aa Spoken Here Community Group
Fellowship Where you can share your thoughts, feelings, stories and get support to gain and continue sobriety.
It is posted on another board that at least one member has been banned very recently, probably today. Coupled with the revival of the respect and tolerance post:
As a group member, I'd like to know what's going on. Do I have that right??
As a group member, I'd like to know what's going on. Do I have that right??
This board has let me know that there are others just like me.. and yes the meetings do that... but after meetings you have to go home.... but here you can keep looking for some help and keep reading...
believe me... i am a drunk who cant seem to put it down and is ready to top herself... for anyone to ask the question is this board part of AA just confuses me.... because it was this board that got me to a AA meeting when i feelt that i couldnt do it... and not only that... but the founder... met me and walked into that meeting with me and sat beside me and has cared for me since joining here....
so all i can say to the Question about is this board part of AA ... is yes... and this board has kept me apart of AA when i have felt so ashamed to go to meetings...
i am a piss head right now... but at least i can come here for some sanity to my mental head..... isnt that what AA is ?????
Now cut that out. You already know what a sucker I am for excessive praise.
You ask a question I would not want to have to answer, but mostly only because I do not know all that well the people for whom I could not speak anyway.
Flesh-and-blood battle is not what "we", whoever that might be, are about. Hence, and in keeping with Tradition One, it must cease if any of us are to survive.
Here to help people recover from alcoholism or stroke your own ego? I think some need to check their motives....
Not at all! I left that alone for a couple of reasons, but mostly because it looked like she and Mel might be chatting ...
Further on pg. 174: "Great suffering and great love are AA's disciplinarians; we need no others. It is clear now that we ought never to name boards to govern us, but it is equally clear that we shall always need to authorize workers to serve US. It is the difference between vested authority and the spirit of service, two concepts which are sometimes poles apart.
No post or threads should be deleted/removed because an administrator disagrees with the content. And if the rest of us need "to get organized" to make sure there are no more of these such occurrences, then perhaps that's the route we will have to take. Would As Spoken Here be open to a business meeting?
I am very very new to AA but have to say... is this what AA is all about.
i feel there is under current here. and it makes me feel sad to think that new comers who are in total confusion will come here and see stuff like this...
cant this be sorted by pms... and not where people maybe looking for a lifeline.
if im speaking out of line i am sorry but i cant stand seeing this crap...
isnt it about honesty... well if it is shouldnt that be what we are doing .
This group was set up in order that those seeking help in AA, or thinking about seeking help in AA, would be able to find some support with AA members who are members of DS. It began because there was a lot of talk on the main discussion board that AA was being shoved down people's throats and that it was 'AA or the highway' , not true but there you go!
Lately, there have been personal attacks from people on all sides of this group and I think there has been enough mud-slinging and banning to last a lifetime. Could we please just focus on what I am assuming we all want here - to carry the AA message to all who need and want it?
Sure, we all get heated, sure we disagree with others on here, when has that been a hanging offence?
I am sick of all the 'well, he said 'blah, blah' to me and someone else says 'huh, you think that's bad??? She said this to me, it crazy.
There are some people here with whom I do not engage, they drive me nuts, and I drive them nuts, so I don't go there - it's easier that way. We are supposed to be living by spiritual principles as AA members wherever we are and that must include here right??
We have that old-fashioned concept of amends making if we get out of line with someone or they with us. Let's use it eh??
I was hoping that this group would be a cool place in which to carry the message but at the moment I feel like 'Life's too short for all of this.'
Know what I mean?????
Irgendjemand wer nicht mit der Reichsfuehrer einverstanden ist, ausschlossen wirt werden!
Alles gut.
Danke schoen :o)