From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
AFFECT occurs
4 times
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1.
... affect A.A.
as a whole without conferring ...
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Four (Long)
And no
group,
regional committee, or
individual should ever take any
action that might
greatly
affect A.A. as a
whole without
conferring
with the
trustees of the
General Service Board.
2.
... affect A.A.
as a whole without conferring ...
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
And no
group,
regional committee, or
individual should ever take any
action that might
greatly
affect A.A. as a
whole without
conferring
with the
trustees of the
General Service Board.
3.
... affect another
as no nonalcoholic could.
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
This
seemed to
prove that
one
alcoholic could
affect another as no
nonalcoholic could.
4.
... affect others
favorably, but criticism or ridicule ...
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
A
man may
criticize or
laugh at himself and it will
affect others
favorably, but
criticism or
ridicule coming from another often
produces the
contrary effect.
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