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                %IMPORTANT PERCEPTIONS & STATEMENTS 860315

     Some perceptions  and statements are  more  important
than  are  others.    It  is  important  to  perceive  and
communicate differences in the importance of  our  various
perceptions and statements.   We do so via our perceptions
of  and  statements  about our  ideals,   values,   goals,
priorities,   assumptions,  transcendent beliefs,   hopes,
fears,  faith, etc.   Such perceptions and statements play
transcendent roles in guiding our decisions and actions in
personal   and   communal  behaviors;   both  formal   and
emotional.    Some of our most important  perceptions  and
statements  are not recognized as such because they are so
central  to  our  being  and  doing that it  is  close  to
impossible  to imagine taking seriously  contradictory  or
complementary perceptions and statements.

     Those  perceptions  and  statements  which  are  most
important  to  us  often  tend to dominate our  perceptual
framework and language; pushing aside contradictory and/or
complementary paradigms and language.   We tend to  regard
such   exclusivity  as  being  justified  by   the   great
importance   of   our  most  important   perceptions   and
affirmations;  being willing to sacrifice that which is of
lesser  importance  in  the service of that  which  is  of
greater importance.

     Such exclusivity dominates our lives and  communities
the absence of the important perception and affirmation of
the  centrality  of unity and integrity in maintaining the
coherent  viability  of our communities'   open and honest
communication---which serve  as  the  means of unification
and integration  of  our  communities  when disintegration
threatens them.  This important perception is often pushed
aside   in  the  name  of  serving  the  claims  of  other
perceptions and affirmation.  Such fanatical service leads
to  disintegration:    holy  wars,   rampant  nationalism,
infallible     doctrines,      nuclear     arms     races,
excommunications,   and  in  general  the   expansion   of
alienation  and communal disintegration---until what was a
community  becomes  an  arbitrary  collection  of   people
without-unity.

     These considerations are not scientific---because the
are inherently  self-referential.   Compulsively objective
people   are   not   qualified  to   contribute   to   the
transcendence  of disintegrative tendencies  because  they
are   trapped  by  their  paradigm  and  are  illustrating
disintegrative tendencies.

                                                                                                                               
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