Does anyone know the page in the Big Book that warns us of 'quick money deals?' I know someone recruiting for a pyramid schemes at meetings. This is not a good thing. Any help would be appreciated.
Also of importance for most alcoholics are the questions they must ask about their behavior respecting financial and emotional security. In these areas fear, greed, possessiveness, and pride have too often done their worst. Surveying his business or employment record, almost any alcoholic can ask questions like these: In addition to my drinking problem, what character defects contributed to my financial instability? Did fear and inferiority about my fitness for my job destroy my confidence and fill me with conflict? Did I try to cover up those feelings of inadequacy by bluffing, cheating, lying, or evading responsibility? Or by griping that others failed to recognize my truly exceptional abilities? Did I overvalue myself and play the big shot? Did I have such unprincipled ambition that I double-crossed and undercut my associates? Was I extravagant? Did I recklessly borrow money, caring little whether it was repaid or not? Was I a pinch penny, refusing to support my family properly? Did I cut corners financially? What about the "quick money" deals, the stock market, and the races?
-- Edited by Jane05 on Tuesday 21st of April 2009 08:18:05 PM
"Only AA literature can be read in a AA meeting". Pyramids are about using others for my own gain and although a part of their proceedures is to teach others to do what it is that I am doing for myself (kinda like financial sponsorship) recovery is about money. HP is money. If it is around or in a meeting it is not supportive of recovery from alcoholism and is the wrong message. Not a recoverying member.
