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  %FOUNDATION SATISFACTION HONEST INTEGRITY MISLEAD 890909

     The   foundation  for  building  with  personal   and
communal  integrity  is  an open  recognition  that  those
values   and  ideals  which  lead  us  towards  misleading
behavior  patterns are not satisfactory;  literally do not
satisfy.   Being committed to such misleading values leads
us to dissatisfaction.  A  change from dissatisfaction  to
satisfaction  must  therefore  involve  a  change  in  our
leading  values;  the values which we regard as most basic
and  most  important.   This amounts to a  change  in  our
conception of the nature of the God we serve,  the gods we
serve; or a change in our choice of which god to serve. We
cannot  achieve  satisfaction by serving false  gods  that
lead  us  into misleading behavior patterns which are  not
satisfactory; literally do not satisfy.

     We  cannot be true to our real nature  while  serving
false  gods.   False  gods lead  us  into  false  behavior
patterns which are not satisfying.  Misleading behavior is
not  the  result  of faulty technology  in  the  sense  of
inadequate technology.  Misleading behavior is the  result
of  faulty  technology in the sense of  false  technology;
i.e.,   "technology"   which in a false and dishonest  way
appears to be technology by being masked to appear like it
was only technology. When we value manipulative techniques
by  which  we try to achieve what we want,  more  than  we
value (integrity and honesty);  we are then mislead by the
techniques which we value. Such techniques have become our
gods and we disintegrate because of our idolatrous worship
of manipulative techniques which lead us into coercive and
violent relationships.

     While  we are worshipping our manipulative techniques
in   the   hopes  of  achieving  our  selfish   goals   in
satisfactory  ways,  we cannot at the same time be  honest
with   ourselves  or  each  other  about   our   feelings,
perceptions,  fears,  etc.  We cannot know the truth about
ourselves,   which we need to know to make wise decisions.
We  cannot  reflect upon what we are  doing  to  ourselves
through our manipulative behaviors, for we pretend that we
are being objective in our manipulations.  When the object
of  our  manipulative  techniques includes  those  persons
about  whom  we care most,  we cannot at the same time  be
objective,   and we are prone to disintegrate in collusive
games  of mutual self deception regarding what it is  that
we worship,  and what it is that we are doing.  Scientific
objectivity is an unsatisfactory god.

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