From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... ignorance and
misunderstanding.
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
2.
... ignorance, compulsion,
and self-will, do we misuse ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
So our question will be
this: How, by ignorance, compulsion, and self-will, do we misuse this gift for our own destruction?
3.
... ignorance of
alcoholism.
BB p.107,
To Wives
4.
... ignorance of
markets.
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
5.
... ignorance --
that principle is contempt prior to ...
BB p.568(570),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance -- that principle is
contempt prior to investigation." -- Herbert Spencer
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