possible. Whenever the pain of life becomes too much for you, turn immediately to Him. He may seem to ask the impossible, but hHs words supply the he...
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Checking in
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Hi Folks just checking in to give you a weekly update of sorts, hope thats OK with you guys? 2 weeks since not a drop, been to the pub tonight to meet a few friends, just still Orange juice. Quite comfortable with others drinking around me, no great "thirst". Reality is starting to hit as to what I`m...
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I learned a lot tonight!
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I had my 6th education class tonight, this one was about drink sizes and equivalents. I had no idea I'd been drinking so much. I didn't know that a regular 12 oz beer was actually 1.5 drinks, and how it affects you. There was quite a bit of math involved, but I got a lot of new informatio...
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Prayer Request
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Hi all.
Just wanted to ask if you all would include my ex, who's still out there, in your prayers. I've been praying for him to be given the gift of desperation for quite some time now and I think I need some reinforments! He really needs help, but he's got to want it, so I figure it will take desperation fo...
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Daily Reflection Feb 10
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I DON'T RUN THE SHOW When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is, or He isn't. What was our choice to be? ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.53 Today my choic...
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Daily Reflection Feb 9
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GETTING THE "SPIRITUAL ANGLE" How often do we sit in AA meetings and hear the speaker declare, "But I haven't yet got the spiritual angle." Prior to this statement, he had described a miracle of transformation which had occurred in him -- not only his release from alcohol, but a complete change in his w...
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Paradox - WE GIVE AWAY TO KEEP.
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WE GIVE AWAY TO KEEP.
That seems absurd and untrue. How can you keep anything if you give it away? But in order to keep whatever it is we get in AA, we must go about giving it away to others, for no fees or rewards of any kind. When we cannot afford to give away what we have received so freely in AA, we had bette...
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todays gift
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Some days my life feels so confusing and overwhelming that I think I'll scream.
Sometimes life is like moving from one place to another. When I move into a new house, it is unorganized and chaotic until everything gets put in the right place. In life, my emotions and thoughts are often like t...
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You were asking Benny..heres a biggy
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Something that I pulled outa the hat...along with the rabbit...
You were asking a few days ago..Benny...and I dont know about you Buddy...but Impatience with this kid...is a work on thing...every day...
Take what you need and leave the rest...
Patience is the ability to: Sit back and w...
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Am I Still willing to Keep Changing
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CHANGE: Willingness, Openness, and Consciousness
“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation.”
—Herbert Spencer
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the hits just keep coming
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hello every one . just got back from a meeting and im still feeling a little down .thought i share a little with you all.today i got the call that a familey member passed.my first thought was where is the closest bar.i was angry and mad and all those things agian i was a week ago when i asked for helpp.iam so g...
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appendix II
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APPENDIX II
THE terms "spiritual experience" and "spiritual awakening" are used many times in this book which, upon careful reading, shows that the personality change sufficient to bring about recovery from alcoholism has manifested itself among us in many different forms.
Yet it is tr...
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more funnies!
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How does alcohol affect what you have to say? Here's a few ways ... THINGS THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN DRUNK: 1. Innovative 2. Preliminary 3. Proliferation 4. Cinnamon THINGS THAT ARE VERY DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN DRUNK: 1. Specificity 2. British Constitution 3. Passive-aggressive disorder THINGS...
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This is so funny, especially if you're a cat lover
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4057591681481453187-- Edited by Michel...
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Some really good reasons not to drink :)
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WARNING: consumption of alcohol may make you think you are whispering when you are not.
WARNING: consumption of alcohol is a major factor in dancing like a TOTAL DORK!.
WARNING: consumption of alcohol may cause you to tell the same boring story over and over again until your friends want to SLAP Y...
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i took the 12steps to the latrine
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i took the 12 Steps to the latrine
last night i decided i was going to tile my master bathroom floor....'
i dug up all the old linoleum tiles, and i had the floor nice and clean and ready to go!!!
things were going GREAT till i got around having to "tile around the toidie" and thats when thi...
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5 Laws of Life You Can Depend On
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5 Laws of Life You Can Depend On 1. This, too, shall pass. Nothing stays the same. The only constant in life is change. With every decision we make, we initiate change. Even when we decide not to decide, life still goes on, and changes still occur. When we are in a state of discomfort, sadness, grief, or pa...
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