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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
PROPOSITION occurs
8 times
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1.
... proposition.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
After we
came to
A.A., we had to
recognize that this
trait had been an
ego-
feeding proposition.
2.
... proposition, bad
for him and bad for ...
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
I
realized that my
five-
dollar gift to the
slippee was an
ego-
feeding proposition,
bad for him and
bad for me.
3.
... proposition, however,
these men and women are ...
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
On one
proposition, however, these
men and
women are
strikingly agreed.
4.
... proposition in
nuclear physics.
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Maybe this all
sounds mysterious and
remote,
something like
Einstein's
theory of
relativity or a
proposition in
nuclear physics.
5.
... proposition, pure
and simple.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
It was a
service proposition,
pure and
simple.
6.
... proposition that
either God is everything or ...
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
When we
became alcoholics,
crushed by a
self-
imposed crisis we could not
postpone or
evade, we had to
fearlessly face the
proposition that either
God is
everything or else He is
nothing.
7.
... proposition that
this universe originated in a ...
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
Few people really are, for that
means blind faith in the
strange proposition that this
universe originated
in a
cipher and
aimlessly rushes nowhere.
8.
... proposition will
be no theory at all; ...
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
To him, this
proposition will be no
theory at all; it will be just about the
largest fact in his
life.
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