Newcomer
What is the only requirement for AA membership?
a) a desire to stop drinking
b) it's for those who suffer from alcoholism
c) to share your experience, strength and hope
d) a and b
d) a and b
The action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an ___
Allergy
What did not get Bill sober?
getting medical/psychiatric help at hospital
fear
knowledge
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”
What is the main purpose of the big book
"To show other alcoholics precisely how we have RECOVERED"
Manual for the 12 steps
Men and women drink essentially because they like what?
What is ”the effect produced by alcohol”
Faith has to work twenty-four hours a day in and through us, or what?
What is “we perish.”
Therefore, the main problem of the alcoholic centers in his what?
What is "mind"
Over any considerable period we get what?
What is “worse, never better.”
from the book: "If that be the case (your are alcoholic) your are probably suffering from an illness which ONLY a ______ _______ will conquer"
Spiritual Experience
What seldom suffices?
What is “frothy emotional appeal”
Liquor ceased to be a luxury; it became a _______
What is “necessity”
"We had but two alternatives:..........
What are the 2 alternatives for those that are "seriously alcoholic"
One was to go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of our intolerable situation as best we could; and the other, to accept spiritual help.
What do we have to fully concede to our innermost selves”
What is “that we were alcoholics”
From AA Preamble reading: What is AA primary purpose?
What Is “to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety”
The message that can interest and hold alcoholics must have what?
What is “depth and weight”
What novel idea did Ebby suggest to Bill?
What is "Why don't you choose your own conception of God?"
If you are as seriously alcoholic as we were, we believe there is no what?
What is “middle-of-the-road solution.”
The delusion that we are _____ _____ _____, or presently may be, has to be smashed.
we are like other people
What are we supposed to share in meetings?
a) our problems
b) where we are at on that day
c) Experience, strength and hope
Experience, strength and hope
There is little hope for recovery unless an alcoholic can experience what?
What is “an entire psychic change”
For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through what?
What is “work and self sacrifice for others”
The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost what?
What is "the power of choice in drink.”
"The alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental defense against the first drink.....His defense must come from a _______ _______.
Higher Power