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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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Every newcomer in Alcoholics Anonymous is
told, and soon realizes for himself, that
his humble admission of
powerlessness over alcohol is his first step toward liberation from its paralyzing grip.
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We would not even do the cause
of temperate drinking
any good, for not one drinker in a thousand likes to be told anything about alcohol by one who hates it.
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The two friends spoke of their spiritual experience and told him about
the course of action they carried out.
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"The doctor told him that if
he ever drank again it would kill him, but there
he is all lit up again."
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He has just returned from a
three-months leave of absence, has taken a cure, looks fine, and to clinch the matter, the board of directors told him this was his last chance."
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He paid a fine tribute to the Fellowship;
he told how his family had
been reunited; he extolled the virtue of honesty; he recalled the joys of Twelfth Step work; and then he lowered the boom.
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Committees have instructed many an A.A. to stop working on a chronic backslider, only to be told:
"How I do my Twelfth Step work is my business.
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In a matter of fact way he told how two men had appeared in court, persuading the judge to suspend his commitment.
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The story he told is most instructive, for here was a
chap absolutely convinced he had to stop drinking, who had no excuse for drinking, who exhibited splendid judgment and determination in all his other concerns, yet was flat on his back nevertheless.
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One day he told me about an executive of the
same bank who, from his description, was undoubtedly alcoholic.
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But from what you've told me about yourself and your problems
and how you propose to lick
them, I think I know what's wrong.'
22.
I now remembered what my alcoholic friends had told me, how they prophesied
that if I had an alcoholic mind, the time and place would come -- I would drink again.
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I well remember the shock I received when a prominent doctor in Chicago told me of cases where pressure of the spinal fluid actually ruptured the brain.
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As the whisky rose to my head I told myself I would manage better next time, but I might as well get good and drunk then.
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The man in the bed was told of the acute poisoning from which he suffered, how it deteriorates the body of an
alcoholic and warps his mind.
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But they had not learned enough of humility, fearlessness and honesty, in the sense we find it necessary, until they told someone else all their life story.
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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."
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Then we had been told that so far
as alcohol is concerned,
self-confidence was no good whatever; in fact, it was a total liability.
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First off, they can be told
that the majority of A.A. members have suffered severely from self-justification during
their drinking days.
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It did not satisfy us to be told that we could not control our
drinking just because we were maladjusted to life, that we
were in full flight from reality, or were outright mental defectives.
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Lacking both practice and humility, they
had deluded themselves
and were able to justify the
most arrant nonsense on
the ground that this was what God had told them.
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We are greatly indebted
to the doctor in attendance there, for he, although it might prejudice his own work, has told us of his belief in ours.
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We admit we have some of these symptoms, but we have not gone
to the extremes you fellows did, nor are we likely to, for we understand ourselves so
well after what you have told us that such things cannot happen again.
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One of the many doctors who had the opportunity of reading
this book in manuscript form told us that the use of sweets was often helpful, of course depending upon a doctor's advice.
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People needed to be told what alcoholism was, so
we'd educate the public, even rewrite school and medical textbooks.
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Why don't you try some more controlled drinking, bearing in mind meanwhile what we have
told you about alcoholism?"
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Here was the terrible dilemma in which our friend found himself when he had the
extraordinary experience, which as we have already told you, made him a free man.
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