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soberincancun

Nov 23, 2010, 12:38 PM

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Hello,
we finally got around to finishing the website for our english speaking AA group here in Cancun, Mexico.
It would be great if you could help to get the word out for those visitors who want to come to a meeting.

http://cancun-aa.com

Thank you very much.
Michael

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Nov 24, 2010, 5:47 AM

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Thanks for the link. We should probably do the same here in Merida. For now I can list the meetings we have. Tuesdays and Sundays at 5:30 pm at the Merida English Language Library (Calle 53 x 66 y 68 Centro). Tuesdays at 6:00 pm at Casa Catherwood (Calle 59 x 72 y 74 Centro) and Thursdays at 7 pm at the Merida English Language Library. There is also an Al-Anon meeting on Wednesdays at 5:30 at the library. All meetings are open meetings.

soberincancun

Nov 24, 2010, 5:54 AM

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I can make a section on our site and will put down the schedule there until you have your own site.

fishfrier

Nov 24, 2010, 7:01 AM

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That would be great. We have a business meeting tonight so we can discuss the topic.

Hound Dog

Nov 24, 2010, 10:44 AM

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Hello,
we finally got around to finishing the website for our english speaking AA group here in Cancun, Mexico.
It would be great if you could help to get the word out for those visitors who want to come to a meeting.

http://cancun-aa.com

Thank you very much.
Michael

Michael:

You are extolling a fine endeavor. However, I am not writing you to thank you nor engage in your group´s activities which I.personally, would never do even though, on the other hand, that is not meant to diminish the results of your experiences. San Cristóbal de Las Casas has more AA meeting places than any place I have ever lived in my life and they are damned active with daily festivities and prayers accompanied by rather attractive communal singing but Chiapas remains the place in Mexico where family dysfunction and violence in the extreme is most common. Spousal and child abuse are commonplace and not controllable.

Just discussion points: Why is it that the places on the planet in which we resided always proved the following premises:
* The places emphasizing the need to control violence are always the most violent places without any true hope of redemption.
* The places where non-caloric faux-sweeteners are most consumed are the places with the fattest people on the planet.

I already think I know the anwser to these positions in my mind but am soliciting the opinions of others.






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soberincancun

Nov 24, 2010, 10:49 AM

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Ok, say hello to my Sponsor Bruce for me.

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Nov 24, 2010, 12:08 PM

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Re: [Hound Dog] Violence and saccharin - was AA Meetings in Cancun

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The anti-violence programs do not increase violence. In my town in the USA, we don't have a big anti-violence program, because we do not have a lot of violence. There was a nationally publicized murder case that the local police bungled, but that was partly because they get very little practice in investigating murders. There are some specific anti-violence programs for women, safehouses and night rides. But if you live in a town with heavy violence, then civic minded people get together to try to reduce the violence, although these programs have limited effectiveness.

Equally, if there is an alcohol problem there will be AA meetings to respond to the problem. I see more AA signs in Mexico than in the USA. As far as I know, AA is at least as successful as any other form of alcohol treatment, and costs a lot less, so more power to them.

The sugar free sweeteners may or may not increase or decrease your weight. (The studies go both ways, as I recall). But if weight is not a concern, then people use sugar instead of sugar free sweeteners, if only because it tastes better.

When two things are correlated, from a statistical standpoint, it does not prove cause and effect. If A and B seem to be correlated (concentrated in the same places or groups), that does not mean that A causes B or that B causes A. It might be that there is something else, a root cause C, that causes both A and B.

Dog, I will guess that you and I agree on this topic.

Richard


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Hound Dog

Nov 24, 2010, 1:11 PM

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We do, Richard.

By the way; it was not my intention to highjack this thread which was, obviously, started with a positive cause. Good luck to you all.


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soberincancun

Nov 25, 2010, 11:39 AM

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The Merida meeting schedule is now on our website.
Please check it out and let me know if you need any changes or additions.
http://cancun-aa.com/schedules-merida.html
Thanks.
 
 
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