Topic: The Beginning of a Lifetime Practice

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🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Today we have multiple speakers on the topic of - The Beginning of a Lifetime Practice, this was recorded at the 2015 Alcoholics Anonymous South Africa National Convention. Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Sober Cast has 3000+ 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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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Sobercast, where we provide A.A. Speaker Meetings and workshops in podcast format.
0:12.7	We're an ad-free podcast, and if you enjoy listening, please help us be self-supporting by visiting Sobercast.com, look for the link, and drop a dollar or two into our virtual
0:21.7	basket.
0:22.3	We hope you enjoyed the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:27.2	Okay, the topic of our meeting is the beginning of a lifetime practice.
0:34.2	This, what we've done is the reading from the big book, page 69 to 71.
0:42.0	This is the outline of the topic.
0:46.1	So I'm going to ask my friend Sue to come have to read this.
0:50.2	My name is Sue, and I'm an alcoholic.
1:00.0	Then we have the voices who cry for sex and more sex, who beware the institution of marriage,
1:03.0	who think that most of the troubles of the race are traceable to sex causes.
1:09.0	They think we do not have enough of it,
1:12.1	or that it isn't the right kind.
1:14.9	They see its significance everywhere.
1:18.3	One school would allow man no flavor for his fare,
1:22.3	and the other would have us all on straight pepper diet.
1:26.1	We want to stay out of this controversy.
1:29.1	We do not want to be the arbiter of anyone's sex conduct.
1:33.2	We all have sex problems.
1:36.3	We hardly be human if we didn't.
1:39.1	What can we do about them?
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