first of all, we might have a phone in the middle conferencing in our beloved eagles and crossed-out cameras that cant join us for future meetings.
Second, a little birdie tells me that Dov wants to join too, but hes afraid of Zemmy's heat-seeking missiles. Oh well, i guess we have to wait for the colder months to come around when we're all freezing so the heat-seeking missiles wont find us.

WOW!!! we're getting popular!!!! i feel like im in the "in-crowd"

haha, well now that i left when all the action is taking place i feel like the out crowd.

last night we had a meeting at duvid chaim's house. there was iced tea and sunflower seeds, both from texas, parve cheetos, wafers and cookies. pidaini attended via phone (and spend most of his time trying to get at the seeds through the phone)
some stuff we spoke about:
asking G-d to direct our thinking (Alcoholics Anonymous page 86)
switching expectations to preferences
addict vs. non addict
giving vs. taking

It was actually more like Chee-Toes, no?

What about the painting on the wall of me?
Didn't you take a picture Lizzie?

If I may add,

"if there is TENSE, past-TENSE (resentments) and/or future-TENSE (fears) then there is no "present" (ever heard of present-tense? me neither), but if there is just the past and just the future then we are truly in the present"

From Duvid Chaim

tehillimzugger wrote:

Here you go Tilly...

no updates?
Stenographer wasn't there?
Mushroom Table?
Dips?
Mussar?
Step 5?
how to block the internet on a bb10 without blocking gye and email account?
nu? ni?

sorry sorry. sheesh!

ok here goes.

there was candy. no one saved me any.

lizhensk found us a meeting place! (no mushroom tables tho) we started off with some suggestions lizhensk got from dov on how to make things more serious/effective/organized. kinda ironically i dont remember ever having as much clowning around ever. i needed it tho so that makes everything okay. we discussed that the ikkar is honesty. if we are honest with each other than we can be honest with ourselves allowing us to be honest with Hashem. being Honest with Hashem allows us to develop a REAL relationship with Him which is what keeps us sober and is also very awesome and cool and the purpose of our existence. then each of shared what was going on with us. i had to leave early (coming late, leaving early?! i should be ashamed of myself!)

thats what i got on the meeting

So, here comes the part that Grandpa missed when he came late and left early:
After walking thru an abandoned construction site, with gates falling down around it, we found ourselves in a park, and soon thereafter somehow found ourselves in a shul. Avrom immediately took a liking to the stained glass windows, but held himself back from making too much fun of the shul. We had a small crowd last night due to Pidaini being busy with the non-english accent, BenD was busy protesting kevarim digging, and HashemsSoldier was busy being HAPPY
Skep however found time after learning to chap some hisorerus.

We also set kind of a schedule for every meeting. We're first gonna have intros, when everyone introduces themselves, no sharing yet. Then We're gonna have 10-20 minutes (the exact amount of time must be voted on) of reading thru the 12 steps and discussing how to apply it to real-life. And then we share our experiences. Dov gave us some great advice. The main thing is like Grandpa said, honesty. Second was, we SHARE, we dont advise and we dont teach. We do not refer to people as "you should do this" we say "When i had a similar situation, this is how i reacted". We applied it, and it worked out great im speaking for myself here.
We ended off with a vort from some Rebbe (this is what i got out of the story, k?) how sadly in today's days, nobody really believes in Hashgacha Pratis unless their life was really messed over (He used some other language which is why i cant say which rebbe )

honestly, gr8 stuf!

Hi All,
I am a new member from the holy land as well - I am trying to grow and get more control of my life and wanted to find out about what is going on here in eretz yisrael - are they calls? people available to sponsor?

Thanks!!!

Lizhensk wrote:

TZ says he doesnt agree with all of the above, tho he does agree to some. It will be up for discussion by our next meeting. So im hereby not taking responsibility for this part of my post

JordanBloom wrote:


First things first, no it is not a call (athough there is that option as well) it is a real live meeting of GYE members in yerushalayim (and the outskirts).

We are trying to solidly grow together, with help from the 12 step program. We have not been using sponser/sponsee technic quite yet.

You are welcome to contact any of us for more details. Usernames (that still have some internet access) are as follows Pidaini, Lizhensk, Hashem's soldier, nitzotzeloki, tehillimzugger, BNGE.

Hatzlachah!!!

Thursday night I walk in to one of the three satmar Batei Midrash in Yerushalayim and lo andd behold! there were Avrom and Inna plugging away at VaYoel Moshe, seriously! I thought I was hallucinating, so I did what any good Satmar chossid would do, I pulled up a chair and joined! Inna donated candy Avrom donated cigarettes and I donated my proficiency in Roshei Teivos. It was fun.