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Outdoor Face-to-Face Meeting on Mondays at Noon
Open air meeting, bring your own chair and coffee! |
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Zoom Meeting - Safe at Home - Zoom Meeting
The 'Safe at Home' meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous meets on-line 7 days a week at noon and 5:30 pm,
Meeting ID: 321 698 7537
Password: 123 |
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Wewahitchka Serenity
Zoom Meeting |
Monday and Wednesday, 6pm
Meeting ID: 146939670
No Password needed for either meeting |
Can also be accessed by calling: 1-646-558-8656, id #146939670 |
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Mexico Beach
Surfside Serenity
Zoom Meeting |
Friday at 6pm CST
Meeting ID: 146939670
No Password needed |
Can also be accessed by calling: 1-646-558-8656, id #146939670 |
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Significant January Dates in AA History |
Jan 3, 1939 - First sale of Works Publishing Co stock is recorded. |
Jan 8, 1938 - New York AA splits from the Oxford Group. |
Jan 10, 1940 - 1st AA meeting not in a home meets at King School, Akron, Ohio. |
Jan 15, 1937 - Fitz M brings AA meetings to Washington DC. |
Jan 21, 1954 - Hank P, who helped Bill start NY office, dies in Pennington, New Jersey. |
Jan 24, 1918 - Bill marries Lois Burnham in the Swedenborgen Church in Brooklyn Heights. |
Jan. 24, 1971 - Bill W dies at Miami Beach, FL. |
Jan 25, 1915 - Dr. Bob marries Anne Ripley. |
Jan 26,1971 - N.Y. Times publishes Bill's obituary on page 1. |
End of Jan 1939 - 400 copies of manuscript of Big Book circulated for comment, evaluation and sale. |
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Speaker Meeting
Live at The Trailer
The Trailer [aka Serenity House ☺] has a new Speaker Meeting
every first Saturday of the month at 5:30 pm.
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New Meeting - Bayou George Group - New Meeting
There is a new meeting in town on Tuesday, 7:00 pm, at the Bayou George First Baptist Church, 6227 Hwy 2301, Panama City, FL
Please come out and support our newest meeting!
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New Spanish Speaking Meeting
New Spanish speaking meeting at the CAYA Club, Wednesday and Saturday, 8:30-10:00pm.
CAYA Club, 8317 Front Beach Rd, Panama City Beach, FL
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More About Alcoholism
MOST OF us have been unwilling to admit we were real alcoholics. No person likes to think he is bodily and mentally different from his fellows. Therefore, it is not surprising that our drinking careers have been characterized by countless vain attempts to prove we could drink like other people. The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker. The persistence of this illusion is astonishing. Many pursue it into the gates of insanity or death.
We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery. The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashed.
We alcoholics are men and women who have lost the ability to control our drinking. We know that no real alcoholic ever recovers control. All of us felt at times that we were regaining control, but such intervals—usually brief—were inevitably followedby still less control, which led in time to pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization. We are convinced to a man that alcoholics of our type are in the grip of a progressive illness. Over any considerable period we get worse, never better.
We are like men who have lost their legs; they never grow new ones. Neither does there appear to be any kind of treatment which will make alcoholics of our kind like other men. We have tried every imaginable remedy. In some instances there has been brief recovery, followed always by a still worse relapse. Physicians who are familiar with alcoholism agree there is no such thing as making a normal drinker out of an alcoholic. Science may one day accomplish this, but it hasn’t done so yet.
Despite all we can say, many who are real alcoholics are not going to believe they are in that class. By every form of self-deception and experimentation, they will try to prove themselves exceptions to the rule, therefore nonalcoholic. If anyone who is showing inability to control his drinking can do the right- about-face and drink like a gentleman, our hats are off to him. Heaven knows, we have tried hard enough and long enough to drink like other people!
Here are some of the methods we have tried: Drinking beer only, limiting the number of drinks, never drinking alone, never drinking in the morning, drinking only at home, never having it in the house, never drinking during business hours, drinking only at parties, switching from scotch to brandy, drinking only natural wines, agreeing to resign if ever drunk on the job, taking a trip, not taking a trip, swearing off forever (with and without a solemn oath), taking more physical exercise, reading inspirational books, going to health farms and sanitariums, accepting voluntary commitment to asylums—we could increase the list ad infinitum.
p.30-31, Alcoholics Anonymous, Reprinted with permission of AA World Services
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