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  Twelve Steps, The Thought Made Me Wretch, Until I Bled To Death.

    Yeah, I said it. I’m a recovering addict and I hated 12 Step. Somehow I managed to avoid NA for 15 years of meth addiction, with the exception of a short time when I was 19. I ended up putting myself in a psych ward 6 months before I turned 20 for hurting myself. [...]
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  A Doctor, A Lawyer, and An Indian Chief.

  Bill Wilson was introduced to Dr. Robert Smith who was not able to get and stay sober for any length of time despite his best efforts. Robert Smith told Bill that he would (reluctantly) give him 15 minutes. Robert told him that he had taken the cure, been to therapy had been prayed over, that [...]
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  The First Chip Monk Started With a Habit: Sister Ignatia

   The beginning of the  beginners chip or the desire chip. An outward sign of an inner commitment to try our way of life (to stay sober) for 24 hours, are there any takers? If it doesn’t work for you we will gladly refund your misery. “In 1950, the year of his death, (Dr. Bob Smith) carried the A.A. message to more than [...]
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  Rowdy Rum, It’s where the sage, the wise, and the fool, engage in the recovery duel

  We are announcing an alliance today of The Rowdy Rum with Rum Radio. We think this will be a great union of Internet Recovery Chat and Internet Talk Radio. We encourage all of our members to check out Rum Radio at http://rumradio.org/. Every Sunday night at 9:00 Central Time Joseph has his live streaming radio talk [...]
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  Da Plane Boss, Da plain! Tattoo into your Consciousness, it’s The Spiritual Plain

                  To get well, little charity, in the ordinary sense of the word, is needed or wanted. The men, who cry for money and shelter before conquering alcohol, are on the wrong track. Yet we do go to great extremes to provide each other with these very things, [...]
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  A.A. threatens to fire God, demands more benefits and less participation

    By Joseph on November 24, 2012 | Edit   1                   Be quick to see where religious people are right. Make use of what they offer. They may not all be right, but try to see where anyone may be right, a statement of humility and another such statement.” We realize [...]
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  It’s a dark night of the soul, when recovery starts to grow cold

  “We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn’t control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we couldn’t make a living, we had a feeling of uselessness, we were full of fear, we were unhappy, we couldn’t seem to be of real help to other people” — Big Book, page [...]
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  Nobody ever forgets where they buried the spiritual axiom

  It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us.   If somebody hurts us and we are sore, we are in the wrong also.  But are there no exceptions to this rule?  What about “justifiable” anger?  If somebody cheats us, aren’t we [...]
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  Meditation: An attempt at thinking not to think

                GOODNESS AND THE GENEROSITY OF THE HEART IS THE BEGINNING OF MEDITATION Meditation: Medicine for the mind As of late I have been breaking bread and communing with the evangelical Christian singles. Although I am not of that particular ilk of religious veneration of conviction, for I consider [...]
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  Some of the best Christians I ever met were atheists.

                When coming into the rooms of recovery we are often spiritually and morally bankrupt and spirituality is more than uncomfortable it is painful liken onto when shadows recoil from the light. Often times an out side power source is sought in order to begin the weaning off process [...]
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  An A.A. meeting matinee, a “Popeye” cartoon and the feature “A Most Fatal Attraction

                  The chair was an old black street savvy alcoholic named Sherman; Sherman in his day was a hard core and chronic relapse living on the Streets of San Francisco (Not the TV. Series) and the Bakersfield bay area. Sherman was rescued by a little white feller named [...]
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  Twelve gripping tales of amends, God might be all forgiving but the state of Mississippi tends to be a little more hard nosed

  Twelve gripping tales of amends, God might be all forgiving but the Police tend to be a little more hard nosed about some things In purse or pocket we deposit our pride for our ego has been a wobbling curse in a wallard out sprocket just out of sight.  The number one fear is speaking [...]