My Ego My Higher Power And I

Subj: Re: Your review of Surprised By Truth Date: 2/28/02 3:19:44 PM Eastern Standard Time In a message dated 2/26/02 9:37:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, **********@snet. what have you) is different in kind from objects of knowledge or sense, such as a rock, etc. For me, record keeping is one of my most important DA recovery tools.
It took about three weeks before I got pretty much in the habit of keeping daily records. You are doing the exact things you accuse and condemn others of doing.

I think it is important enough to share at length on this vital DA tool. It is the foundation of my DA program, as far as day to day action is concerned. My problem also is with the terminology that makes one human equal to God in a way that no other human is.
Oddly enough, many protestants *know* what God wants, etc. Extremely difficult? No, it's impossible, so don't pretend that you have accomplished it. In early DA, I hardly looked at the records once I had done totals, I just forced myself to do them even when I wanted so badly to avoid it. . Revelations fall in the same category as the Koran and the Book of Mormon. It is extremely difficult to see existence as it really is without filtering it through our own ego. My objection also is to the claim that forgiveness requires blood vengeance inflicted upon an innocent savior acting as a scapegoat.

On occasion I may take a receipt instead but always record it into the daily record and then And at the end of every week I total the week up and enter the numbers into my work sheet, then throw the daily records away. Actually the real foundation of my DA program is my higher power, but I consider the DA tools as G-d-given. I mostly use the month just completed to do my plan for the next month, but sometimes I may look back over the last three months, or further back, depending on the category I'm planning for.

I cannot escape the obvious evidence for "it's" existence. You don't understand certain things, and so you reject them. But truth and clarity from record keeping can bring a bit of pain as I felt as if I were being dragged out of denial, and it hurt! I felt anger, fear, and shame, maybe some sadness too. Punishment of the innocent makes no sense, and the idea for its origin is based on even more ancient ideas of "scapegoats". , while the rest of us have to figure out the best way we can what the universe is all about.

I may see the effects of unplanned unforeseen expenses that caused financial strain. That's why agnostics are called that: "not knowing". Hosted food to eat for high cholesterol by Periwinkle Communications LLC Back to DA Writings Index Page.
,dj, Samantha, Cathy, Lynn, and Doug M. I find if I let weekly totaling slip after the end of a week it gets tougher to do it bus bus price services ticket with each passing day.
. Our human reason is feeble, but it's all we have. If "by their fruits shall you armed fbi preventive robbery tip know them" how can I be told that I cannot reject a purported God whose fruits are rotten? I too believe in a higher power. So I feel that my HP wants me to keep records.
Other than a belief in the unity of all consciousness, I don't see any solution to the puzzle. Perhaps "imaginer" would be better (or even "hallucinator"), as this higher being's thoughts are in fact the universe (perhaps one of many universes). But keeping daily records should be done at all times, regardless if one is totaling or not, just to stay in the habit.
. No later than the morning after. Truly amazing that certain knowledge conflicts with certain knowledge.

Of course the Muslims also *know* what God is like and what God wants, etc. If I ever fall behind in totaling daily records and have two, three, or four week's worth of un-totaled daily records, its usually better to throw them all away and start fresh at the start of a new month. Step 4 (Made a searching and fearless moral truth inventory of ourselves) is reflected by how good, clear records show my values with relation to money.

Faith is truly marvelous that way.

It might manifest in resistance. And I felt ashamed of the pain that was coming up, and the best thing I can say about dealing with the feelings that come up is to get through the shame, however one chooses to get through the shame, and my way was/is by talking about it at a meeting or to someone trusted. Why would "it" have created us if "it" had no intention of letting us know "it"? I don't know, but that's the way it seems to be. Some things are just common sense.
Christian claims are no more convincing than Islamic ones or Hindu ones or Jewish ones, etc.

If one does not apply one's own judgement, then there is no basis for accepting the Christian God. Especially if I've let a day or two elapse First, it helps to develop a list of expense categories that is meaningful and provides the needed clarity without being too complex. This is what Berkeley offered as a proof for God: as things remain in existence even when no human person is watching, it must be God maintaining those things. . Step 3 (Made a decision to turn my willthinking apparatus and my lifeactions over to the care and direction direction taken from Bill's original Big Book manuscript of G-d) is manifested by deciding to keep records despite the urge to resist and the action of doing it. Then, it took time (and humility, surrender, support, book-endingphoning someone before and after a shopping trip etc. As I had very little DA support in Toronto in '93, I found the Mundis book (Jerrold Mundis, How to Get Out of Debt, Stay Out of Debt, and Live Prosperously. Before going to bed or in the morning before leaving for work are times I find convenient. By keeping records I can, if I want, look back over the last few month's worksheets and know what areas I'm overspending in, and what my priorities and values are. A just judge does not grant america best contact and glasses clemency on a murderer only on condition that his own innocent son should suffer capital punishment.
That violates the meanings of the words "human" (a limited being) and "God" (an unlimitedexcept by logical consistencybeing).
Feel free to read it for your own inspiration, and for that I know how very easy it is to let record keeping slip. But how can one know if this being is unique? How does the being him/her/itself know about his/her/its origin? These are mysteries.
My problem is with those who claim to *know* the answers to all the mysteries of the universe, based on stories that bear so much resemblance to myths that they themselves reject. One has to find a method that works for them. " ) and also do a plan (and at least try to follow it!) at the beginning of each month. Clemency ought to be granted or denied on its own merits. I think it is already have might this very important to do whatever is necessary to get in the habit of keeping good, clear, consistent records. Bantam books) very helpful when developing my category list. Subj: Re: Your review of Surprised By Truth Date: 3/2/02 5:15:05 PM Eastern Standard Time In a message dated 2/28/02 11:06:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, **********@snet.