... a church basement meeting show up.... like maybe people who don't know their way around AA yet? Or maybe people who have some problems that we don't like to think about. Or maybe people who don't belong ... stinky old meetings there, with the stinky old drunks there. I became the GSR of that group for a while. I made sure that people knew the difference between a club and an AA group. ...

...    /AA\ _)   /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Meetings "A 'spiritual experience' to me meant attending meetings, seeing a group of people, all there for the purpose of helping each other; hearing the Twelve Steps and ... read at a meeting, and hearing the Lord's Prayer, which in an AA meeting has such great meaning -- 'They will be done, not mine.' A spiritual ...

... basis. He said the fellow sounded in dire need and quite sincere about giving AA a good try. He's been going to some meetings since he got out of treatment, and is looking for a sponsor. I just think it's really kool, the relationships we forge in AA, so that even after not seeing one another for probably 8 years, John can still call me anytime and ask for my/HP ...

... tradition as the one that allowed them to remain a member of AA when all else seemed to warrant excommunication or desertion.  But I' ... drinking, I was trying only to drink and not get caught. So when I began attending meetings of AA and heard mention of the 3rd Tradition ... membership to this even lower level (I've always appreciated AA's setting the bar for admission to a very low ...

... ? People seem to always be trying to wrest a "rate" out of AA literature and pamphlets or unscientifically collected bits and ... It's Traditions prevent it. Indirectly but they do. Trying to compare AA's "success rate" ... plain silly to even attempt such a thing. If I can go to ten AA meetings -- relapsing after each of the first nine before finally recovering and staying ...

... 39;t choose to implement them. At the APA's fall board of directors meetings this week, the board voted to change it so that they'll pick the national leadership, not the membership ... the policies, directives, and resolutions of the Board of Directors." Later, when APA held meetings at all nine bases, some bases resisted showing their members the prepared material sent out to all bases ...