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GoodOldTimers
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The GoodoldTimers is a relaxed forum for information, message boards and the JawJaw chat room for people recovering from addictions. Its main reference is threw the various fellowships. Its members have long and short terms of clean time. It is open to all people, all beliefs and does not take a stance for or against any viewpoint.
- Added on: Sep 22nd, 2007
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: Bleeding Deacon
- Listed in: Health Development and Growth
- Tags: alcoholism fellowship 12 step a.a
Recent Posts
It’s strange that Wilson lived worse sober than he did as a hopeless lush.
It’s strange that Wilson lived worse sober than he did as a hopeless lush. AA folklore casts his situation in a romantic light, using it to demonstrate that Wilson gave up everything for the cause, but this doesn’t fly. As a drunk, Wilson lived l...
initial meeting between Bill W. and cofounder Dr. Bob S. in 1935 in Akron was the single most important event in the 20th century
It is not entirely clear to me, one who has never had a drug or alcohol problem, why I entered the professional field of drug and alcohol counseling and have remained there for the past ten years. There are vivid memories of my grandfather, a rural, ...
Nothing changes,Thank God.early AA, at least on the West Coast, was full of raucous men and women bursting with the physical energy
Full disclosure: I grew up with a stepmom, Wynn, who had been fully prepared to marry Bill. He disengaged himself but put her "story" in the second edition of "Alcoholics Anonymous," in which the accounts of recovering alcoholics were included for th...
Bill Wilson just didn\'t want to be bothered with the hard work of resisting temptation.
Bill Wilson just didn't want to be bothered with the hard work of resisting temptation. Like so many other phony gurus, he lived a life of hypocritical irresolute self-indulgence, preaching "spirituality", "absolute purity", "rigorous honesty", and s...
"Founder\'s Watch" committee.
The impression that he was a ladies' man seems to have come from the way he sometimes behaved at AA gatherings. When Bill wasn't accompanied by Lois (or later, Helen), he could often be observed engaged in animated conversation with an attractive you...
Bill Wilson cheated on his wife Lois with many different women, both before and after sobriety.
Bill Wilson cheated on his wife Lois with many different women, both before and after sobriety. He even cheated on her while she worked in Loesser's department store to support him. "I'm going to a meeting" was often a double-entendre when Bill Wilso...
