From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... pet enterprise.
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
Unthinkingly, A.A.'s so
employed recklessly
broke anonymity to thump the tub for their pet enterprise.
2.
... pet obsession
was that A.A. could get ...
12&12 p.143,
Tradition Three
3.
... pet theory
wrong.
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
But we recoiled from meditation and prayer as
obstinately as the scientist who refused to
perform a certain experiment lest it prove his pet theory wrong.
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