From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
NONSENSE occurs
6 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... nonsense.
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
I
simply won't
consider
such
nonsense.
2.
... nonsense.
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
"This is nonsense.
3.
... nonsense."
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
His
pet obsession was that
A.A. could get along
better
without
its "
God nonsense."
4.
Nonsense.
BB p.98,
Working With Others
Nonsense.
5.
... nonsense on
the ground that this was ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
Lacking both
practice
and
humility, they had
deluded themselves and were able to
justify the most
arrant
nonsense on the
ground that
this was what
God had told them.
6.
... nonsense; we
could cite it chapter and ...
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
The
Bible, we said, was
full
of
nonsense; we could
cite it
chapter and
verse, and we
couldn't see the
Beatitudes for the '
begats.'
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