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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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... futility.   BB p.9, Bill's Story   Go to page 9 in the Big Book
His coming was an oasis in this dreary desert of futility.


2.
... futility and their fatality.   BB p.70, How It Works   Go to page 70 in the Big Book
We have begun to comprehend their futility and their fatality.


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... futility and unhappiness.   BB p.66, How It Works   Go to page 66 in the Big Book
It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads only to futility and unhappiness.


4.
... futility of existence, they show the underlying ...   BB p.51, We Agnostics   Go to page 50 in the Big Book
Once confused and baffled by the seeming futility of existence, they show the underlying reasons why they were making heavy going of life.


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... futility of life as we had been ...   BB p.25, There Is A Solution   Go to page 25 in the Big Book
But we saw that it really worked in others, and we had come to believe in the hopelessness and futility of life as we had been living it.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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