GROWING IN UNDERSTANDING AND EFFECTIVENESS IS NOT AN OVERNIGHT MATTER. IT SHOULD CONTINUE FOR OUR LIFETIME. 84:2
In order 2 continue to grow in understanding of Historical events it is imperative to avoid Presentism. *
As it removes THE CONTEXT that is necessary to understand the past.
* Presentism, that tendency to interpret past events through the lens of current values and beliefs.
“[Lets] philosophize a little bit on the question of whether this program of ours is frozen as solid as an ice cube or whether there is any elasticity in it — whether we are going to get into the business of insisting upon conformity, whether we are going to get into the business of creating an authority that says that these Steps and Traditions have to be this way.” Bill Wilson 1953
Note: Thursday we have Jude for two readings
Who is the Big Book asking for maturity from…
Did you know that Varieties of Religious Experience more rational theology teems with New Thought.
We will look at the three original versions of “Bill’s Story” how that “Story” was edited.
What Bill Wilson said in 1969 about BANISHING EVIL SPIRITS and the symbol of our Society
The ‘new’ front cover for Bill Schaberg “Step Work Book”.
It will be published by Joe Chisholm’s Rebellion Dogs
Surely the iconic image of Parkhurst with a Halo is ironic or was done with ‘tongue in cheek….
A good story needs to be simple, straightforward, and dramatic.
Bill Wilson became a master at this.
