WE DO NOT COMPROMISE ON THE PRINCIPLES OF THE AA PROGRAM!
People tend to get the principles confused with confused with other things that can and perhaps should be compromised or changed. It’s very important that we always know where that line is. Between that which can or should be changed and that which cannot or should not be changed.
Sometimes 1 rule or a change in policy will not bring the whole thing toppling down – Oftentimes it’s the slow drip trend which repeats itself until what you started out with no longer looks like it did originally. A lot of people can’t catch this while it is going on especially over a drawn out period of time. Alcoholics Anonymous needs to remain mindful of this as much as any other entity or organization.
Just because somebody doesn’t speak up doesn’t mean they’re not being affected by what’s going on around them.
So what change is start to take place as we move up the ladder of intelligence from person to person?
I have to grow in spite of myself and in spite of the world around me.
If you are willing to do more than the circumstances and more than what man himself demands of you as as a consequence -then you have nothing to fear. It is only when we are of the mind of doing or giving less than what is demanded of a sore required of us that we experience fear.
Flexibility is a spiritual principle, rigidity is not. When you put in rules like closing the meeting promptly at 8 o’clock, telling people not to be texting publicly on zoom, and placing a 3 minute time limit on people, who are you serving?
An alcohol it’s anonymous the fewer the rules the better – It is the indication of a healthy group.
Fewer rules in a society I an indication of a healthier society – So I guess the United States must not be filled with very healthy people
Pain comes from resistance I was told many years ago.
Mixed race couples – Is what is taking shape in the world today of God’s plan or man’s? Man is always seeking advantage, or freedom from…
Don’t let the world get in your head -it’s the worst thing! Satan even worse!
We’re trying to enhance the quality of the group for all, not lower it.
Alcoholics probably aren’t much different now than they were 80 years ago – The people in Alcoholics Anonymous today are probably the same as they were last year, 5 years ago, 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 50 years ago… that that includes certain people going over on the time period so what’s changed that we need to be timing people and putting in new rules? It’s quite simple, P people today are less tolerant than the people who apeople were a year, 5 years, 15 years ago in the 7:00 a.m. sober @ sunrise meeting.