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                       %BLOCKED INSTINCTIVE DESIRES 770514

     Tremendous  conflicts are occasioned by  attempts  to
block instinctive  desires.   Such desires  are  powerful.
They are  destructively blocked/repressed by agents who do
not understand the languages of instincts.   Blockages are
occasioned by attempts to classify instincts into good and
evil classifications.   Problems do not arise so much from
inappropriate  classifications,  as  from  presuming  that
making  classifications  in helpful.   Those  who  through
arrogance  are  so presumptuous as to pass  judgment  upon
God-given  instincts,   thereby  occasion  their  own  and
others'   expulsion  from  the Garden of  Eden  of  loving
relationships.  Such  arrogance  is usually characteristic
of those who presume  to  approach  existential situations
with full objectivity---not recognizing the essential ways
in which their presuppositions and judgments occasion  the
behavior  which  they  condemn.   They  do  not  have  the
objectivity to perceive that they  are not being objective
about  themselves---nor  do  they  have  the  humility  to
perceive the futility of their presumptuous venture.

     Loving  people  seek to facilitate the expression  of
powerful  instincts;  by providing role models of  how  to
give instincts helpful expression:

     by   providing   fail-safe  contexts  in   which   to
experiment and learn,

     by articulating insights  gained  in  confessions  of
their fulfillments/frustrations,

     by generating theoretical structures which reveal the
nature of humane relationships,

     by  loving  those  who suffer  because  of  misguided
instincts, by giving meaning to failures, etc.

     Facilitation of expression is  far  more helpful than
occasioning repression of diversion.

     Blocked instincts occasion conflict within,  between,
and among people.   The blockages are usually motivated by
fear  which may be cast out by love,  but which  may  also
inhibit   the   growth  of   love.     Blockages   inhibit
communication.    Love facilitates  communication.    Love
casts out fear.   Fear may inhibit love.   Instincts bring
people together, as does love.   Fear of the vulnerability
of  closeness keeps people apart.   Love prompts people to
take the risks involved in trust.   Fear prompts people to
take the risks involved in invulnerability,   manipulative
security,   and alienation.   Fear  occasions  existential
meaninglessness  and  death.   Love occasions  existential
fulfillment   and   life---which  builds  upon   the  firm
foundations  of those who suffer because they love so much
as to risk an ultimate dedication to openness and servant-
hood.
                                                                                                                               
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