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   %DISHONEST PRETEND BEING YOURSELF DISINTEGRATION 890402

     It is dishonest to mislead people by pretending to be
other than who and what you really are.

     To  pretend  is to act "as if"  in  a  misleading and
dishonest way.

     To   so  pretend  leads  to  personal  and   communal
disintegration.

     It is dishonest to pretend that:

     You desire what you do not desire;  or do not  desire
what you do desire.

     You  do enjoy what you do not enjoy;  or do not enjoy
what you do enjoy.

     You do know what you do not know; or do not know what
you in fact do know.

     You do believe what you do not honestly  believe  and
trust in; or do not believe what you really do believe and
trust.

     You  do  not fear that which you really do fear;   or
that you do fear that which you do not fear.

     You  do trust people whom you really do not trust; or
that you do not trust people whom you really do trust.

     You  are not familiar with someone with whom you  are
familiar  and  intimate;   or that you  are  familiar  and
intimate  with someone with whom you are not familiar  and
intimate.

     You  can control something/someone that/whom you  can
not  control;   or  that  you are not  trying  to  control
something/someone that/whom you are trying to control.

     You have powers which you do not have; or that you do
not have powers which you do have.

     That  important  things  are  unimportant;   or  that
unimportant things are of great importance.

     That  limited resources are without limit;   or  that
resources which are not limited are in scarce supply.

     That  fantasies  which  cannot  be  realized  can  be
realized;   or that fantasies which can be realized cannot
be realized.

     Most  dishonesty does not reside in overt lying;   it
resides  in pretending in ways which are misleading,   and
which lead to personal and communal disintegration.

     The  community  which encourages these  subtle/hidden
forms  of dishonesty thereby undermines its own integrity,
its   own   unity,   and  sows  the  seeds  of   its   own
disintegration.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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