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b_b  ·  2379 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Inside AA with Tacocat: The Pre History of Alcoholics Anonymous

    He knows he needs to help other alcoholics in order to help himself...

Is this a common feature among today's devotees? I feel like I've met a few people who wouldn't have an identity if not for dedicating themselves as sponsors. But I know so little that I don't know if that's a stupid question.





tacocat  ·  2379 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's the 12th step

b_b  ·  2379 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Like I said, didn't know if it was a dumb question.

tacocat  ·  2379 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Not that I haven't written long properly punctuated replies on my phone before but I guess I'm not in the mood right now. It wasn't a dumb question it just had a really easy answer. Here are the steps:

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.