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Bob D is such an amazing speaker! Love his Big Book studies..
thanks
good speaker – however that whole AA slogan of “No justifiable resentments”
is why people view the program as messed up. Try telling families of
Holocaust victims, families of Columbine Shooting Victims, Newtown shooting
victims etc. that there are no justifiable resentments.
In this talk, I think Bob is talking about more interpersonal resentments
rather than horrific tragedies. However, I will say, forgiveness is very
powerful. The instances you mentioned are insanely horrendous, but in each
and every case, there are certain individuals who have indeed forgiven the
perpetrators and have allowed Love to win, thus allowing its powerful
healing to resonate within themselves. One of our speakers, Ed M., talks
about forgiving the murderer of his father in his tape.
I get what you are saying though, and luckily, that “slogan” appears
nowhere in the Big Book, or any AA literature. So it is merely the opinion
of the speaker. Thanks for listening and Namaste
This is in response to what John Anthony stated below. First and foremost,
our AA literature talks about that even “justifiable anger” is better left
to those more qualified than the alcoholic. That because of our vast
perception issues and our ability to form a resentment out of almost
anything, we should avoid getting angry, because for us, the business of
resentments is infinitely grave. We as alcoholics need to be able to let
things go that may cause us to drink. A forgiving spirit, if you will.
What strikes me about your post John is that you assume that AA needs to
have an answer for mass tragedies and death. AA has no opinion on outside
issues, and does not wish to engage in any controversies. We deal with
resentments 1 sponsee at a time, and for those sponsees who have dealt with
loss, the only thing we try to convey is that walking around with a deep
resentment for the alcoholic means to die. And if the original resentment
is that someone was taken from someone by violence or senseless crime,
there is no point in the surviving party drinking themselves to death also.
If they are in AA, and they are sitting across from me, and they don’t want
to drink and they don’t want to die, they may have to *be willing* to look
at the world from another angle, and see that maybe those who perpetrated
such crimes were also sick themselves.
It is from this new angle that we approach life, as we try to pull another
sick alcoholic back from the brink of destruction. Please understand that.
Thank you made me look at myself. Peace!
Perfectly said!