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  %DISHONEST HUMAN LIMITS TIME ENERGY EXPECT INTENT 900321

     Much  of  human  dishonesty  has  to  do  with  being
dishonest  about human limits as regards:  time,   energy,
resources,  intentions,  expectations,  promises,   money,
lifetime, knowledge, control, technology and confidence.

     People who are playing collusive games of mutual self
deception  are  in tension as they pretend to be  able  to
transcend  these various kinds of human limits.   There is
tension  even  if the pretense is only  internal  with  no
inter-personal dishonesty.   There is greater tension when
the  tension  pertains  to  trying  to  maintain  external
appearances of integrity,  when  in fact there is internal
disintegration.

     Much energy is wasted pretending that it is  possible
to  do more than can be done in the limited time available
with the limited energy available.

     Good intentions do not always lead to accomplishments
and  the fulfillment of expectations.   Promises  made  to
self  and/or  other without due regard for  present  human
limitations cannot be fulfilled,  and there is  tension as
the  reality  of  nonfulfillment  comes  closer  to  being
undeniably evident.

     When planning and budgets get out of balance there is
increased   tension  as  the  game  of   pretending   that
everything can be paid for runs to its disintegrative end.
Dishonesty   about   limited   financial   resources   and
unbalanced  trade relationships generates tension  in  the
efforts  to maintain dishonest appearances in the face  of
mounting evidence that dishonesty is being practiced.

     People  often refuse to deal honestly with the  facts
of life pertaining to the beginning of life and the ending
of life.  There is much dishonesty about sexuality, sexual
diseases,  unhealthy sexual relationships,  sex education,
pregnancy  and  abortion:   as  regards  the  beginning of
individual  lives.    There is also much dishonesty  about
declining  human  vitality,   terminal illness, preventing
death,   postponing death,  accepting death,  and  how  we
regard people who have died.  In all such dishonesty there
is tension between what it  true  and what is pretended to
be true.   Such tension generates dis-ease  and many forms
of disease in traditional medical terms.

     Many  people  pretend  to be able  to  do  more  with
knowledge than can be done with knowledge;  and pretend to
know more with greater confidence than the facts  warrant.
Often  people dishonestly pretend that their knowledge and
techniques  can cope in healthy ways with  dilemmas  which
are   not technical problems and permit no solution  based
upon  knowledge and technology.   Such pretense  generates
tension  and  disease as the tension is  increased between
the truth and the artificially sustained appearance.   The
pretense  is  a pretense of transcending human  limits  in
ways which cannot occur.

     Healthy living involves accepting the reality of real
human limits and engaging in open and honest relationships
within   the  context  of  real  limits.    Pretending  to
transcend  limits  does  not offer  any  true  promise  of
healthy fulfillment.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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