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                      %WHOLESOME COMMUNAL REALITIES 860809

     Communal realities can not be created by  individuals
for  their own sense of self satisfaction.   Self-centered
motivations  will  not  lead the way to  genuine  communal
realities.   People  seeking to  achieve individualisticly
defined self salvation will not  achieve,   nor will  they
enjoy  communal integrity;  they  may fear  such integrity
even  as they think they are working  to  achieve  it  for
purposes of self salvation.

     It  is  impossible  to achieve  some  things with  an
inappropriate motivation,  even if the intention regarding
the nature of the achievement is well defined.  The person
who wants to  achieve superior humility  to be better than
other  people in the humility department will not  succeed
in being humble.   The individualists who want to  form  a
community of individualists which  is more coherent than a
community  of communally oriented people will not  succeed
in   proving  thereby  that  individualism  is  a   better
foundation   for  communal  cooperation  than   is   being
communally   oriented.     People  who  seek  to   achieve
righteousness via achieving self-righteousness will fail.

     Communal  realities  entail  wholesome  relationships
among  people  as  whole creatures  of  integrity.     Any
tendency towards partial relationships based upon parts of
individuals tend to disintegrate the community.  There are
disintegrative risks  in  relating in an isolated way upon
the   basis  of  rationality,   spirituality,   sexuality,
affection, economics, etc.   Partial relationships tend to
involve partiality and bias, they are not wholesome and so
tend   to  threaten  the  integrity  of   the   community.
Selfishness leads to disintegration because self people do
not seek to  promote  communal  integrity nor the personal
integrity of others;  their relationships are partial, not
wholesome.

     Wholesome people are attractive by  virtue  of  their
integrity.     Seeking  to  take  advantage  of  them   is
disintegrative and does violence to the  possibilities  of
wholesome  relationships with them.   That which the heart
seeks can not be gained by taking  advantage of  wholesome
people,   nor  by trying to imitate their behavior without
entering into wholesome relationships creating a wholesome
community.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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