From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... pointless if
our friend never took the ...
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
These observations would be academic and pointless if our
friend never took the first drink, thereby setting the terrible cycle in motion.
2.
... pointless piece
of surgery.
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
This reopening of emotional wounds, some old, some perhaps forgotten, and some still
painfully festering,
will at first look like a purposeless and pointless
piece of surgery.
3.
... pointless to
become angry, or to get ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
It will become more and more evident as we go forward that it is pointless
to become angry, or to get hurt by people who, like us, are suffering from the pains of
growing up.
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