Lies on just the FIRST PARAGRAPH!

LET'S LOOK AT THE FIRST PARAGRAPH OF THE GAMBLERS ANONYMOUS COMBO BOOK AND SEE HOW MANY LIES ARE PRESENT.



REMEMBER..... IF THIS IS AN HONEST PROGRAM....WHY ARE THERE SO MANY LIES???




FROM THE FIRST PARAGRAPH ON THE FIRST PAGE:


HISTORY

"The fellowship of Gamblers Anonymous is the outgrowth of a chance meeting between two men during the month of January in 1957. These men had a truly baffling history of trouble and misery due to an obsession to gamble. They began to meet regularly and as the months passed neither had returned to gambling. "



OK.... Let's look at the lies and misleading information we are given by the fellowship of G.A. just on the first paragraph of the first page!


Lie #1 can be found in the FIRST SENTENCE!!!!: GAMBLERS ANONYMOUS is NOT an outgrowth of a chance meeting between 2 men in January of 1957!!! IN FACT IF YOU READ JIM W.'s (Co-founder of G.A.) original story he speaks of meetings with other compulsive gamblers back in 1954... WITH HIM THERE!!! and there is indeed evidence that hundreds of meetings were already in existence well before 1957!!

Look the New York times speaks of G.A. meetings back in 1947....That is 10 years prior to what G.A. claims...

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00610FC3F5A107A93C6A9178AD85F438485F9

The Washington Post claims of meetings back in 1949.

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/216146662.html?dids=216146662:216146662&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=SEP+17%2C+1949&author=&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=

And TIME magazine acknowledges that Gamblers ANonymous meeetings had started in kentucky back in 1947?
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,855567,00.html

SO then why does CURRENT day G.A. not want to acknowledge the Gamblers Anonymous that was around prior to the so called founding in 1957????

BECAUSE OF 1 SIMPLE REASON..... All the meetings prior to 1957 used a Spiritual approach to the Compulsive Gambling problem.... ALL OF THEM WERE USING ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS AS A GUIDE

It was not until 1957 that a hardcore athiest (Sam J.) met with Jim W. and was able to pursuade him to change the spiritual and God finding steps that had been used in G.A. meetings up to that point.

See.... Jim W. was a very spirtual man.... and he believed in the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous ... He never wanted to change the steps in Gamblers Anonymous ..... Sam J. pursuaded him to do so back in 1957......!

So what happened???

Well, the 2nd MAJOR lie in Gamblers ANonymous literature uncovers the TRUTH!

The Statement "As the months paths neither had returned to gambling"...... IS A COMPLETE LIE AND MISLEADING STATEMENT TO OTHER COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS!!

The TRUTH IS .... BOTH RETURNED TO GAMBLING! It is known that Sam J. returned to gambling almost immediately.... In fact he did not even attend the "so-called 2nd" meeting of G.A. Sam J. ended up DEAD! He died due to Gambling and Drinking.

While Jim W. did continue on for many years and tried to change G.A. back to a spiritual program....It was overrun by those compulsive gamblers who were able to stop gambling on a non-spiritual basis. Jim W. retuned to gambling back in the late 1960's and early 1970's....

(I will be posting a tape of Clancy I. AA speaker and Jim W.'s sponsor) which makes mention and describes Jim's relapse and how he was going to blow his head off with a gun!


So we have only made it through the first paragraph and already 2 huge lies! That changed the course of G.A. history to a non-spiritual program!

Ask yourself this..... How can anybody who is a Real compulsive gambler get better if they are told lies the first few moments of their first G.A. meeting.

THIS NEEDS TO STOP !!

There is an ANSWER!