From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... stubborn about
them.
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
2.
... stubborn, rebellious
hanging on to them.
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
So we decided that while
we still had some flaws of
character that we could not yet relinquish, we ought nevertheless to quit our stubborn, rebellious hanging on to
them.
3.
... stubborn resistance
or, worse still, laughter.
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
He and all like him who "view
with alarm for the good of A.A." meet the most stubborn resistance or, worse still, laughter.
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