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1. | Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon OA unity. | |
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For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority - a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern. |
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| 3. | The only requirement for OA membership is a desire to stop eating compulsively. | ||
| 4. | Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or OA as a whole. | ||
| 5. | Each group has but one primary purpose - to carry its message to the compulsive overeater who still suffers. | ||
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An OA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the OA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose. |
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| 7. | Every OA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions. | ||
| 8. | Overeaters Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers. | ||
| 9. | OA, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve. | ||
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Overeaters Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the OA name ought never be drawn into public controversy. |
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| 11. | Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, films, television, and other public media of communication | ||
| 12. | Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all these traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities. |
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