Informal-interface hours with Geoffrey Day (AA-logic sparring)

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texture · Wed 11 Nov YDAU

When: Wednesday 11 November YDAU, "on and off from just after the Brookline Young People's AA Mtng up to about 2329h."
What: A "Selected Snippet" transcript of Gately's live-in-Staff interface hours: Geoffrey Day presses intellectual objections to AA (Denial-logic, "totalitarian"/"un-American" doctrine-against-questioning); Gately answers with patient humility, admitting his own limits ("Maybe when I look patient I'm really trying to be patient with myself, for not finishing school"), offering Analysis-Paralysis and "they can't kick you out," and asking Day to use words he can follow. Day: "Your basic decency is why you're whom I bring my thoughts to, Don."