WAVE: Big Book Study with Corey Session Nine - We Agnostics Part 1

The Daily Ripples Podcast · Sep 28, 2026 · 42m · transcript

Corey moves into the chapter he calls one of the best pieces of writing in the whole book, and starts by breaking down the word itself, agnostic as simply not knowing, no shame attached. Working without a marked-up copy for once, he reads it clean and lets it stand on its own. The chapter's opening line lands hard: if you cannot quit entirely, or have little control once you start, the book says plainly, you are probably alcoholic. Not him saying it. The book saying it.

He walks the four things the text asks a reader to lay aside, bias, obstinacy, sensitiveness, and unreasoning prejudice, and…