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FW: [AAHistoryLovers] Big Book Incongruity, correction

Richard Tompkins All Messages By This Member #8 开云体育 ? I have a clarification to make: AA’s founding is universally agreed as Bill’s enduringly successful outreach to Bob in June 1935 ~~after Bob’s last drinking episode.~~ It was that meeting on a Sunday afternoon that mattered: the outreach--- even when Bob had his final drunken adventure a few weeks after it. The ‘seed was planted and it took root’ as it has been repeated millions of times since then. We still argue about the exact date of that month, too, but our success began with that watershed event. Yours in fellowship and serenity, Rick, Illinois ? toggle quoted message Show quoted text From: AAHistoryLovers@... <AAHistoryLovers@...> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2020 9:55 AM To: AAHistoryLovers@... Subject: Re: [AAHistoryLovers] Big Book Incongruity There is no inaccuracy, and there was no editing. It wasn't necessary. Bill was a patient at Towns 4 times, the first in 1933, 6 years before the penning of Bill's Story. If it had been written in 1939, that one "of our number" won the Heisman Trophy in 1931, are you folks REALLY saying that the statement would be inaccurate because the footballer wasn't an AA member in 1931? The Big Book is dead-on accurate on this. Bob K. On Sunday, January 5, 2020, 02:34:16 p.m. EST, jscinca@... [AAHistoryLovers] <aahistorylovers@...> wrote: I agree completely...the messages?in our basic?text were edited and refined to suit the needs of the author , who desperately wanted to help alcoholics.. On?Sunday, January 5, 2020,?jack spano zoose0805@... [AAHistoryLovers]?<AAHistoryLovers@...>?wrote: ?Bill was not always 100% accurate with days and stories. He would adjust to make his point. He didn’t know 81 years later people would challenge every sentence.? I love AA. ? On Jan 5, 2020, at 11:25 AM, David M Daugherty dmd42bluz@... [AAHistoryLovers] <AAHistoryLovers@...> wrote: True, simply put, you could be considered one of us in retrospect even before some event - such as Bill and Bob meeting - became widely considered "the birth of AA".Nice for an anniversary date, but not IMHO exactly the beginnings of our fellowship. David D On January 4, 2020, at 8:46 PM, "Bob K gurubob65@... [AAHistoryLovers]" <AAHistoryLovers@...> wrote: Bill Wilson was in Towns Hospital the first time in 1933. 1939-1933 = 6 years. Bob K. On Sunday, October 30, 2016, 04:28:29 p.m. EDT, 'Tom Pasek' tp@... [AAHistoryLovers] <aahistorylovers@...> wrote: The second line from the top of page 162 of The Big Book states "Six years ago one of our number was a patient there." Then talking about the doctor, it goes on to say "We are greatly indebted to the doctor in attendance there, for he, although it might prejudice his own work, has told us of his belief in ours." The book was published in 1939. Bill and Bob didn't meet until 1935. If this paragraph was written as late as 1939, that means that "one of our number" was in that hospital in 1933 - two full years before the birth of AA. Can someone explain this apparent conflict? Logo Committee 3 Tom Pasek, President Bakersfield National Cemetery Support Committee P O Box 12377 Bakersfield, CA 93389 661.379.7363 Posted by: Bob K <gurubob65@...> . __,_._,___

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