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             %DANGEROUS WORDS THOUGHTS IMAGES IDEAS 870721

     Our parents and grandparents and their wise relatives
discovered  that there are words,  thoughts,   images  and
ideas  that are too dangerous to consider and share.    We
are  under  obligation to respect  their  discoveries  and
instructions to avoid such dangerous  realities  by always
putting them from our minds, and by making our children be
aware of the danger should our children slip and attend to
them in any way.   We must do so in  ways which  call  the
least attention to those dangerous realities.  We must not
point  out  the dangerous realities explicitly.   We  must
conceal   our  effort  to  prevent  them  from   receiving
attention.    It is best  to  discourage  any attention to
them.

     Children  are  very  dependent  upon  their  parents'
attention  and  care.   If we threaten  to  withhold  such
attention and  care when  our  children  threaten  to  pay
attention to dangerous words,  thoughts,  images and ideas
we  will  thereby  help  them  to  avoid  that  which   is
exceedingly  dangerous to give attention to.  We need only
let  our  children  know how threatened  we  feel  by  the
possibility  that they will play with the  most  dangerous
words, thoughts, images and ideas; then their sense of our
terror will guide them away from danger.  They will not be
threatened by the most dangerous words,  thoughts,  images
and ideas if they are not familiar with them, and are  not
tempted to give them attention.

     It is our responsibility to protect our children from
all danger;  and especially from the most dangerous words,
thoughts,   images and ideas.   We must repress any ideals
which would lead our children to give consideration to the
most  dangerous words and ideals. We  must make it evident
to  them  how dangerous  such ideals are by hinting at the
alienative  consequences of taking such ideals  seriously;
e.g.,   the ways  in which people who take them  seriously
fall out of fellowship  and  into bad ways which are to be
avoided at all cost.

     Some  foolish people believe that in heaven there are
no inhibitions to open and honest discussion of all words,
thoughts, images, ideas and ideals.  God is not so foolish
as  to fail  to  protect his children in heaven from  such
open and honest dialogue.

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