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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
EVIL occurs
3 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... evil.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
Self-
righteousness,
the very thing that we had
contemptuously
condemned in others, was our
own besetting evil.
2.
... evil."
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
3.
... evil and
corroding thread; the fabric of ...
BB p.67,
How It Works
It was an
evil and
corroding thread; the
fabric of our
existence
was
shot through with it.
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