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"Ken" <user@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:e85e2$44e8f7f4$4396fd13$7753@DIALUPUSA.NET...
> Hello All,
>
> I think it rather useless to respond much to Stuart or Been There. Even
> when proven wrong, rather than admit it, they go on a personal attack. It
> is much more productive to post brief excerpts from AA conference-approved
> (official) literature. Here is an the account of the dishonesty AA members
> including Bill Wilson engaged in to promote AA and to sell the Big Book
> shortly after it was published:
>
> “[S]omebody sounded a note of caution: What if the lately released asylum
> inmate Morgan should be drunk the day of the broadcast! Hard experience
> told us this was a real possibility. How could such a calamity be averted?
>
> Very gently we suggested to a resentful Morgan that he would have to be
> locked up somewhere until the night of the broadcast. It took all of
> salesman Henry's wiles to put this one over, but he did. How and where we
> would lock him up was the only remaining question. Henry, with full faith
> now restored, solemnly declared that ‘God would provide.’ ...Grumbling
> loudly, Morgan was conducted into captivity. For several days we took
> turns staying with him right around the clock, never letting him get out
> of our sight . . .
>
> Sighs of relief went up in every New York member's home when Morgan's
> voice was heard. He had hit the deadline without getting drunk. It was a
> heart-stirring three minutes.”
>
> [from pp. 174-175 AA 1957, Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age. New York:
> Alcoholics Anonymous World Services AA 1976, Alcoholics Anonymous. New
> York: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services]
>
> What Morgan told of in the radio broadcast was of the recovery he had
> found in AA.
>
> [(1984):209-210 AA 1984, Pass It On. New York: Alcoholics Anonymous World
> Services]
>
> What the AA literature makes very clear is they put someone on the air to
> promote and praise AA that they were so afraid would go on a bender that
> they had to lock him up beforehand. That is the reason for "Anonymity at
> the media level," so members can publicly promote AA (even lie through
> their teeth) and when they go on a bender or commit suicide days or weeks
> later, the public doesn't know about it.
>
> Ken Ragge
> http://www.morerevealed.com
Good to see you posting, Ken! Really!
I used to feel like a lot of the people in here seem to feel about you and
your informaton that you post. I believe I may have even called you a few
choice words back when. I am sorry if I did. In all, I have never seen you
get nasty, accuse, or call people names when discussing your opinion or
belief. I admire that. Hope you stick around.
Gail
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