From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
FUTILITY occurs
5 times
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1.
... futility.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
His
coming was an
oasis in
this
dreary desert of
futility.
2.
... futility and
their fatality.
BB p.70,
How It Works
We have
begun to
comprehend their
futility
and their
fatality.
3.
... futility and
unhappiness.
BB p.66,
How It Works
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
5.
... futility of
life as we had been ...
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
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.
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