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> > Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:40:48 -1000
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> > Subject: Re: [AAHistoryLovers] Price of things since 1935...
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> > My personal experience has been that while in treatment I was
encouraged to
> > participate in AA meetings, including putting money in the basket.
> > The centre I went through provides rooms and encourages meetings
and has
> > forgone collecting rent so a meeting can get off the ground and
become
> > established.
> >
> > Fiona D
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> > On Mar 7, 2006, at 11:46, ArtSheehan wrote:
> >
> >> Several years ago some posters and flyers were distributed
asking
> >> members to consider donating $2, instead of $1, in the 7th
Tradition
> >> collections at meetings. I think this is a touchy issue since
there
> >> are a number of members who just can't afford to do so. It
should be
> >> left up to each member to decide for themselves. My appeal
would be
> >> for each member to just try to donate something no matter how
small.
> >
> > Is there, to anyone's knowledge, a protocol on donations from
> > treatment center in-patients sent to AA meetings? I'm guessing
there
> > is no right way to handle the awkward fact that so many patients
are
> > sent to our meetings by profit-making treatment centers yet put
> > nothing in the basket. Of course the patient should not be
expected
> > to contribute, but the "provider" is charging the
patient or the
> > state money for the treatment and using AA as a free resource.
> >
> > Arkie
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Not sure where these meetings are that you talk about but agree that
those interested ina solution should listen to those that are able to
offer one. Step 2 "Came to beleive that a power greater than ourselves
could restore us to sanity" clearly states that we are insane till we
have the essential personality change brought on by folowing the
steps. Those not working the steps or new to the program are in no
position to offer anything but the a deluded view of reality that has
landed them there in the first place. I've been to many meetings while
in early recovery and found til i completed the steps exactly as
outlined in the big book i had no idea what i was talking about and
basically stayed in the problem. Those interested in a solution and
sick of living in the problem will be the ones that are happy to
listen. God bless.
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++++Message 3257. . . . . . . . . . . . Are any AAHL''s going to Ireland
From: Shakey1aa@aol.com . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/16/2006 12:00:00 PM
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The 60th Anniversary of AA in Ireland will be celebrated in Cork Ireland
next month at the All Ireland convention. Do any AAHL members plan to
attend?
Are there any AAHL members in Ireland besides Fiona D., who has most
graciously
agreed to show us County Mayo and the birthplace of Sister Ignatia ?
also,
There will be a closed meeting of the Archives Committee in
Philadelphia, Pa at 444 N.3rd St 3rd floor at 1 PM on Saturday 3/18/06. We
will
play a
videotape of Conor F (the man who took AA to Ireland/ Europe and Dr. Moore (
who provides Conor with Richard P.) the 1st man sober in Ireland. Because it
is
a videotape from 1982 it will be a closed meeting(for alcoholics only)
The statement of anonymity will be read at the meeting
Yours in Service,
Shakey Mike G
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++++Message 3258. . . . . . . . . . . . RE: Crooked thinking
From: David Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . 3/16/2006 5:04:00 PM
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I don't know whether you would consider this, it is just opinion and I
have
no evidence to back it up.
But, Bill's use of recent historical events as part of his argument,
such as
the Titanic when it comes to the part "we are like passengers of a
great
liner."
Would suggest that recent social/historical events were maybe in his mind,
this said, then an employer may look on an alcoholic as a liability and not
worth the investment in salvaging. Given that in recent memory the US has
had a depression no shortage of willing workers; and the prohibition a moral
judgment and one that may have increased in some way the numbers of
alcoholics.
Then the second world war intervened and ended the employment problem and
gave the country a focus and unity.
My question would be; how were employers inclined to think post war rather
than pre war.
God bless
Dave
it would be my guess that employers are more inclined to think in
intellectual terms than medical or spiritual. especially in that time, when
alcoholism was considered more of a moral dilema than a spiritual mallody or
terminal illness.
just a thought.
C. Cook
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