GENERAL
What is the only requirement for AA membership?
Bonus Q: what does the Tradition actually say in LONG FORM?
What is “a desire to stop drinking”
The action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an ___
Allergy
What novel idea did Ebby suggest to Bill?
What is "Why don't you choose your own conception of God?"
The tremendous fact for every one of us is that we have discovered what?
What is “a common solution.”
What is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker?
What is “he will control and enjoy his drinking”
We of AA, are more than 100 men and women who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of ____ ____ ____
What are “mind and body”
Men and women drink essentially because they like what?
What is ”the effect produced by alcohol”
Liquor ceased to be a luxury; it became a _______
What is “necessity”
Therefore, the main problem of the alcoholic centers in his what?
What is "mind"
What do we have to fully concede to our innermost selves
What is “that we were alcoholics”
What do we share in meetings?
What is “Experience, strength and hope”
What seldom suffices?
What is “frothy emotional appeal”
Faith has to work twenty-four hours a day in and through us, or what?
What is “we perish.”
The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost what?
What is "the power of choice in drink.”
Over any considerable period we get what?
What is “worse, never better.”
What is our primary purpose?
What Is “to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety”
There is little hope for recovery unless an alcoholic can experience what?
What is “an entire psychic change”
What cathedral did Bill visit in England?
What is “Winchester”
If you are as seriously alcoholic as we were, we believe there is no what?
What is “middle-of-the-road solution.”
1) What was the name of the man who mixed whiskey with milk?
2) Our behavior is as absurd and incomprehensible with respect to the first drink as that of an individual with a passion, say, for what?
1) What is “Jim”
2) Jaywalking
All these classification of alcoholics, and many others, have one symptom in common: they cannot start drinking without developing the phenomenon of craving.
Name classifications
1) psychopaths who are emotionally unstable. We are all familiar with this type. They are always "going on the wagon for keeps." They are over-remorseful and make many resolutions, but never a decision.
2) There is the type of man who is unwilling to admit that he cannot take a drink. He plans various ways of drinking. He changes his brand or his environment.
3) There is the type who always believes that after being entirely free from alcohol for a period of time he can take a drink without danger.
4) There is the manic-depressive type, who is, perhaps, the least understood by his friends, and about whom a whole chapter could be written.
5) Then there are types entirely normal in every respect except in the effect alcohol has upon them. They are often able, intelligent, friendly people.
The message that can interest and hold alcoholics must have what?
What is “depth and weight”
For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through what?
What is “work and self sacrifice for others”
"There is a solution. Almost none of us liked ..." WHAT?
"But we saw it ..."
WHAT ?
BB p 25
he self-searching, the leveling of our pride, the confession of shortcomings which the process requires for its successful consummation.
it really worked in others, and we had come to believe in the hopelessness and futility of life as we had been living it. When, therefore, we were approached by those in whom the problem had been solved, there was nothing left for us but to pick up the simple kit of spiritual tools laid at our feet. We have found much of heaven and we have been rocketed into a fourth dimension of existence of which we had not even dreamed.
What are the methods we have tried (to quit drinking per BB on p31)
Drinking beer only, limiting the number of drinks, never drinking alone, never drinking in the morning, drinking only at home, never having it in the house, never drinking during business hours, drinking only at parties, switching from scotch to brandy, drinking only natural wines, agreeing to resign if ever drunk on the job, taking a trip, not taking a trip, swearing off forever (with and without a solemn oath), taking more physical exercise, reading inspirational books, going to health farms and sanitariums, accepting voluntary commitment to asylums - we could increase the list ad infinitum.