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  %IMAGINATION CREATIVITY COOPERATION ADDICT HONEST 891219

     Imagination  is the root of creativity.   Imaginative
people  can  pretend that things might be other than  they
already  are,   and so can dream new dreams of how  things
might be better.  Through cooperation such creative people
can  cause things to become other than they are now,   and
thereby improve the lot of mankind.

     Addicts  are  imaginative  people  who  pretend  that
things  are other than they really are,  but they are  not
rooted  in  any dedication to truth and honesty.   Addicts
cooperate  in their pretense that they are not  repeatedly
making  the same mistakes over and over.  They enlist  the
cooperation of their codependents in their pretense,   and
so make things to appear to be other than they really are;
but  their cooperation does not succeed in causing  things
to become truly other than they are now,  and so they lead
others  into  disintegration,  not  towards  personal  and
communal integrity.

     Imagination,   creativity  and  cooperation  can   be
virtues  so  long as they are embodied in people  who  are
dedicated  to truth,  honesty,  and the promotion of  both
personal and communal integrity. Imagination,  creativity,
pretending,   and cooperation can become curses when  they
are  embodied  in  the  collusive  games  of  mutual  self
deception of addicts and their faithful codependents.

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