Founders of AA
Who were the 2 people that had met and had a conversation that resulted in the beginning of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith.
Please share on working with other alcoholics
What 2 Terms are used in the Big Book when talking about the personality change sufficient to bring about recovery from alcoholism?
Spiritual Experience and Spiritual Awakening.
Please share on this
In what step do we come to believe in?
In step 2 we come to believe that a power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity.
Please share your experience with step 2.
What is text of the book Alcoholics Anonymous also know as?
THE BIG BOOK
Please share about one of your favorite parts in the BIG BOOK.
Who is the most important person in the room?
Newcomer
What was it like when you were a newcomier.
Who showed up at Bill house in Bill Story to try to help him?
Ebby Thacher was an old drinking friend.
Please share about your drinking. Did you drink with friends, alone, in a large group or all of the above?
In choosing your own conception of God what is one important stipulation?
It must be a power greater than you.
In what step do we give it away in?
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Please share on step 12
What is the book that expands on the steps?
Twelve steps and Twelve Traditions.
Please share on what the most important step is to you.
What was one of your hiding places for Alcohol?
As long as you have one you are correct.
Pleas share why you hid Alcohol
What kind of doctor was Dr. Bob?
Proctologist (hinny Doctor)
Please share something that happened to you while drinking. (example someone passed out in a cornfield)
When a new person in AA gets it and is always in a great mood to the point that everyone notices they are said to be on what?
A pink cloud.
please share about a success you have had in aa. If you have not had one share on one you would like to have.
What is the first think you list in a Step 4 inventory according to the BIG BOOK?
Resentments.
Please share your experience with the 4 step. If you have nothing to share on it share about powerlessness.
What Book is about how Bill Wilson sees things.
As Bill sees it.
Please share on how the perception of life changes.
What sigh do you sometimes see in an AA meeting place hung upside down?
Think Think Think
Please share bout poor decision makin or good decision making or how it has improved.
What was the name of Bill Wilsons wife?
Lois Wilson. (She must have been a Saint)
Please share about relationships, how the are better or how you want them to get better.
The Person who is religiously devoted but sill cannot get sober. The 12 and 12 says the answer has to do with _____of faith rather than its quantity.
quality of faith rather than its quantity.
12 and 12 states Were entirely ready to have god remove these defects of character is a way of stating the best possible attitude one can take to make what?
a beginning of this lifetime job.
Please share on beginnings
Alcoholics Anonymous: Is the Story of How More Than how man people Have Recovered from Alcoholism?
100 people
Please share what your thoughts about what AA was prior to joining and how they have changed.
The great contradiction in AA is that you must what to keep it?
Give it away.
Share about how you first started in AA
Who as AA Number Three?
Bill D. Will also take the man in the bed.
Please share about Sponsorship.
One of the pertinent ideas in how it work is that god could and would if what?
He were sought.
Please share on you thoughts about seeking God.
What was the inspiration for the 12 steps?
Oxford Group 4 Absolutes-Honesty-Purity-unselfishness-Love.
Please share on practice not perfection of one of the absolutes.
What important opinion comes before Chapter 1 in the Big Book?
The Doctors Opinion
Please share on the mental spiritual or physical obsession's of alcohol addiction.
What is the AA code?
Love and tolerance.
Please share on either.