More About Alcoholism
- In Chapter 2, There Is A Solution, what was the detailed solution to alcoholism?
- Read Chapter 3, More About Alcoholism.
- Could you consistently control and enjoy your drinking?
- Have you been obsessed about trying to prove yourself not alcoholic or a person who simply needed to do a better job of drink management?
- Define the word “concede”.
- Have you “conceded” to your innermost self that you are alcoholic?
- What does the phrase “ability to control our drinking” mean?
- What specifically does that look like?
- What is a “real” alcoholic?
- Have you tried any of the methods to control your drinking on the page 31 list?
- What other methods, if any, did you try?
- Why would Bill and the first 100 members encourage you to try some controlled drinking?
- Have you been able to control your drinking for long after a period of sobriety?
- What does this say about you and the malady of alcoholism?
- What do you think of the story about the “man of thirty”?
- Will a period of sobriety change the truth contained in the phrase, “Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic.”?
- Does age or gender play a role in alcoholism?
- What is the baffling feature of alcoholism?
- Describe the crux of the problem, as stated in the Big Book.
- Put this into your own terms through your own experience.
- What do you think these members told “Jim“, when the Big Book says, “We told him what we knew of alcoholism and the answer we had found.”?
- What does this phrase mean, “He made a beginning.”?
- Have you ever made “a beginning” before?
- How many “beginnings” have you made?
- Did they work? If so, why? If not, why not?
- What did “Jim” not do, after his “beginning”?
- What is the Big Book’s definition of “insanity”?
- Have you ever gone out deliberately to get drunk?
- Does the “jaywalking” story relate to your personal experience with alcohol? If so, in what way?
- Are you thinking, “Yes, what you tell us is true, but it doesn’t fully apply. We admit… Thanks for the information.”?
- Why will “self-knowledge” not work?
- What problem did “Fred” have that lead him back to the drink?
- In the hospital two members of Alcoholics Anonymous came to see “Fred“. What two things did they outline?
- How are they different?
- Describe each of the two things in your own words.
- “Fred” makes the statement that “spiritual principles would solve all of my problems.” Why do you think “Fred” believes that?
- Do you believe that? Why or why not?
- What are “spiritual principles”?
- Do you think it’s “possible” that spiritual principles could solve “all” of your problems?
- Even if you do not believe or are skeptical that spiritual principles could solve all of your problems, are you willing to try?
- In closing, a physician (Dr. Percy Poliak) make a statement that, in his opinion, two of these men were “100% hopeless apart from divine help” and “For most cases, there is virtually no other option.” How do you fell about a medical doctor making that claim?
- How does this relate to your personal experience with your alcoholism?
- Define the word, “effective”.
- Where must our defense come from?
- Do you believe the last paragraph pertains to you?
**Big Book Study: Chapter 4: We Agnostics
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