Please help me think this through...

[Michael Herman]

i recently heard a woman from south africa speak about their process.
as far as i can tell, it was all individuals voluntarily speaking to
individuals, not individuals speaking to/for groups.  so the question
that comes to mind for me now is "what did you do or not do, doug, that
you could take responsibility for now?  and then who would you speak
that to?"  if we lose the personal scale, we also lose the
passion+responsibility scale and end up with anonymous groups speaking
to anonymous groups and that leaves no basis for "i will now do this...
" in response to any truth or review.  m



Glory Ressler wrote:

>Doug:
>Your post also made me think of the 12 Step Tradition (AA, Al-Anon, Adult
>Children of Alcoholics) which I was steeped in as a 'young' woman. Steps 4,
>5, 8, 9 and 10 are particularly relevant to your ruminations, I think. See
>the complete list below...
>Glory :-)
>
>The Twelve Steps Of Alcoholics Anonymous
>
>  1.. We admitted we were powerless - that our lives had become
>unmanageable.
>  2.. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us
>to sanity.
>  3.. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God
>as we understood Him.
>  4.. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
>  5.. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact
>nature of our wrongs.
>  6.. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
>  7.. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
>  8.. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make
>amends to them all.
>  9.. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do
>so would injure them or others.
>  10.. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly
>admitted it.
>  11.. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact
>with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for
>us and the power to carry that out.
>  12.. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we
>tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in
>all our affairs.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Douglas D. Germann, Sr." <76066.515 at compuserve.com>
>To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
>Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 11:24 AM
>Subject: Please help me think this through...
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>>To my good friends--
>>
>>Would you be so kind as to help me think this through?
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