Temptation...
...is something we need to avoid! I was recently reminded that we are not immune to Temptation just because we are in AA. In Fact we are powerless over Temptation and will give in to it if we are...
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MAX- I understand your thoughts and frustrations-I have learned over time that "What ever I put ahead of my Recovery or Sobriety I will lose". I put my business ahead of my recovery and lost it-I put...
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Max , I'd return that mind reading helmet if I were you...it doesnt work very well. Hopefully you will take that comment as humor, because I don't know enough about you to know what ya do and dont see...
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Hi Max, There is no "spiritual side of the program". The program consists of "Twelve Steps [which] are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel...
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Allright Ifind that I've bullshitted a lot here. I see God as a seperate part of the program because even though the program brings me closer to god and god the program. I don't have the relationship...
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I'd like to know who quit the site and I hope it was not because of something I said. I should have warned you guys that I eventually wind up with my foot in my mouth if I talk enough.
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Alcohol is but a symptom - like the book says. And I dunno who terminated their membership - tho I doubt that it had anything to do with you or me.
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What I meant by the spiritual side is that. I am again on a quest to find god. What he is, who he is, and what he wants of me. The Non-spiritual side is the pshycological side. Remember AA is a bit of...
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Max --- try reading the Chapter to the agnostics a few times - it may help you with your quest.
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"What I meant by the spiritual side is that. I am again on a quest to find god. What he is, who he is, and what he wants of me." News flash---God ain't lost. If we ever find out who, where, what, etc....
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I am sorry but I don't see psychology as a head game. I understand that religious people don't like it for that reason but that's psychological warfare not the psychology intended to help the sick and...
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For me Step 3 - Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understand Him. For me this was a difficult Step because I was trying to define God in black and white...
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I had to do another bar thing. What I mean is that the guys at work were taking a guy out who had worked with them for years. He was leaving to go to another company. I dutifilly asked god to be with...
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"I am sorry but I don't see psychology as a head game." Neither do I. What i see as head games are the ways you find to complicate a simple program. Jim S.
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I learned today that Attaction can become temptation then addiction. If you thik of it like a magnet or having gravity like Jameson does.
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Atention can even be attraction, temptation, frustration explosion, and addiction. Sounds like a magical spell don't it.
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"( Temptation)...is something we need to avoid! I was recently reminded that we are not immune to Temptation just because we are in AA." True only if your alcoholism is untreated--if you are in the...
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