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Re: Happy 24th Anniversary AAHL!
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They are trying to change the big book the 12 x12
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And other founders books I am ? gsr at a conference and we are discussing all these negative changes. Better get involved! [Moderator comment: I approved this message so that I could add this comment. AA History Lovers is not an activist group. We are a research group and we try to stay in the center as much as possible on every issue. We are also not, and I must make this clear, we are NOT an AA group! What people do on their own time is their business and not the business of AA History Lovers. There are no requirements for membership other than to agree to do what we do. We collect, store, archive, share, brainstorm, research, and even discuss the history of alcoholics anonymous and anything even remotely related to it. That is our primary purpose and that is what I'm sworn as moderator to uphold in my decision making when it comes to content shared here. I am trying to keep the legacy of the past curators of this group as intact as possible while also allowing for growth in this new digital age (hence the Facebook platform that is currently just shy of 39,000 members. Glenn told me that I was crazy for trying to do AAHL on social media and he's right--but it seems to be working anyway lol. I assured him that in no way will the classic AAHL (this) go away. When I explained to him that the social media version is an experiment and even if it comes of age it's never going to replace this, he gave his blessing. He told me it's my ship to steer now and if I want to run it into an iceberg that's my business, haha! So what is this platform over here, "AAHL Classic"? Well, this is the place you go when you want to ask a hardcore question to a bunch of hardcore researchers. Don't be fooled by the low traffic. It's dense with information here. We're extremely careful with what we allow through the system and make sure that everything is as vetted as possible. Only in special cases like this do we relax the restrictions in order to celebrate, mourn, discuss something really important that might come up or explain things like this once in a long long while.? I just had to say all that because it needed to be said. I'm sure everyone in this group has an opinion on what's going on in AA right now. Some of that is relevant to share here and in fact I'm gearing up to share some of it in the fairly near future. But it's going to be in a nonpartisan context. I must make that clear. Our mission is to share the information regardless of how we feel about it. It's also our collective goal to try to keep our opinions to ourselves and to approach this group in the spirit of research sharing with which it's intended. In other words, we must leave our prejudices outside even if we all might agree, even if we all have the same one. The data we're collecting is just too important and I think it's because of this that we're the strongest, longest surviving and largest AA history group that does this on the internet (that we know of).? Sorry for the long explanation but it's an important one. Glenn stressed these things to me when he was turning it over to me and I've been trying to uphold it and I need to explain that. So, Sharon, I want you to know that you did nothing wrong by trying to share what you did. But on a normal day I would have had to moderate this post and I would have emailed you explaining this to you. But I thought since it hasn't been said in a while, I needed to say it to everyone-- especially with the, yes, pretty interesting stuff going on right now. But in the meantime, while all of that plays out, we're going to stick with our primary purpose and focus on what we're all about: documenting the history of AA. I don't think we could handle any other rabbit holes as a group. There's so much to cover even going back hundreds of years leading up to this incredible movement. So we got to try to keep it simple because there's nothing simple about this history already. ? Okay rant over. ? Thank you so much for being a member of this group! You are very much appreciated. All the best, --Thom R. AAHL Moderator] ?
On Mar 16, 2024, at 4:52?PM, Thom R. <thomr021092@...> wrote:
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