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Upon hearing this, our friend was somewhat relieved, for he reflected
that, after all, he was a good
church member.
2.
This dry spell lasted for about three weeks; then I went to Atlantic City to attend several days' meeting of a national society of which I
was a member.
3.
Of course, the often disputed question of whether God can -- and will, under certain conditions -- remove defects of character will be answered with a prompt affirmative by almost any A.A. member.
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If an A.A. member acting as a citizen can become a better researcher, educator, personnel officer, then why not?
7.
I would sometimes hide out in one of the clubs of which I was a member, and
had the habit at times of registering at a hotel under a fictitious name.
8.
Neither its General Service Conference, its Foundation Board,(*) nor the humblest group committee can issue a single directive to an A.A. member and make it stick, let alone mete out any punishment.
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12.
Why is it, they ask, that in A.A. no member
can be set in personal authority over another, that nothing like a central government can anywhere
be seen?
13.
But when we had declared that our Fellowship couldn't hire service workers nor could any A.A. member carry our knowledge into other fields, we were taking the counsel of fear, fear which today has been largely dispelled in the light of experience.
14.
Practically every A.A. member declares that no satisfaction has been deeper and no joy greater than in a Twelfth Step job well done.
15.
Unless each A.A. member follows to the best of his ability our suggested Twelve Steps to recovery, he almost certainly signs his own death warrant.
16.
The association wanted
to use our member's full name in all its advertising; he was to be
described both as its director of publicity and as a member of
Alcoholics Anonymous.
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It is plain for everybody
to see that each sober A.A. member has been granted a release from this very obstinate and potentially fatal obsession.
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Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic
member has to if he would recover.
21.
About two weeks later, Ed stole by night into an A.A. member's house and, unknown to the family, went to bed.
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When told that our Society
has no president having authority to govern it, no treasurer who can compel the payment of any dues, no board of directors who can cast an erring member into outer darkness, when indeed no A.A. can give
another a directive and
enforce obedience, our
friends gasp and exclaim, "This simply can't
be. There must be an angle somewhere."
25.
Just as the aim of each A.A. member is personal sobriety, the aim of our services is to bring sobriety within reach of all who want it.
26.
One more suggestion: Whether the family has spiritual convictions or not, they may do well to examine the principles by which the alcoholic member is trying to live.
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As each member of a resentful family begins to see his shortcomings and admits
them to the others, he lays a
basis for helpful discussion.
29.
One of these men, staff member of a world-renowned hospital, recently made this statement to some of
us: "What you say about the general hopelessness of
the average alcoholic's
plight is, in my opinion,
correct.
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When writing or speaking
publicly about alcoholism, we urge each of our Fellowship to omit his personal name, designating himself instead as "a member of Alcoholics Anonymous."
33.
The association wanted
to use our member's full name in all its advertising; he was to be
described both as its director of publicity and as a member of
Alcoholics Anonymous.
34.
Though he is now a most effective member of Alcoholics Anonymous, he
still smokes and drinks coffee, but neither his wife nor anyone else stands in judgment.
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We think each family which has been relieved owes something to those who have
not, and when the occasion requires, each member of it should be only too willing to bring former mistakes, no matter how grievous, out of their hiding places.
39.
So the hand of Providence
early gave us a sign that any alcoholic is a member of our
Society when he says so.
40.
We have not once sought to be
one in a family, to be a friend among friends, to be a worker among workers, to be a useful member of society.
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After coming from our first meeting, or perhaps after we have finished reading the book "Alcoholics Anonymous," we usually want to sit down with some member of the family and readily admit the damage we have done by our drinking.
43.
We find the more one member of the family demands that the others concede to him, the more resentful they become.
44.
They rush from crisis to crisis and from member to member, pleading; but it's no use, the revolution is on.
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10. No A.A. group or member should ever, in such a way as to implicate A.A., express any opinion on outside controversial
issues -- particularly
those of politics, alcohol reform, or sectarian religion.
47.
Ten -- No A.A.
group or member should ever, in such a way as to implicate A.A., express any opinion on outside controversial
issues -- particularly
those of politics, alcohol reform, or sectarian religion.
48.
Of course, there couldn't be the slightest objection if such an association hired an A.A. member solely because of his public relations ability and his
knowledge of alcoholism.
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A great wave of outraged resentment engulfed the meeting, sweeping every member to a single resolve: "Out he goes!"
53.
But that wasn't the whole story, for in this case not only
was an A.A. member to break his anonymity at a public level, he was to link the name Alcoholics Anonymous to
this particular educational project in
the minds of millions.
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55.
They rush from crisis to crisis and from member to member, pleading; but it's no use, the revolution is on.
56.
Among many employers nowadays, we think of one member who has spent much of his life in the world of big business.
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