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%ACCEPTING JUDGEMENT 770305
Accepting a judgement against self often occasions
the internalization of whatever rejection of self is
implicit in that judgement. If the judgement involves a
rejection of essential aspects of self, acceptance of it
involves the fragmentation of self. The judges are likely
to point to the resulting breakdown of personal integrity
as confirming their judgement---that the condemned act,
thought, or feeling merited punishment by God through the
operation of divine moral law. Yet sin is occasioned more
by judgement --- than by actions judged worthy of
excommunication. Those who self-righteously work to
prevent sinful acts (Sin is alienation) through righteous
judgements, thereby promote the sin (alienation) which
occasions the acts which they condemn.
Those who personally accept imposed guilt and own it,
thereby so violate their own integrity --- as to bring to
pass the punishment predicted by their judges. Thus the
judgement operates as a self-fulfilling prophecy;
fulfilling the judgement, but not the selves. The selves
become the slaves of the judgements. Together the judges
and their accused work to realize their common vision of
the consequences of their respective actions. They choose
to fulfill their chosen vision---often because they fear
to realize their power to choose and to make-real
integrative alternative visions. They decide to live in
an objective reality over which they feel they have no
radical power---living as victims, rather than as
creators. To accept the power to change the nature of
reality is too frightening---and punishment for accepting
guilt is preferred. The security of punishment within a
known reality for which one is not responsible --- is less
frightening than the risk of freedom in a reality for
which one is responsible; but is seen only dimly, as face
to face in a dark mirror. To presume to have the power to
choose to be free to realize alternative integrative
realities---that makes self vulnerable to the risks of
pride and arrogance. As a result, self may---out of fear -
-- choose the security of false humility, and self-imposed
impotence. Accepting the judgement of others is promoted
by the adoption of an objective view of reality --- in
keeping with scientism's faith. Thus a blind faith in the
power of science to solve human problems --- tends to
promote the acceptance of the judgment of others. Science
does not value unique insights and experiences in the
reflexive realms of personal relationships.
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