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- Sun Dec 27, 2020 8:01 pm
- Forum: A.A. Birthdays!
- Topic: 5Years
- Replies: 4
- Views: 131
Re: 5Years
Good job
- Sun Dec 27, 2020 8:00 pm
- Forum: A.A. Birthdays!
- Topic: 40 years
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7385
Re: 40 years
Good job Db
- Fri Dec 18, 2020 8:06 pm
- Forum: Discussions
- Topic: Speaker tapes
- Replies: 50
- Views: 1459
- Thu Dec 17, 2020 12:36 pm
- Forum: Discussions
- Topic: Speaker tapes
- Replies: 50
- Views: 1459
Re: Speaker tapes
Waking Up is freely available on youtube.I depend on the pirate bay for a lot of movie and tv entertainment downloads, and books like these are also available there
- Thu Dec 17, 2020 8:30 am
- Forum: Discussions
- Topic: Speaker tapes
- Replies: 50
- Views: 1459
Re: Speaker tapes
The book "Waking Up" by Sam Harris is a good explanation of the quieter consciousness beyond default mode network. Harris is a neuroscientist and atheist. Tapping in to that quiet consciousness is very helpful.
- Mon Dec 14, 2020 8:04 pm
- Forum: Discussions
- Topic: "Little" Stuff Sober People Do
- Replies: 12
- Views: 473
Re: "Little" Stuff Sober People Do
Go to work every day.
Clean the AA hall early on Saturday morning.
Empty ash trays even though I don't smoke.
Help people move.
Buy cards for people when they celebrate their anniversaries.
Hang out at the AA hall on Saturday night and watch old men play cards and smoke.
Answer the phone.
etc.
Clean the AA hall early on Saturday morning.
Empty ash trays even though I don't smoke.
Help people move.
Buy cards for people when they celebrate their anniversaries.
Hang out at the AA hall on Saturday night and watch old men play cards and smoke.
Answer the phone.
etc.
- Mon Dec 07, 2020 1:57 pm
- Forum: If It Doesn't Fit Anywhere Else
- Topic: Addiction Paper
- Replies: 5
- Views: 200
Re: Addiction Paper
I had never heard of epigenetics until I did this research. I was astonished and also saw how it affects me.
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 4:50 pm
- Forum: If It Doesn't Fit Anywhere Else
- Topic: Addiction Paper
- Replies: 5
- Views: 200
Addiction Paper
I wrote a paper on addiction for an English class. I did a lot of research for it and learned a lot. I have copied it here in case anyone is interested: Addiction: Disease not Choice “…addiction … an attempt to shed my existential burden instead of carrying out the struggle…” (12 Rules for Life 323)...
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 4:46 pm
- Forum: Discussions
- Topic: Speaker tapes
- Replies: 50
- Views: 1459
Re: Speaker tapes
Leaving aside speaker tapes: it is possible to believe in your own higher consciousness without believing in god. The hard question not answered by philosophers or neuroscientists is who or what is consciousness. The part of the brain which is addicted to substances is more like the default mode net...
- Sat Dec 05, 2020 6:40 pm
- Forum: For the Newcomer
- Topic: Help with where to start.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 407
Re: Help with where to start.
Online meetings all over the world: https://aa-intergroup.org/oiaa/meetings/
- Sat Dec 05, 2020 6:37 pm
- Forum: For the Newcomer
- Topic: New to the Forum
- Replies: 7
- Views: 294
Re: New to the Forum
Welcome to the club. Everyone feels like that at first. You are not special.I don’t want to be here, and I feel ashamed even though it’s anonymous.
I love AA. My life is so incredibly much better. Especially, emotions are better.
- Sun Nov 08, 2020 3:37 pm
- Forum: For the Newcomer
- Topic: Getting sober during Covid-19
- Replies: 6
- Views: 273
Re: Getting sober during Covid-19
Nice. Good job.
- Sun Nov 01, 2020 6:41 pm
- Forum: The 12 Steps
- Topic: Help me to understand!
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1020
- Sun Nov 01, 2020 6:39 pm
- Forum: Discussions
- Topic: Sponsor advice
- Replies: 9
- Views: 354
Re: Sponsor advice
You said that you have problems at work and now your sponsor works there. Have you been honest with your sponsor about work in the past (pre-covid)? Will they see how things really are as opposed to what you've said? What are you afraid of besides anonymity?
- Fri Oct 30, 2020 5:45 am
- Forum: A.A. Birthdays!
- Topic: 15 Years Sober
- Replies: 5
- Views: 242
Re: 15 Years Sober
Congrats