http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AA12n12/ Twelve and Twelve Quote of the Day Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:17:20 GMT amemberofalcoholicsanonymous http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AA12n12/message/1532 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AA12n12/message/1532 "It is nowhere evident, at least in this life, that our Creator expects us fully to eliminate our instinctual drives. So far as we know, it is nowhere on the Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:31:04 GMT amemberofalcoholicsanonymous http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AA12n12/message/1531 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AA12n12/message/1531 "This practice of admitting one's defects to another person is, of course, very ancient. It has been validated in every century, and it characterizes the lives Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:57:52 GMT amemberofalcoholicsanonymous http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AA12n12/message/1530 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AA12n12/message/1530 "But that is not all of the danger. Every time a person imposes his instincts unreasonably upon others, unhappiness follows. If the pursuit of wealth tramples Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:33:32 GMT amemberofalcoholicsanonymous http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AA12n12/message/1529 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AA12n12/message/1529 "The trouble is that this kind of thinking takes no real account of the facts. And the facts seem to be these: The more we become willing to depend upon a Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:05:59 GMT amemberofalcoholicsanonymous http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AA12n12/message/1528 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AA12n12/message/1528 "Then I woke up. I had to admit that AA showed results, prodigious results. I saw that my attitude regarding these had been anything but scientific. It wasn't Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:26:48 GMT amemberofalcoholicsanonymous http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AA12n12/message/1527 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AA12n12/message/1527 "It is a tremendous satisfaction to record that in the following years this changed. Alcoholics who still had their health, their families, their jobs, and Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:16:10 GMT amemberofalcoholicsanonymous http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AA12n12/message/1526 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AA12n12/message/1526 "This phenomenon of contrast really set us thinking. Squarely before us was the question 'How anonymous should an AA member be?' Our growth made it plain that Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:26:20 GMT amemberofalcoholicsanonymous http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AA12n12/message/1525 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AA12n12/message/1525 "In the beginning, the press could not understand our refusal of all personal publicity. They were genuinely baffled by our insistence upon anonymity. Then Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:40:29 GMT amemberofalcoholicsanonymous http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AA12n12/message/1524 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AA12n12/message/1524 "The Washingtonian Society, a movement among alcoholics which started in Baltimore a century ago, almost discovered the answer to alcoholism. At first, the Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:36:28 GMT amemberofalcoholicsanonymous http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AA12n12/message/1523 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AA12n12/message/1523 "At this juncture, we can hear a churchman exclaim, 'They are making disobedience a virtue!' He is joined by a psychiatrist who says, 'Defiant brats! They Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:24:00 GMT amemberofalcoholicsanonymous http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AA12n12/message/1522 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AA12n12/message/1522 "Take the case of the club janitor and cook. If a club is going to function, it has to be habitable and hospitable. We tried volunteers, who were quickly Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:59:24 GMT amemberofalcoholicsanonymous http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AA12n12/message/1521 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AA12n12/message/1521 "In this connection, Bill likes to tell the following pointed story. He explains that when Jack Alexander's Saturday Evening Post piece broke in 1941, Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:00:39 GMT amemberofalcoholicsanonymous http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AA12n12/message/1520 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AA12n12/message/1520 "In consternation, we saw ourselves getting married to all kinds of enterprises, some good and some not so good. Watching alcoholics committed willy-nilly to Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:34:35 GMT amemberofalcoholicsanonymous http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AA12n12/message/1519 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AA12n12/message/1519 "'I was soon sitting beside a big hulk of a man. Decidedly unfriendly, he stared at me out of eyes which were slits in his red and swollen face. I had to agree Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:56:19 GMT amemberofalcoholicsanonymous http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AA12n12/message/1518 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AA12n12/message/1518 "When AA was still young, lots of eager groups were forming. In a town we'll call Middleton, a real crackerjack had started up. The townspeople were as hot as