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A Dozen Steps

March 6th, 2008

Traditions Checklist - Tradition Three

I’ve had a copy of The Traditions Checklist bookmarked for quite a while so…
Traditions Checklist - Tradition Three: The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking.
1. In my mind, do I prejudge some new AA members as losers?
2. Is there some kind of alcoholic whom I privately do not want in […]

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February 12th, 2008

What A.A. Does Not Do

Reprinted from “The AA Group: Where It All Begins”
What A.A. Does Not Do
Tradition Ten: Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
1. Recruit members or furnish initial motivation for alcoholics to recover.
2. Keep membership records or case histories.
3. Follow up or try to control […]

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February 9th, 2008

Imagine Alcoholics Anonymous Without The Twelve Traditions?

It isn’t so hard to do…
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
Post Office Box 607
Hollywood Station
Hollywood, California
December Fifth 1941
Irma Livoni
939 S. Gramercy Place
Los Angeles, California
Dear Mrs. Livoni:
At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Los Angeles Group of Alcoholics Anonymous, held Dec. 4th, 1941, it was decided that your attendance at group meetings was no longer desired until certain […]

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March 23rd, 2007

The Third Tradition

Long Form;
“Our membership ought to include all who suffer from alcoholism. Hence we may refuse none who wish to recover. Nor ought A.A. membership ever depend upon money or conformity. Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that, as a group, they have no other affiliation.”
Short […]

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May 29th, 2006

What Would The Master Do?

I’m directing this post towards those “experienced AAs” who practice this sick kind of tolerance/intolerance towards newcomers, specifically those newcomers who have problems in addition to alcohol.
From pg. 142 in the 12 and 12. A newcomer shows up with an additional problem and in turn, poses a problem for the membership of the group.
“But,” he […]

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