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Old Dec 19, 2016, 04:00 PM
leejosepho leejosepho is offline
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I disagree with your contention that, "...directions can only be found in "A.A.", the book."
If you wish, I would gladly take a look at whatever else to see for myself...and I would quickly admit to being wrong if that is a fact. However, the various workbooks and such I have ever seen so far have at best only ever been supplementary (also typically missing at least one mark or another) and never stand-alone sources, and even the A.A. 12&12 has no actual directions for taking any of the Steps.

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Pet peeve here...In Michigan there are so many people at meetings who are there with a "nudge from the judge." Once they're off probation you never see many of them again. There are a lot of people who have to rack up a lot of D.U.I.'s before getting even a hint that they might have a problem.
While our group was still meeting face-to-face, we typically signed the attendance slips at the beginnings of meetings and told people we were doing so because we are neither officers nor an extension of the court and would never support anyone being forced to attend.
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