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 %ADDICT OBJECTIFICATION EXTERNALIZATION PROJECTION 900919

     Addicts  tend to project their difficulties onto  the
outside world;  blame others for their troubles,  and fail
to  recognize  the role which they themselves play in  how
"life"   treats  them.   Addicts spend  more  time  giving
attention  to  the  perceived  role  of  others  in  their
difficulties,   than they spend giving attention to  their
own  role  in  their difficulties.  This is  a  matter  of
emphasis;   a  sense of what is important and what is  not
important.

     Scientists focus their attention on objects which are
external  to  themselves  as  persons,   looking  for  the
explanation of all effects in impersonal objects which are
external   to  their  being  persons.   Scientists  rarely
recognize their own roles as participant observers in what
they perceive,  and in what life means to them. Scientists
spend  more time giving attention to  impersonal  objects,
than  they  spend giving attention to their own  roles  in
their  difficulties as persons in personal  relationships.
This is a matter of emphasis, a sense of what is important
and what is not important.

     Scientists  are similar to addicts in their  emphasis
upon  impersonal objects which are external to themselves.
They  are addicted to impersonal fixes,  differing only in
details.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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