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From: [email protected]
Category: Category 1
Date: 22 Feb 1999
Time: 13:07:48
Remote Name: ip70.atlanta14.ga.pub-ip.psi.net
Anonymity was originally to protect persons entering recovery from social stigma. This could affect them adversly and was seen as protective of recovery. In time, anonymity becomes associated with the miracle of God's grace for giving us a way out. Also, in our not taking credit for God's miracle.
bother means you haven't processed something fully, or that you have and disapprove. Since this is a protected 'recovery' zone, we don't worry too much about someone coming here to track down someone. We don't even check to see if they use their real names or not. It is just a way to check back with them if we need something. Like a handle. It is not threatening their recovery or taking credit for God's miracle. So, that subject may be closed. Now, the other subject is someone entering a 'recovery zone' and telling someone to shut up, they have made a mistake. Now, that is interesting. What I think happens is that we get to a point in recovery where we have reached the limits of what we can process, think through or deal with and then anything else seems forbidding or threatening. We are grateful for both inputs: 1) the one dealing with recovery and the impulse to improve ourselves and 2) the one that attempts to place boundaries on our freedoms within a Fellowship setting.
Just as our meetings may be invaded by outsiders and we would treat the invader just as well as a 'legitimate' addict seeking recovery, we will try to accept and try to utilize both inputs.
In Loving Recovery,
Bo S.