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We admit we are powerless over
our Card dependencies and that our lives have become unmanageable. |
| 2. |
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We came to believe that Card
could restore us to sanity. |
| 3. |
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We made a decision to turn our
will and our lives over to the care of Card. |
| 4. |
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Made a searching and fearless
moral inventory of ourselves and our OSC libraries. Made sure we had everything he has
ever written. |
| 5. |
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We admitted to Card, to
ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. We admitted that we
once had a less-than- flattering thought about something The Great Man had written. |
| 6. |
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We were entirely ready to have
Card remove all these defects of character. |
| 7. |
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Humbly asked Card to remove our
shortcomings. |
| 8. |
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We made a list of all
persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all. Read and memorized A
Storyteller In Zion and the OSC List
Netiquette. |
| 9. |
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Made direct amends to such
people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. Wrote OSC a
personal note apologizing for the offense in Step #5. |
| 10. |
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We continued to take personal
inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it. Bought every new OSC in hardcover
on the day of release. |
| 11. |
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We sought through reading and
meditation to improve our conscious contact with Card, as revealed through the persons of
Ender, Alvin Maker, Moses, Nafai, et al, seeking only for the knowledge of Card's will for
us and the power to carry that out. |
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Having had a Card Awakening as a
result of these steps, which is the reawakening of the joy of reading in our lives, we try
to carry this message to others (made sure we always have at least 5 copies of Ender's
Game on hand to give away) and to practice these Cardian principles in all our
affairs. |
