Myths, Urban Legends, And The Conference Approved Literature Parrot Debate

The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe  Alexander Solzhenitsyn

A.A. Conference Approved Myths

A Good Start on and Old Subject

By Dick B.

http://www.mauihistorian.blogspot.com

We begin with the following much-needed article from Pete’s Stuff.  It incorporates the long-ignored Box 459 article that GSO has told at least one seeker that it couldn’t find the material. If you want to see an excellent and much longer discussion of this subject, go to the Hindsfoot Foundation site where Professor Glenn Chesnut lays this entire Conference Approved problem in terms of its real importance.

I receive questions about this all the time; and people at conferences, Central Offices, and meetings are confronted with the “conference approved” nonsense with great frequency. Any AA can read anything any time anywhere for any purpose inside or outside of A.A. And that includes comic books and computer manuals. There is no Tradition that says otherwise. There is no Tradition that can or should or will censor or “censure” what is presented at a meeting, whether in discussion or by reading or by literature on a table. And if someone thinks he’s found the mythical tradition, tell him the fact and then tell him the Traditions are not laws.

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