From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... proof.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
Everybody nowadays,
believes in scores of assumptions for which there is good evidence, but no perfect visual proof.
2.
... proof?
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
3.
... proof against
all arguments and which cannot ...
BB p.568(570),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance -- that principle is contempt prior to investigation." -- Herbert Spencer
4.
... proof in
a statement like this: "Sure, ...
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
5.
... proof is
the weakest proof?
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
6.
... proof of
it, still be unconvincing or ...
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
To certain newcomers
and to those one-time agnostics who still cling to the A.A. group as their higher power, claims for the power of prayer may, despite all the
logic and experience in
proof of it, still be unconvincing or quite objectionable.
7.
... proof of
the nonexistence of God.
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
Religion says the existence of God can be proved; the agnostic says it can't be proved; and
the atheist claims proof of the nonexistence of
God.
8.
Proof that
alcoholics could recover had been ...
12&12 p.18,
Foreword
9.
... proof that
love freely given surely brings ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
Service, gladly rendered, obligations
squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved with God's help, the knowledge that at home or in
the world outside we are
partners in a common effort, the well-understood fact that in God's sight all human beings are important, the proof that love freely given surely brings a full return, the certainty that
we are no longer isolated and alone in self-constructed prisons, the surety that we
need no longer be square pegs in round holes but can fit and belong in God's scheme of things -- these are
the permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right
living for which no amount of pomp and circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes.
10.
... proof the
expectant purchaser would be forced ...
BB p.171,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Without this proof the expectant purchaser
would be forced to depart
empty handed with none of what I later came to believe was the great panacea for all human ills.
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