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%GOOD PEOPLE TRY CONTROL BAD EVIL REBELLION SINNERS 890705

     People who regard themselves as good people often try
to  control  other people whom they regard as bad or  evil
people.  Such good people assume that they have been given
the  responsibility  of  making other people  to  be  good
people, like they themselves are.

     Our  natural  response  to other people's attempts to
control  us is to rebel against their attempts to  control
us;   regardless of the specific direction of the attempts
to control. Such natural rebellion in response to attempts
to  control leads to confusion of natural consideration of
the consequences of choices among available  alternatives.
In  rebellion it is hard for us to do what is good for us.
Thus good people often make it difficult for us to  wisely
consider the alternatives which are open to us.

     Some  good  people  have  eaten of the fruit  of  the
tree  of the knowledge of good and evil,  and  presume  to
know  the  difference  between  good and  evil  for  other
persons.  Their presumptions lead to their alienation from
bad people,  and to the alienation of bad people from good
people.   Communication between good people and bad people
breaks down because of the presumption of the knowledge of
the  difference  between good and evil people by the  good
people.

     Good  people are rarely as aware of their  alienation
from  bad  people,   as  bad people  are  aware  of  their
alienation from good people. Good people pretend not to be
alienated, and see no need to do anything. Bad people know
they are alienated, but do not know what to do about it.

     Sinners  are  good people who have learned  to  admit
that  their  presumed knowledge of the difference  between
good  and evil people is alienative knowledge which is  of
no helpful value. Sinners know they prove to make mistakes
and  have learned to profit from the experiences to  which
their  mistakes have lead.  Sinners are humble people  who
seek  to  learn how to be themselves in  open  and  honest
communication  with all people,  and so learn  from  other
people's mistakes.

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