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100
Personal recovery depends upon ____ ______
AA Unity (AA tradition number One)
100
Tradition 3
Our membership ought to include all who _______
_____ ____________.
suffer from alcoholism
100
An Alcoholic is a ____ ________ kinda person in his/her default unrecovered position.
ME FIRST
100
In Tradition 12 it tells me to put AA Principles before (above) WHO’S personality?
MINE
100
Alcoholism is a ________ illness
PROGRESSIVE
200
In Big book in Vision For you when it talks about the Boy whistling in the dark …it say “HE WILL KNOW ________ SUCH AS FEW DO”
LONELINESS
200
Tradition 7
Every A.A. group ought to be______ _____-______ declining outside contributions.
Fully Self-Supporting
200
What does the Big Book say is the core (root) of our disease (our troubles)
Selfishness and self-centeredness
200
Tradition 12 “reminds us that we are to place principles before personalities; that we are actually to practice a ______ ________
genuine humility
200
Tradition 5: Each group has but one primary purpose—
to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers
300
What do we do when we feel we do not fit?
We judge others
300
Tradition 6: Problems of _____, _____ and ______ may easily divert us from our primary spiritual aim
money, property, and authority (prestige )
300
To get mad at AA is like for a diabetic to get _____ at insulin.
MAD
300
We learn things and we _____ them. Thats’ why we work with newcomers.
FORGET
300
We should listen to ______ in the meetings
God
400
Chuck C described ALCOHOLISM as a disease of _____
Separation (from God and Others)
400
What are the 3 legacies in AA?
Recovery, Unity and Service
400
Alcoholics leave AA one ______ at a time.
Judgement
400
Turn into the _____ when our natural inclination is to turn to the ________
SOLUTION ………..PROBLEM
400
What is the hardest thing for an alcoholic to do in the meeting?
To be present (to listen to God speaking to us thru others)
500
Chuck C said: “I am convinced that the only roadblock between me and you and me and my God is _______________.
The Human Ego
500
Chuck C: “I further believe that the best definition of the human ego is "the feeling of conscious separation from …….(WHAT?)
From life, good, God {which are synonymous),
from each other, and eventually from ourselves.
500
The leading psychiatrist of 20th century, Karl Jung, said that the alcoholic thirst for alcohol was really a thirst for _______
Unrecognized low level thirst for UNITY (with God)
500
The 12 Steps are for the alcoholic, the 12 Traditions are for the group and the 12 _______ are for the fellowship as a whole.
Concepts.
The Twelve Concepts of AA
Concept I: Final responsibility and ultimate authority for A.A. world services should always reside in the collective conscience of our whole Fellowship.
Concept II: The General Service Conference of A.A. has become, for nearly every practical purpose, the active voice and the effective conscience of our whole Society in its world affairs.
Concept III: To insure effective leadership, we should endow each element of A.A. —the Conference, the General Service Board and its service corporations, staffs, committees, and executives—with a traditional "Right of Decision."
Concept IV: At all responsible levels, we ought to maintain a traditional "Right of Participation," allowing a voting representation in reasonable proportion to the responsibility that each must discharge.
Concept V: Throughout our structure, a traditional "Right of Appeal" ought to prevail, so that minority opinion will be heard and personal grievances receive careful consideration.
Concept Vl: The Conference recognizes that the chief initiative and active responsibility in most world service matters should be exercised by the trustee members of the Conference acting as the General Service Board.
Concept Vll: The Charter and Bylaws of the General Service Board are legal instruments, empowering the trustees to manage and conduct world service affairs. The Conference Charter is not a legal document; it relies upon tradition and the A.A. purse for final effectiveness.
Concept VIII: The trustees are the principal planners and administrators of overall policy and finance. They have custodial oversight of the separately incorporated and constantly active services, exercising this through their ability to elect all the directors of these entities.
Concept IX: Good service leadership at all levels is indispensable for our future functioning and safety. Primary world service leadership, once exercised by the founders, must necessarily be assumed by the trustees.
Concept X: Every service responsibility should be matched by an equal service authority, with the scope of such authority well defined.
Concept Xl: The trustees should always have the best possible committees, corporate service directors, executives, staffs, and consultants. Composition, qualifications, induction procedures, and rights and duties will always be matters of serious concern.
Concept Xll: The Conference shall observe the spirit of A.A. tradition, taking care that it never becomes the seat of perilous wealth or power; that sufficient operating funds and reserve be its prudent financial principle; that it place none of its members in a position of unqualified authority over others; that it reach all important decisions by discussion, vote, and, whenever possible, by substantial unanimity; that its actions never be personally punitive nor an incitement to public controversy; that it never perform acts of government, and that, like the Society it serves, it will always remain democratic in thought and action.
500
Some of us are too ________ to get better!
SELFISH