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Let’s ask Bill W.

Have the Traditions been widely accepted?

Bill’s Answer

When they were first written in early 1946 as tentative guides to help us hang together and function, nobody paid any attention except a few “againers” who wrote me and asked what the hell they were about.

Nobody paid the slightest attention but little by little as these Traditions got around we had our clubhouse squabbles, our little rifts, this difficulty and that and it was found that the Traditions indeed did reflect experience and were guiding principles. So they took hold a little more and a little more so that today the average A.A. coming in the door learns at once what they’re about, about what kind of an outfit he has really landed in and by what principles his group and A.A. as a whole are governed. (Transcribed from tape, Fort Worth, TX, 1954)

Let’s ask Bill some more questions.
1 – The Disease Concept
2 – Mental Obsession
3 – How Does AA Work?
4 – A Continued Existence
5 – Early AA 12th Step
6 – What Happened to Ebby?
7 – Oxford Group Info
8 – Agnostics & God
9 – Medicine, Religion & AA
10 – Origins of the Traditions
11 – Still More Traditions Info
12 – General Service Conference
13 – AA & Other Agencies
14 – The 12 Concepts
15 – Remembering Our Early Friends
16 – Are Alcoholics “Different?”
17 – Is It All Bill Wilson’s Experience?
18 – “A Rapid Growth Problem?”
19 – Bill Wilson’s Spiritual Experience
20 – Early AA		 21 – Meet AA #3
22 – More Big Book Info
23 – St. Ignatius & The Steps
24 – Father Dowling’s Influence
25 – More on the Traditions
26 – GSO Financing
27 – AA Government?
28 – Drug Addicts & AA
29 – Right of Appeal
30 – Are Alcoholics “Neurotic?”
31 – What is Alcoholism?
32 – Is AA a Religion?
33 – What Is AA’s Success Rate?
34 – Carl Jung’s Contribution
35 – Ebby’s Message to Bill
36 – Clergy & AA
37 – AA and the Community
38 – Short GSO History
39 – The Rockefeller Connection
40 – The Three Legacies
41 – Drunks in AA Meetings?
 

 



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