Joe says,
“NOt Spam. Not Spam.
I wasn’t going to comment on this but I changed my mind.
You said, “wordism is loyalty to a BOOK, to WORDS.” That’s your definition. I’m willing to accept it. In fact, I think it’s your creation. I don’t fool with anybody’s creation. That’s personal.
This piece caused me to think about the Big Book. Now you know what the Big Book is so we can sort of make it personal this time. When I first came into the Fellowship in this part of the country almost nobody referred to the Big Book. The group was small. One old-timer mentioned the Big Book and I inquired about it. I gobbled it up and soon we were having what is called Big Book Studies. After a time I chaired many of these meetings. Soon the house was packed. They came from all around. It was a wonderful experience. I came to find that nationwide and even worldwide there were many people who were “loyal” to the Big Book, specifically, the words in the Big Book. Without this they might never have made it. They will testify to that. If this is wordism it’s working for a whole lot of people. I’ve seen lives change for the better as a result of this loyalty to the Big Book and the words which express ideas that have changed their lives. It’s not the only book but it’s the book I’m talking about at the moment.
I’m not trying to promote anything one way or another. I’m just telling what I know to be a fact. ”
MY REPLY:
If I do electrical work, I USE a book. My loyalty to my race is unshaken.
Those who wrote the big book made it very clear it was not a religion. If you use the book as I did because it works, you are not a Wordist. But if you WORHIP the big book and say, “My loyalty is to other drunks. Anyone who happens to be black is therefore fine to marry my daughter,” you ARE a Wordist, and a lot of people do that.
You are halfway there, though. Your entire dialogue here is telling us to give up fighting for our race, but you would never say such a thing when you are trying to save drunks. In fact, you or I would consider it a moral violation to urge people to give up on drunks as hopeless, but you have no effort to spare for your race.
Wordism is a transfer of LOYALTY, not using some book that works in a particular case.
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