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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
NONSENSE occurs
6 times
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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
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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