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          %TABOOS AGAINST EVIDENCE & REASONING LOVE 870330

     Collusions are reflexive systems  for defending games
of  mutual self deception against evidence  and  reasoning
which   is  love-grounded  in  personal   experience   and
dialogue.    Participants in collusions do not  appeal  to
personal  experience  and logically analyzed  evidence  in
free  and open discussion---to confirm the value of  their
way  of approaching situations.   They are not willing  to
openly  and  honestly  discuss  possible  alternatives  to
discover the most coherent and integrative ones.

     Participants in collusions act in ways to repress the
gathering  evidence and analytic skills which might expose
their  games of mutual self deception.   Their  lives  are
guided  by fear.   They are often addicted to one means or
another of defending themselves against what they fear due
to the ignorance which they maintain through their defense
of their collusion.

     People  who  are  addicted  to   alcohol,    tobacco,
caffeine,  drugs,  work,  food,  sex,  weapons,  etc.  are
participants  in collusive games of mutual self deception.
They do not seek unbiased evidence and experience in terms
of which to discover the truth.   The thing they fear most
is  the discovery of the truth that they are playing games
of  mutual  self deception,  because they are not familiar
with  the  realities  of   forgiveness,    reconciliation,
redemption,   and  love's  commitment to open  and  honest
dialogue  in  the  search for truths  which  reflect  upon
openly shared intimate experiences.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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