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From: Bo S
Category: Category 1
Date: 11 Aug 2002
Time: 15:08:07
Remote Name: 216.0.47.235
Dear Rob A,
A form came out in the recent NA Way bulletin which phrased it like this: 1) leave the Basic Text the way it is. (there was no elaboration on this, for instance, to emphasize that a very large, well informed Fellowship that had become used to writing and discussing literature then existed. To improve the Basic Text, a larger and better informed Fellowship would have to become accustomed to writing and discussing literature. Otherwise, a less informed group within today's Fellowship would be free to tamper with things they haven't been clean long enough to understand.) 2) To make these good sounding changes offering an array of challenging and exciting options that would leave all uninformed readers watering at the keyboard.
Anyone familiar with designing such forms would notice these things right off. So much for professionalism in a spiritual fellowship aka "Boy, I'm gonna get this on my resume!"
Of course anyone speaking up would have to be obtuse and UN-professional. Surely this form is somewhere on the web. If it is pushed through as a business matter, the NA Fellowship still has options like: don't buy a reduced or inferior form. Improved forms would theoretically be ok but sooner or later, we would have serious trouble with this. The track record of our WSO for changing literature has been awful. But since most of the trouble happened in the eighties, some will say, "Oh, nothing like that could happen today! Surely." And they will be wrong - again.
In Loving Service,
Bo S.