Re: Big Book Authors' Success?

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--- no_never_met_him@... wrote:

> Hello,

>

> I once heard that 50% of the authors of the pesonal

> stories in the

> book " Alcoholics Anonymous " died drunk.

>

> Or maybe that figure was actually that 50% of the

> touted first 100

> members of AA died drunk.

>

> Can anyone on the list confirm this and refer me to

> some reliable

> source for this information?

>

> On a related note, someone once told me that the

> reason some stories

> in the Big Book have been removed in newer editions

> is that those

> authors had not remained sober. Can anyone confirm

> this?

>

> Thanks again,

>

>

That wouldn't surprise me.

I know of a couple.

there is " The First Woman to become sober in A.A. " .

Marty Mann was not

the first woman to become sober in A.A. She was

the first to stay sober. The first

woman to become sober was Florence R., who wrote

the Big Book chapter A

Feminine Victory, which appeared in the first

edition. Unfortunately, the Twelve

Steps didn't work for her, either, for very

long, and she relapsed, and was gone.

So her story was silently removed from the

second edition of the Big Book in

1955, and A.A. started yammering a new party

line about how Marty Mann was

the first woman to achieve sobriety in A.A..

This " revisionist history " routine is just

totally typical of A.A.. They have no respect

for the truth, and change history

whenever and however it suits them.

See:

http://www.geocities.com/ageorange/orange-cult.html#woman_stay

And then there was Parkhurst, the author

of the chapter " to Employers " , whom Bill

drove out of A.A.

see:

http://www.geocities.com/ageorange/orange-aacoa.html

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