Episode #50 (Season 12) - "The Original Message is Reversed"

So Bill Wilson, one of the founders of AA was in the Mayflower hotel and he wanted to drink and he had been sober for six months.

And the insanity of the first drink returned.

And he said to himself, eh, maybe I can handle like three drinks.

And then what happened to me is so important to understand.

I don't know how the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous got so far away from this.

And I love AA.

I go to a lot of meetings.

I love AA meetings.

And AA does not need me to love AA meetings, by the way.

AA will be just fine, regardless of how I feel about AA.

AA doesn't need my help.

But I'm just saying.

I go to meetings, and I love meetings.

And also, it's true that I don't know how Alcoholics Anonymous got so far away from this because it is, in my understanding of that big book, paramount in its importance and its value in terms of just living the way of life designed in the big book of Alcoholics Anonymous.

So he wanted a drink.

The insanity of alcohol returned.

contemplated it.

And then what happened is he got out of himself.

He stopped thinking about himself and he started to think about other people.

He didn't call somebody so he could talk about himself.

And for some reason, this is just the norm now, but we're all here because Bill did the opposite of that.

Okay.