Beginning on page 43 in AA’s 12&12;

“We have also seen men and women who go power-mad, who devote themselves to attempting to rule their fellows.”

For ex. - this comment.

Forward to pg. 44 - “Whenever a human being becomes a battleground for the instincts, there can be no peace.”

In response to a post where I’m disagreeing with the concept of “Meeting Makers Make It” someone takes the time, lacking any communication, to immediately make a defamatory remark about “not working the program of action” to another human being, knowing nothing at all about that person and going to length to belittle the word “recovering” which isn’t mentioned in the post at all. What does this tell me? I can’t say for certain, but the guess is that the commenter is reading the right blog.

“Every time a person imposes his instincts unreasonably upon others, unhappiness follows.”

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Today’s Daily Reflection…

Equality

To me, this could be one of the Top Ten ideals/principles we can strive for. Shamefully, there are folks who, imho, differ and differ out loud and irrationally. Consider;

“Our membership ought to include all who suffer from alcoholism. Hence we may refuse none who wish to recover. Nor ought A.A. membership ever depend upon money or conformity.”

Conformity eh? What does that mean? To me that means that those who would judge me less than a real alcoholic because I say I’m recoverin(g) instead of recovere(d) - can go to he**! I have no requirement to conform to your controlling insanity of perfection!

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Oooh… how I would love to make this a political post… but… no, that won’t happen, so, no worry eh? LOL

This comes from the Daily Reflection for today for Alcoholics Anonymous.

What? No President?

Derived from page 132 in the 12&12;

“When told that our Society has no president having authority to govern it, no treasurer who can compel the payment of any dues, no board of directors who can cast an erring member into outer darkness, when indeed no A.A. can give another a directive and enforce obedience, our friends gasp and exclaim, ‘This simply can’t be. There must be an angle somewhere.’ These practical folk then read Tradition Two, and learn that the sole authority in A.A. is a loving God as He may express Himself in the group conscience.”

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