Topic: Came to Believe - Bob D

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🗓️ 19 July 2024

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Bob D is sharing on the topic of "Came to Believe" is from April of 2006 he was 27 years sober at the time of this speak. The second half is mostly Q & A on the topic. I just added 1 new event to the event list. The 35th Annual 35th Annual Mackinac Island Fall Weekend Oct 6-9. Details: https://scast.us/mac Coming up this month: The Washington State Conference for Young People in AA - WSCYPAA VII. In Tacoma WA. July 26-28. Details: https://scast.us/wscypaa7 The 32nd Annual Fellowship of Spirit Conference in Estes Park Colarado July 25-28. Details: https://scast.us/fotsco If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/event Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? List the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2600+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

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0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:24.7	Chris asked me to do a workshop on something.
0:31.5	I don't know that, I'm not sure if I've ever done a workshop just
0:34.1	on this alone, on how I came to believe my struggles in coming to believe and connect, I guess, eventually with a power grade
0:43.6	than myself. And I started thinking about it and I struggled a lot with this.
0:51.4	I remember coming into treatment centers that would take me to
0:59.8	a meeting and I'm desperate and I feel like I'm dying and I would listen to people share and I kind of get
1:08.9	with them. I start to identify with some things and then the minute they talked about God it was like oh no no and it
1:17.1	it was like this steel door would slam in my head and then everything else they
1:22.2	said from that point on they were an
1:23.9	idiots don't I mean from that it's and I couldn't hear anything and we're going to
1:30.3	get into a little bit why that some of that's like that.
1:35.0	But there's a paragraph in the beginning of We Agnostics that really is the point I had to get to.
1:45.0	And I think it's the point that brings us to the table.
1:48.0	It's I don't have to really believe in God so much
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