Step 2 Men’s Gazette

Um, Okay. ….I Did It.

OPEN AI ChatGPT 3 – Write me a humorous column of Step 5 of Alcoholics Anonymous

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OPEN AI ChatGPT 4 – Write me a humorous column of Step 5 of Alcoholics Anonymous

The Fifth Step of Alcoholics Anonymous is a very important step that frees one from the guilt, shame and resentments of our alcoholism and alcoholic past. It is a vital step to recovery and there is nothing humorous about it.

OPEN AI ChatGPT 5 – Write me a humorous column of Step 5 of Alcoholics Anonymous

Your request is not unusual but it is not included with the standard service. It requires a nominal fee of $19.95 per month to be referred to the comedy writer’s desk. The current return time from concept to completion is estimated to be around 2 weeks.

Damn. I’ll pay you $40 for something faster.

The Kings lost the 7^th game of the First Round in the playoffs, The Giants are not much so far, I really don’t feel like writing a column about all my screw ups.

Do you remember the 13^th Step? It is vital for the proper approach to deal with telling someone else, that hopefully you trust, and can be completely honest and thorough admitting to someone everything that went wrong.

I don’t know. The first couple times I tried to do it, didn’t go that well. One guy said I wasn’t ready, one guy went back and forth from falling asleep to looking at me with abject horror on his face. And lets not forget Patty, who answered every transgression with how I blew it with that girl or this girl and she would have kept me on the straight and narrow. Hey Patty, they got fed up with me, and you married a nice guy, a good guy, and managed to install a pretty good alcoholic and drug addiction too.

13^th Step, Man … 13^th Step…. F#$K It ! Just do it …

That led to my current sponsor who was there for most of the drive to dispiritedness. He has taken my Fifth Step in chunks… Most of the time when we are reliving the past and some weekend where we tried to raise more hell than the weekend before. He is good to have around to correct my exaggerations and excuses.

So for me, the Fifth Step is an ongoing process. We discuss a lot of the past, both of ours. One thing we did find out. There are times where we remember every minute of some unsavory incident of getting drugs, and drinking Crown Royal. And today, I can walk out of my place to DOCO to get a cup of coffee, only to get there and walk into Macy’s because I cannot remember why I left my place in the first place.

Separate incidents of no relation? I think not.

Anyway, in my humble opinion, here is the deal. The Fourth Step is a pain, and the Fifth Step is even worse. But these Steps are particularly important. It helps free oneself from the past and lays a foundation for today and our tomorrows. I cannot take back any of the mistakes, but I can build strength to prevent them in the future.

So, use the 13^th Step and just do it, and if you can, keep it ongoing.

Contributed by John M.

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The GSR Says!

I have nothing new to report from the April Delegate’s Meeting. These meetings follow a standard format and this month’s meeting contained no new items from what I have shared with you over the past three months. I will continue to focus on items that are beneficial and useful to Step 2 Men’s Group.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Mark Q

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Contributed by Mike T.

Tradition 5

Short Form:

Each group has but one primary purpose—to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.

Long Form:

“Each Alcoholics Anonymous group ought to be a spiritual entity having but one primary purpose—that of carrying its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.“

Tradition Summary

We Only Have One Purpose

It is the great paradox of A.A. that we know we can seldom keep the precious gift of sobriety unless we give it away. This Tradition delineates pretty clearly our individual primary purpose, as well as the group’s. Each of us is but a small part of the whole, but by joining AA’s primary purpose to our own, we become something bigger than our individual selves.

Am I willing to surrender my old primary purposes?

To work this tradition means that I am willing to say “yes” to this question and rearrange the rest of my priorities. Devoting myself to a new primary purpose means that I am willing to let go of many old ideas. I have many thinking patterns that are automatic that I need to change in order to consecrate myself to a new primary purpose.

Step-Tradition Parallel

The relationship of the fifth step to the fifth tradition is that the fifth step taught me the exact nature of my wrongs, “I’m not in charge.” In the fifth tradition I learned just the opposite, I learned what my exact nature should be: my talent to carry the message to the alcoholic who still suffers, my primary purpose.

In the fifth step I learned what’s wrong about me and in the fifth tradition I learned what’s right about me. What’s right about me is my ability to carry the message when no one else can because of the experiences that I have had which were transformed into a message of hope in the fifth step. My alcoholism is my greatest talent, not my talents as a husband, father, son, or my job. I can fulfill my primary purpose for being born by carrying the message to the alcoholic who still suffers.

From an idea by George T.

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