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    • [PDF File]WHY ARE WE HERE? In asking Why”?, Mary Jo Leddy proceeds to pose a ...

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      In this case the “Why” is in the “consequence”, the “We” and the “Here” are both specific; “We” being the cellmates and “Here” being the prison. For Mary Jo Leddy “Here” is the land mass, the country of Canada; “We” is the personality of Canada – the cultures and the people we call Canadians.


    • [PDF File]About Being Here - AA Agnostica

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      About Being Here Introduction By Roger C. life-j is the author of a book published 12 days ago on Amazon, About Being Here. And he is my friend. We have known each other since early in 2013. A few months later, on June 30, his first article was published on AA Agnostica, My Path in AA. And in the years since then another 16 of his


    • [PDF File]Alcoholics Anonymous and the Counseling Profession - AA Agnostica

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      AA Step 1: We admitted that we were powerless over alcohol, that our lives had become unmanageable. Proposed Step 1: I realize that I am not in control of my use of alcohol. AA views the admission of powerlessness as the first step toward sobriety. Here, individuals learn that they are passive victims, resting at the mercy of the greater power


    • [PDF File]Why We Were Chosen

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      Why We Were Chosen God in HIS wisdom has selected this group of men and women to be the purveyors of His Goodness. In selecting them through whom to bring about this phenomenon, He went not to the proud, the mighty, the famous or the brilliant. He went to the humble, to the sick, to the unfortunate - He went to the drunkard,


    • [PDF File]Fragments of AA History

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      We are not allied with any partic-ular faith, sect or denomination, nor do we oppose anyone. We simply wish to be helpful to those who are afflicted." The Preamble, initially referred to as "the AA Definition," took its place thereafter in each monthly is-sue of the Grapevine, and soon began to appear in Conference-approved literature and many ...


    • [PDF File]Chapter 3 - More About Alcoholism - (pp. 30-43)

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      stretch, we could thereafter drink normally. But here is a man who at fifty-five years found he was just where he had left off at thirty. We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again: “Once an alcoholic, al-ways an alcoholic.’’ Commencing to drink after a period of sobriety, we are in a short time as bad as ever.


    • [PDF File]CONCEPTS - aa-nia

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      Bernard Smith gave a talk on “Why we have a Conference” referring to the General Service Conference. It is also why we have a group, district and area. You can find a re-print in the A.A. Service Manual. In short, it is about our doors stay open at our meetings. So that alcoholics can find those open doors. So, that


    • [PDF File]Tradition Twelve: Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our ...

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      As we grow, we learn that we have the right to choose our own level of anonymity in meetings. As our Table Anonymity Card (S-9) reminds us, “Whom you see here, what you hear here, when you leave here, let Tradition Twelve: Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles above personalities.


    • Why are We Here? - Arizona Department of Education

      Why are We Here? Unequal access to opportunities. Evenly distributed tools and assistance. Custom tools that identify and address inequality. Fixing the systems to offer equal access to both tools and opportunities. Once you get settled in, say hello in the chat and share your thoughts about the image on the screen.


    • [PDF File]Suggested Virtual Meeting Script - NY Inter-Group

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      ]and I’m an alcoholic. Ours is [an open/a closed] meeting of AA. [Attendance at closed meetings is limited to persons who have a desire to stop drinking. ] We are glad you are here. Preamble Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other that they may solve their


    • [PDF File]Who Is an Addict? - Free State Region of Narcotics Anonymous

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      4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. 5. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. 6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. 7. We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. 8. We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became


    • [PDF File]WHY ARE WE HERE? - Order of Christian Mystics

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      Why Are We Here? 3 oak and no other kind of tree. Why? There is no little bird within the egg, and yet from the egg of each species of bird, that particular kind of bird, and no other, emerges. Why? Evolution From Within: From a spiral nebula a solar system with its suns, moons and planets appears. Why? From the single cell of a fertilized ovum ...


    • [PDF File]12&12 Inside English - Alcoholics Anonymous

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      alcoholism. In fact, we felt duty-bound to throw the whole weight of the A.A. name behind any meritorious cause. Here are some of the things we dreamed. Hospitals didn’t like alcoholics, so we thought we’d build a hospital chain of our own. People needed to be told what alcohol-ism was, so we’d educate the public, even rewrite school


    • [PDF File]Why We Were Chosen - WeJoy AA and Al-anon Speakers

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      Why We Were Chosen God in His wisdom selected this group of men and women to be purveyors of His goodness. In selecting them through whom to bring about this phenomenon He went not to the proud, the mighty, the famous or the brilliant. He went instead to the humble, to the sick, to the unfortunate. He went right to the drunkard, the


    • [PDF File]Why We Were Chosen

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      mind the admission you have made on the day of your entrance into AA, namely, that you are powerless and that it was only with your willingness to turn your life and will into My keeping, that relief came to you… This is an often seen piece of AA literature is a small pamphlet called "Why We Were Chosen.


    • [PDF File]WHY?

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      WHY? If we accept the fact that alcoholism is one of the deadliest maladies known to mankind & chronic alcoholics can not refrain from drinking And If the only requirement for membership in Alcoholics Anonymous is a desire to stop drinking, And If the only known Solution for recovery from alcoholism is a spiritual


    • [PDF File]Why Are We Here? - NA

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      We had to have something different and we thought we had found it in drugs. We placed their use ahead of the welfare of our families, our wives, husbands, and our children. We had to have drugs at all costs. We did many people great harm but most of all we harmed ourselves. Through our inability to accept personal responsibilities we were actually


    • [PDF File]This booklet is published in the interest - Alcoholics Anonymous

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      The AA Programme of Recovery is summarised in the suggested Twelve Steps. These are set out in the book ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS (The ‘Big Book’), which was written and based on the experience of the first hundred AAs to get sober in America. HERE ARE THE TWELVE STEPS 1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had


    • [PDF File]whether we are to survive with Gold’s hand to guide and lead us, or to

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      8. The sacrifices we have made, and those we shall yet support, are not offered vicariously for others, but in our own direct defense. 9. In the final analysis, the issue now joined right here in Korea is whether Communism or individual freedom shall prevail, and, make no mistake, whether the next flight of fear-driven people we have just


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