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  %PERSONAL COMMUNAL OPEN HONEST ATTITUDE INTEGRITY 881223

     The     attitudes    of   a    community    regarding
communications  lead  to personal and communal  integrity;
or to personal and communal disintegration.

     The    attitudes   of a community are the  habits  of
mind and heart of the members of the community,   both  as
individuals   and collectively as members of the community
as a whole, and as its sub-cultures.

     The essential  attitudes of a community  pertain   to
openness  and  honesty of communication;   open  minds and
hearts to listen and to offer intellectual and   emotional
perceptions   related to personal and communal experiences
and integrity.

     The attitudes  of a community lead to the opening  up
or the closing  down  of  channels of communication as the
primary response  to  the  perception   of   predicaments,
dilemmas, tragedies and problems.

     If  the attitudes of a community lead to closing down
channels of communication, the community disintegrates.

     If  the attitudes of a community lead to opening   up
of channels of communication,    the community enjoys both
personal and communal integrity.

     It all  depends upon the habits of mind and heart  of
individuals  and corporate groups together,   individually
and through  interactions between individuals and groups.

     The attitudes  of a community  are  reflexive,    not
objective.     The  attitudes  of a community  can  not be
controlled as objective objects can be controlled.

     Included in  the  attitudes of a community  are   the
habits   of minds and hearts reflecting upon the attitudes
of the  community;    and what should  be  done  regarding
dialogue  within the context  of troublesome predicaments,
dilemmas, tragedies, and problems.

     Attitudes  which lead to reduction of dialogue   lead
to  personal and communal disintegration.    The integrity
of  a community  and  its members depends upon  open   and
honest communications.    Attitudes  which  lead to closed
and misleading communications lead to disintegration.

     Attitudes  which  lead  to  more  open  and    honest
dialogue   lead to the enjoyment of personal and  communal
integrity.

     The amount  of openness and honesty in dialogue   can
not     be    used    as   a    manipulative    tool    in
controlling integrity  in  integrative  ways.     Attempts
to  control through  threats of reduction of  openness and
honesty   of  dialogue     lead      to    disintegration.
It    is systematically  absurd   to  talk of attempts  to
control  through   threats  of  increasing   openness  and
honesty    of  dialogue;       increased  openness     and
honesty  undermines attempts   to  control.    Integrative
control  cannot    be achieved through  threats to control
openness and  honesty of dialogue.

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