tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181024902947380214.post7206269932559636619..comments2023-09-16T05:02:33.288-06:00Comments on McGowdoghouse: Another ViewMcGowdoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16866948381728741656noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181024902947380214.post-75976046418032158182011-09-02T20:17:55.486-06:002011-09-02T20:17:55.486-06:00If you ain't one of us, you ain't real. Or...If you ain't one of us, you ain't real. Or, as the song goes, "There's no one left but me and thee, and I'm not sure of thee."joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16266375123411463390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181024902947380214.post-12082120645719175642011-09-02T06:20:29.607-06:002011-09-02T06:20:29.607-06:00She likes math, in AA we've surrendered to the...She likes math, in AA we've surrendered to the master mathematician. She finds the universe <i>“fascinating, but wondrous, awe-inspiring, and humbling",</i> only a mind conscious of values can experience such an observation. Self clamors for recognition and autonomy but alludes it's own logic when it simultaneously transcends the material by making value judgments while claiming the material is all there is. <br /><br />The moon doesn’t look at the earth or a crab nebula and find it amazing, only a mind conscious of values finds any appeal in contrasting the beautiful with the ugly. Truth is such when contrasted with error, good with evil.<br /><br /><i>“……materialism, atheism, is the maximation of ugliness, the climax of the finite antithesis of the beautiful.” UB 1955</i><br /><br /><br />ColterColterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17394584466042799024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181024902947380214.post-6939730186918396732011-08-29T23:18:15.521-06:002011-08-29T23:18:15.521-06:00Not that I don't like it... I just don't l...Not that I don't like it... I just don't like it crammed anywhere by anybody else.McGowdoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16866948381728741656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181024902947380214.post-85647369022260821852011-08-29T20:04:06.149-06:002011-08-29T20:04:06.149-06:00I like it. If this woman elects to break her anony...I like it. If this woman elects to break her anonymity that's her choice. She doesn't claim to speak for AA, only as a member who has balanced her beliefs of a higher power with those espoused by the Big Book. <br /><br />She comes across as a pretty honest person, and I'd guess that she has some decent sobriety.<br /><br />Like Patrick, I don't like the Blood of Christ stuff either, and that may have caused me to walk out of my first meeting, too.joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16266375123411463390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181024902947380214.post-91541435524380672372011-08-29T19:40:41.370-06:002011-08-29T19:40:41.370-06:00I like this even though It's thought provoking...I like this even though It's thought provoking as well.<br /><br />Setting aside the traditions violations for a second... I think It's equally wrong to go spouting a Blood of Christ speech in an A.A. meeting as well.<br /><br />Until Jesus comes down and tells us to put His name in the steps, we ought to afford Him His anonymity too.<br /><br />Now, I'm not always in the mood for some blowhard atheist to go spouting off, but this isn't your God killed my puppy-dog atheist either. This person just don't believe in no deity. Fine.<br /><br />Is like to bring this person along with me next time some nominal Christian fundie-wanna be comes a preachin at me.McGowdoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16866948381728741656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3181024902947380214.post-5865050545233627182011-08-29T16:50:38.793-06:002011-08-29T16:50:38.793-06:00I love shit like this, so much for anonymity. Anot...I love shit like this, so much for anonymity. Another big shot who knows more than the traditions, terrific.............Rob Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13051571565294672514noreply@blogger.com