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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
MEMBERSHIP occurs
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1.
... membership a
salesman we shall call Ed.
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
Not
long after the
man with the
double stigma knocked for
admission,
A.A.'s other
group received into
its membership a
salesman we shall
call
Ed.
2.
... membership; among
newer members, the proportion is ...
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
Women now make up more than one-
fourth of the
membership; among
newer members, the
proportion is
nearly
one-
third.
3.
... membership and
a clear-cut idea of what ...
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
These
give a
fair cross section of our
membership and a
clear-
cut idea of what has
actually happened in
their
lives.
4.
... membership be
publicized, thereby encouraging others to ...
12&12 p.182,
Tradition Eleven
Provided they were
willing -- and many were -- why shouldn't their
membership be
publicized,
thereby
encouraging others to
join us?
5.
... membership ever
depend upon money or conformity.
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Three (Long)
Nor ought
A.A. membership ever
depend upon
money or
conformity.
6.
... membership ever
depend upon money or conformity.
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Nor ought
A.A. membership ever
depend upon
money or
conformity.
7.
... membership from
a few into hundreds overnight.
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
Cleveland's
Plain Dealer articles about us
ran that
town's
membership from a few into
hundreds overnight.
8.
... membership had
shot up to 2,000.
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
By
March 1941 the
membership had
shot up to
2,000.
9.
... membership had
then reached about 100 men ...
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
The
membership had then
reached about
100 men and
women.
10.
... membership has
been led to us through ...
12&12 p.180,
Tradition Eleven
It is no
exaggeration to say that
half of
A.A.'s
membership has been
led to us through
channels like these.
11.
... membership in
a religious body.
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
Though the
family has no
religious connections, they may
wish
to make
contact with or take
membership in a
religious body.
12.
... membership in
a year's time.
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
13.
... membership is
a desire to stop drinking."
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
"The only
requirement for
A.A. membership is a
desire to
stop drinking."
14.
... membership is
a desire to stop drinking."
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
He
read aloud, "The only
requirement for
A.A. membership is a
desire to
stop drinking."
15.
... membership is
a desire to stop drinking.
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Three -- The only
requirement for
A.A. membership is a
desire to
stop drinking.
16.
... membership is
a desire to stop drinking.
Grapevine,
Preamble
The only
requirement for
membership is a
desire to
stop drinking.
17.
... membership is
an honest desire to stop ...
BB xiv,
Foreword to First Edition
The only
requirement for
membership is an
honest desire to
stop drinking.
18.
... membership is
far above 150,000 recovered alcoholics.
BB xv,
Foreword to Second Edition
19.
... membership is
pyramiding at the rate of ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
At
present, our
membership
is
pyramiding at the
rate of about
twenty per cent a
year.
20.
... membership, leadership,
and money?
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
Would there be
quarrels over
membership,
leadership, and
money?
21.
... membership might
angrily rush off to form ...
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Disliking the
attempt
of some to
manage a
group,
half its membership might
angrily rush off to
form another
group more to their
liking.
22.
... membership, money,
personal relations, public relations, management ...
12&12 p.18,
Foreword
23.
... membership of
A.A. has just about doubled, ...
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
24.
... membership of
Alcoholics Anonymous more accurately, and ...
BB xii,
Preface
All
changes made over the
years in the
Big Book (
A.A. members'
fond nickname for this
volume) have had the same
purpose: to
represent the
current membership of
Alcoholics Anonymous
more
accurately, and thereby to
reach more
alcoholics.
25.
... membership of
Alcoholics Anonymous was conservatively estimated ...
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
26.
... membership of
over two million.
BB p.162,
A Vision For You (Note)
27.
... membership of
thousands of alcoholics such transformations, ...
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
28.
... membership ought
to include all who suffer ...
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Three (Long)
Three -- Our
membership ought
to
include all who
suffer
from
alcoholism.
29.
... membership ought
to include all who suffer ...
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
3. Our
membership ought to
include all who
suffer from
alcoholism.
30.
... membership passed
the hundred thousand mark.
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
Their
membership passed the
hundred thousand mark.
31.
... membership regulations?
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
Why did
A.A. finally
drop all
its membership regulations?
32.
... membership regulations.
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
As
group after
group saw
these
possibilities, they finally
abandoned all
membership regulations.
33.
... membership rules.
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
"At one
time," he says, "every
A.A. group had many
membership rules.
34.
... membership rules?
12&12 p.172,
Tradition Nine
Did anyone ever
hear of a
nation, a
church, a
political party, even a
benevolent association that had no
membership rules?
35.
... membership survey
showed about one-tenth of A.A.'s ...
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism (Note)
But a
2001 U.S./Canada
membership survey showed about one-
tenth of
A.A.'s were
thirty and under.
36.
... membership that
a new light had entered ...
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
37.
... membership, that
we must never compel anyone ...
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
Why did we
dare to say,
contrary to the
experience of
society
and
government everywhere, that we would neither
punish nor
deprive any
A.A. of
membership, that we
must never compel anyone to
pay anything,
believe anything, or
conform to anything?
38.
... membership took
years of harrowing experience.
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
39.
... membership was
small, dealt with low-bottom cases ...
12&12 p.23,
Step One
That is why the
first edition of the book "
Alcoholics Anonymous,"
published when our
membership was
small,
dealt with
low-
bottom cases only.
40.
... membership; we
are self-supporting through our own ...
Grapevine,
Preamble
There are no
dues or
fees for
AA membership; we are
self-
supporting through our
own contributions.
41.
... membership whose
characteristics -- of age, gender, race, ...
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
42.
... membership, will
give such inquirers an inside ...
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
The
second section of
this
volume, though
designed for
A.A.'s
membership, will
give such
inquirers an
inside view of
A.A. never before
possible.
Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous
and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
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