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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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... regarding ourselves as intelligent agents, spearheads of ...   BB p.49, We Agnostics   Go to page 49 in the Big Book
Instead of regarding ourselves as intelligent agents, spearheads of God's ever advancing Creation, we agnostics and atheists chose to believe that our human intelligence was the last word, the alpha and the omega, the beginning and end of all.

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... regarding the satisfaction of our material desires ...   12&12 p.71, Step Seven
Instead of regarding the satisfaction of our material desires as the means by which we could live and function as human beings, we had taken these satisfactions to be the final end and aim of life.

3.
... regarding these had been anything but scientific.   12&12 p.27, Step Two
I saw that my attitude regarding these had been anything but scientific.


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