As usual, always worthy of consideration, any day, any time, imho.
From Silkworth.net;
Tradition Eleven: Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.

Do I sometimes promote AA so fanatically that I make it seem unattractive?
Am I always careful to keep the confidences reposed in me as an AA member?
Am I careful about throwing AA names around – even within the Fellowship?
Am I ashamed of being a recovered, or recovering, alcoholic?
What would AA be like if we were not guided by the ideas in Tradition Eleven? …read more

The Eleventh Tradition of Alcoholics Anonymous
Certainly we can all agree that there is no controversy surrounding this Tradition just like there is no controversy about “Conference Approved Literature” right?
Well, I thought it would be interesting to hear what the moderator at the AA History Lovers Group at Yahoo! has to say regarding “Attraction Rather Than Promotion;”
‘Might I say that Tradition Eleven, which says that “Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion,” is talking about maintaining PERSONAL ANONYMITY in ads and posters and so on.
It’s not saying you can’t do it, just that you should not put …read more

My first thoughts subsequent to deciding on a title for this are…
For those profundity pushers who offer newcomers this phrase “do the right thing and the right thing will happen,” I want to say – for who? Because it is my experience that it is a matter of perspective whether this will hold true for you.
It might be that if you do the right thing, the right thing will happen – for someone else! The trap is coming to believe that if you do the right thing, the right thing will happen for you!
For ex., my biggest challenge personally – …read more

“The need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever.”
Thank God Rick T. taught me one of life’s simple realities I had not learned, for whatever reason. He made the simple statement that each one of us has our own perception of reality. That your perception of reality and my perception of reality often would not match.
Since God graced me with sobriety I have been given many additional gifts. One of them is that my perception of reality has equality as its foundation. There are times when this gift turns to frustration …read more

YET = You’re Eligible Too
From page 91 in The Language of the Heart, written by Bill W. in October, 1948, about “Tradition Eleven”;
“Providence has been looking after the public relations of Alcoholics Anonymous. It can scarcely have been otherwise. Though we are more than a dozen years old, hardly a syllable of criticism or ridicule has ever been spoken of AA. Somehow we have been spared all the pains of medical or religious controversy and we have good friends both wet and dry, right and left. Like most societies, we are sometimes scandalous – but never yet in public. From …read more

From “Language Of The Heart,” written in August, 1946,
“Who Is A Member Of Alcoholics Anonymous?”
How did they/do we, handle someone who is drunk at a meeting?
“If a member persists in coming to meetings drunk he may be led outside; we may ask someone to take him away. But in most groups he can come back next day, if sober. Though he may be thrown out of a club, nobody thinks of throwing him out of AA. He is a member as long as he says he is. While this broad concept of AA membership is not yet unanimous, it does …read more

From the AA pamphlet “How AA Members Cooperate With Professionals”

Page 10 – #7; “As we mature in A.A., we generally become less fearful and rigid.”
I think this is a fine example of the debunking of a general, societal attitude that AA “thinks” it is the end all, be all to recovery. It says: