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  %INTERNALIZE EXTERNAL OBJECT CONSCIENCE KNOW SELF 900405

     The  objectivists'  paradigm discounts  non-objective
knowledge.     According to their paradigm,  knowledge  of
self  which   is  not based  upon  objective  evidence  is
unreliable knowledge,  and should not be taken  seriously.
They  do  not make clear what objective knowledge  is  the
basis  of   their  judgement  that   non-objective   value
judgments   (including  their own)  should  not  be  taken
seriously.

     The advantage/disadvantage of the objectification  of
con-science   (conscience)   is  that  it  makes  for  the
internalization of  external  sources  of value judgments;
e.g.,  internalization of  the  values of  participants in
collusive addictions and codependent support networks.  If
people  are  taught not to trust their own feelings,  they
lose  touch  with themselves  and  become  purely  "other-
directed",   and  vulnerable   to  peer  pressures  within
addictive/codependent    networks    of    confused    co-
manipulators.

     People who have been objectified regard themselves as
objects bumping into each other in impersonal interactions
in  the  manner of billiard balls.    They react to   each
other rather than respond to each other.  There is nothing
personal  inside them which is present in a  personal  way
and capable of a personal response.   What is inside  them
is but an image of what is outside them;  it is not unique
and is free of any con-science, devoid of self-knowledge.

     Objectified  non-persons  do  not  hear  any   unique
internal  voice of conscience,  and instead hear only  the
echoes   of   voices   of  addicts'    and   codependents'
manipulations.  The Spirit of God has been stilled in them
and   they   hear  only  the  echoes   of   inter-personal
manipulations and coercions.    They are victims of  their
own  and  others'   attempts to be in control of self  and
others.    As  fearful victims  they  are  not  personally
responsive,   because they are always defensively reacting
to  each    other's   manipulations.      They   have   no
genuine  conscience,   because they are not  participating
honestly in authentic personal dialogue.

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