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     We cannot trust our own deepest desires,   instincts,
feelings,  and emotions---that is the hidden message which
is  given  to us by legalists who seek to help us  protect
ourselves from our deepest selves.   We are asked to  have
faith  in (loyalty to)  their legal rules which will  help
keep us from respecting  our  deepest desires,  instincts,
feelings,  and emotions---and so act in ways which are not
in  our best interest.   We are asked to replace our trust
in  our  own unique selves, with a trust in a standardized
"transcendent"   set of rules which are presumed to  serve
the  best  interests  of all kinds  of  different  people.
Needless  to  say,   the  legalists are  preoccupied  with
proving  that their rules and laws are needed,  necessary,
required.

     To prove that the legalists'  rules are needed it  is
necessary  to have people break those rules to  illustrate
that  breaking  them results in  dire  consequences.    In
strange  ways some people are chosen to play this role  of
validating the need for legalists'  rules.  Ostensibly the
validation  process proves that the dire consequences  are
the  natural  results of violating the legalists'   rules,
which  are  ostensible  God's  rules.   The  test  of  the
hypothesis  is not,  however,  carried out in an  unbiased
laboratory.    Those who manage the test have an  ultimate
preoccupation with proving that their hypothesis is valid,
that the violation of the legalists'  rules  leads to dire
consequences "in a natural way."   Thus it is essential to
guarantee that dire consequences do follow, and to obscure
the way by which it is arranged that dire  consequences do
follow.  How is that done?

     Via collusions people are chosen and cast in the role
of  "exemplary devils",  people who are so perverse as  to
violate the legalists' rules---and "naturally"  suffer the
consequences.  Who are chosen?  Those who most clearly see
what the legalists are doing, usually see them through the
eyes  of love,  and thereby threaten the scheme  by  which
legalists  might  prove their hypothesis.   The  legalists
through  fear  of such lovers cast them in  the  roles  of
"exemplary devils".    When so cast, such people may  lose
faith  in  themselves without at the  same  time  becoming
faithful (loyal)  to the legalists' rules.   They are thus
"set  up"  to break the rules without the faith needed  to
transcend  the  script which requires them to  suffer  the
dire consequences of violating the legalists' rules.  They
become "exemplary devils" and are crucified.

                                                                                                                               
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