From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... testimony helps
sweep away prejudice, enables you ...
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
If our testimony helps sweep away prejudice, enables you to
think honestly, encourages you to search
diligently within yourself, then, if you wish,
you can join us on the Broad
Highway.
2.
... testimony must
surely come from medical men ...
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
Convincing testimony must surely come from medical men who have had experience
with the sufferings of our members and have witnessed our return to health.
3.
... testimony of
A.A.'s who have really tried ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
But the testimony of A.A.'s who
have really tried a moral inventory is that pride and fear of this sort turn out to be bogeymen, nothing else.
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