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%JUDGMENT VS REPENTANCE VS RECONCILIATION 810202
To an "insider" a re-dedication to dominant
exclusive values (against which one has temporarily
rebelled) may appear to be repentance. Such pseudo-
repentance generally involves an alienative elitist
judgment against self, for some rebellion against the
dominant collusive values---and a re-affirmation of the
dichotomies which those values maintain. The pseudo
repentance thus obscures the sinful nature of the
repentance and of the values to which self returns. It is
a "repentance" which serves an evil collusion, and is not
really a repentance.
Real repentance promotes increased dialogue among all
selves---including among all of each person's selves.
Real repentance does not occasion any alienative judgments
of any kind. Those people who have really repented do not
regard themselves as an elite separated from those who
have not repented. Real repentance occasions
reconciliation rather than alienative judgments.
Real repentance is involved in the transcendence of
alienative dichotomies between misunderstanding cultures.
Pseudo-repentance is characteristic of the elitists who
make superficial attempts to transcend such dichotomies,
but end up re-dedicating themselves to their traditional
alienative values.
Collusions are challenged when people enter into
intimate relationships with people who transcend their own
collusions. Participants in collusions are prone to
"repent" from such intimate relationships when they become
fearful of the consequences of their lack of faith in
their collusion. They perceive themselves as unfaithful
to their collusions primary values and feel threatened by
the people who affirm their collusive primary values.
They feel insecure and unsure of their new visions, and
return to their old ways of feeling and thinking---
despite the dissatisfactions which they have experienced
due to them. They are threatened by the shaking of the
foundations of their old being and by the vision of their
potential new being, and do not have the courage to be new
beings in open and honest intimate relationships which are
free of depersonalizing fears.
One of the functions of a collusion is to make the
return of temporary rebels appear to be a kind of
repentance which is real. If it is real, it will promote
greater openness, honesty, freedom, integrity, and
dialogue.
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