On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 06:39 PM, Thom R. wrote:
Here's one gross example of something being changed in a forward, the Forward
to the 4th Edition, last paragraph, that happened after the third printing of
that edition.
And for the life of me, I can't find any conference action that approved that
change, it seems that someone took it upon themselves to do it without even
asking the conference, without asking the groups or even asking the areas what
they thought of the change. This change was, no evidence to prove otherwise,
made behind closed doors and in secret. And what's worse is that nobody has
tried to fix it since.
Quoting from p. 93 of Advisory Actions of the General Service Conference of Alcoholics Anonymous 1951-2022 (), under the section "Advisory Actions Relevant to the Conference Literature Committee":
2002 It was recommended that:¡ Although the committee acknowledged the importance of electronic meetings to some A.A. members, the sentence "Fundamentally, though, the difference between an electronic meeting and the home group around the corner is only one of format," be deleted in future printings of the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous.
The same identically-worded recommendation appears on p. 9 in The Fifty-Second Annual Meeting of the General Service Conference of Alcoholics Anonymous: 2002, Final Report under Conference Advisory Actions, LITERATURE, item # 18.
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