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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
SEEMS occurs
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1.
... seems best.
BB p.102,
Working With Others
Go or
stay away,
whichever seems best.
2.
... seems good
to me, and is not ...
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
The
kind of
education
seems good to me, and is not
too
controversial.
3.
... seems impossible.
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
4.
... seems impossible,
but to continue as he ...
BB p.44,
We Agnostics
5.
... seems like
a very dubious and improbable ...
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
To new
A.A.'s, this often
seems
like a very
dubious and
improbable state of
affairs.
6.
... seems most
difficult, and in much detail ...
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
The
classification of
alcoholics seems most
difficult, and in much
detail is
outside the
scope of this book.
7.
... seems no
way of entirely getting rid ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
And there often
seems no way of
entirely getting rid of
self without His
aid.
8.
... seems plain
that few of us can ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
Therefore, it
seems plain
that few of us can
quickly or
easily become ready to
aim at
spiritual and
moral perfection; we
want to
settle for only as much
perfection as will get us by in
life,
according, of
course, to our
various and
sundry ideas of what will
get us by.
9.
... seems plain
that the grace of God ...
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
It
seems plain that the
grace of
God will not
enter to
expel our
destructive obsessions until we are
willing to
try this.
10.
... seems the
only normal one.
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
To them, their
alcoholic life seems the only
normal one.
11.
... seems to
be in wise and prudent ...
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
I
suspect that if it is
wisely handled -- and it
seems to be in
wise and
prudent hands -- there are
doors of
opportunity ahead of this
project that
may
surpass our
capacities to
imagine."
12.
... seems to
be littered with bleeding forms.
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
13.
... seems to
be that most chronic alcoholics ...
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
Much has been
written pro
and
con, but among
physicians, the
general
opinion seems to be that
most
chronic alcoholics are
doomed.
14.
... seems to
be that once everybody's primary ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
The
theory seems to be that
once
everybody's
primary instincts are
satisfied, there won't be much
left to
quarrel about.
15.
... seems to
be unloving and inconsiderate; it ...
BB p.108,
To Wives
Of
course, there is such a thing as
incompatibility, but in
nearly every
instance the
alcoholic only
seems to
be
unloving and
inconsiderate; it is usually because he is
warped and
sickened that he
says and does these
appalling things.
16.
... seems to
cause more trouble.
BB p.68,
How It Works
It
seems to
cause more
trouble.
17.
... seems to
deal with a purely practical ...
12&12 p.175,
Tradition Nine
18.
... seems to
make little difference.
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
19.
... seems to
me to be of paramount ...
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
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