Opinions? We All Know…

What they’re like and the fact that everyone has one. Each of us is allowed to have them – it’s the way we’re all made. If/when I feel I’d like to disagree, I am able to and right now, I will…

Sorry Jason, with all due respect to your length of sober time I think your stance on an AA meeting becoming something other than an AA meeting at the moment something pre-determined not to be “conference approved” literature by human beings is read, is far from the soundness of mind I offer my gratitude to my God for.

If everyone got up and left the rooms of an AA meeting each time something other than “approved” actions occurred, none of us would ever make it to the “Our Father.” I’ll also repeat my original personal feelings about this nature of action. The person so obviously extracting themselves from a meeting is doing it with a personal agenda and that is called alcoholism because they’ve identified themselves as an alcoholic!

I have another personal thought related to the “permission” to get up and leave. Is it also okay for the same person to say nothing and maintain a resentment without attempting to refer the “offending” group to the Traditions or is it just simply okay to cop an attitude and “John Wayne” out of the meeting in order to make some kind of statement?

Intolerance! Page 103 – “A spirit of intolerance might repel alcoholics whose lives could have been saved, had it not been for such stupidity.”

Have you asked the “offended” person if they’re okay? Maybe, just perhaps, there is something else happening, for ex., they’re thinking of drinking? Did anyone consider this might be a possibility and leaving the meeting resulted from an “excuse.”

There are too many alternatives here to show intolerance and judgment – contempt prior to investigation.