Seaweed: Lazy Pescatarian

Smash: To break (something brittle) violently; to hit extremely hard.

"The delusion that we are like other people, or presently might be, has to be smashed."

Delusion:  A false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.

"This is a point we wish to emphasize and re-emphasize, to smash home upon our alcoholic readers as it has been revealed to us out of bitter experience."

Bitter: Harsh, piercing or stinging.

I have a tendency to just throw quotes and word definitions up there when I'm feeling lazy.  Actually, I do believe that the words in our literature are a mixture of relentless arguments among our early members and divine inspiration.  I think that they are there for a very specific reason.  And I say this as a dude who really doesn't buy into the idea that god visits some people and gives them and only them guidance.  Sure, some people are inspired and this is a spiritual gift but I choose to believe that divine intervention is accessible to all of us who are seeking a spiritual path.

"But the actual or potential alcoholic, with hardly an exception, will be absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of self-knowledge."

"We now see that when we began to drink deliberately, instead of casually, there was little serious or effective though during the period of premeditation of what the terrific consequences might be."