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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... proof.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
2.
... proof?
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
And does not
science demonstrate that
visual
proof is the
weakest proof?
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
He will usually
offer his
proof in a
statement like this:
"
Sure, I was
beaten,
absolutely licked.
5.
... proof is
the weakest proof?
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
And does not
science demonstrate that
visual
proof is the
weakest proof?
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
Proof that
alcoholics
could
recover had been made.
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.
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