Here's the pitch

IN my home group we say that Bill W. was a "cunning linguist." Like Humpty Dumpty, Bill had the philosophy that, "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less." A classic example of this approach is found in the Big Book, where Bill says, "When, therefore, we speak to you of God, we mean your own conception of God. This applies, too, to other spiritual expressions which you find in this book." The word "God" and other spiritual words don't have their usual meaning in the Big Book, but rather they mean what Bill says they mean (which in this case is "your own conception").