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                              %CONFESSIONS OF NEEDS 860416

     Usually confessions pertain to failures:  to conform,
or  to  desires to conform,  or to  desires  to appear  to
conform.

     People  confess misdeeds,   transgressions,   illegal
actions, etc. when they have failed to conform and wish to
return to conformation.

     People  confess  their convictions when they wish  to
affirm  their desire to conform (or appear to conform)  to
generally accepted beliefs, doctrines, etc.;  or when they
wish to get others to conform to (or appear to conform to)
generally accepted beliefs, doctrines, etc.

     Too often  people fail to  confess  their  legitimate
needs  which do not conform to generally accepted beliefs,
doctrines,  practices,   traditions,  etc.   Needs may  be
taboo,   in  violation  of collusive games of mutual  self
deception.   To confess  such needs openly and honestly is
to violate the taboos, to break the rules of the collusive
games of self deception.   According  to  such taboos  and
collusions  it is "in order"  to confess  the  misdeed  of
confessing the forbidden needs.   "Law and order" requires
such confessions.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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