Topic: Dick and Peggy M on the topic Traditions and Relationships
Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA
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🗓️ 12 July 2022
⏱️ 99 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops in |
| 0:11.3 | podcast format. We're an ad-free podcast, and if you enjoy listening, please help us |
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| 0:20.7 | to into our virtual basket. We hope you enjoyed the podcast. Have a great day. |
| 0:27.6 | We are part of nature. You are part of nature. I am part of nature. In nature, there are |
| 0:34.6 | no rewards and no punishments, simply consequences. The actions we take ring about consequences. |
| 0:43.5 | We must live with the consequences, whether they be comfortable or uncomfortable, there |
| 0:48.4 | are our own making, and we're talking about trying to get along with other people. We're |
| 0:54.3 | talking about relationships, one to another, whether you have to be a relationship with |
| 1:00.1 | your wife or husband, whether it be a relationship with your boyfriend or girlfriend, or whether |
| 1:05.5 | this be a relationship with your neighbors or friends or whatever happens to be. Principles |
| 1:10.3 | are simply principles, and it really doesn't make any difference. Principles or laws of |
| 1:15.7 | nature is what they are. They are neither right nor wrong, they just are. And if you break |
| 1:21.3 | the principles, they're going to be consequences as a result of them. And if you live with |
| 1:25.3 | the principles, they're going to be consequences as a result of that. It's just that simple. |
| 1:30.3 | Nothing complicated about it. Nothing mysterious about it. Nothing goofy about it. Nothing |
| 1:36.0 | ethereal about it. It's just simple. They're in our immutable laws of nature. And if you |
| 1:43.1 | live with the laws of nature, you're going to be comfortable. And if you don't, you're |
| 1:48.5 | not. And it's your choice. Isn't that terrible? I wish it wasn't that way. I really wish |
| 1:56.0 | it wasn't. It's really nice of us somebody else's fault, wasn't it? I am. It really |
| 2:01.9 | would be nice. Well, it usually is your fault. Well, yes, of course. It seems that way to |
| 2:08.9 | me. I was pleased, and I'm going to use the word pleasantly amused this morning. And |
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