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  %FREEDOM SPEECH PRESS COMMUNICATE CONTROL MEANING 901009

     Integrative communication depends upon  communicators
understanding that in reality what is communicated depends
just  as  much on the receiver as upon the sender  of  the
communication. The meaning of a communication is not fully
defined by the sender. The meaning is defined just as much
by the receiver who interprets the meanings of the symbols
used;   as by the sender who sends the symbols,   signals,
signs, gestures, words, notes, etc.

     It  is not helpful for an addictive person  to  claim
that   another  person  sent  a  message  of  unacceptable
meaning,   when in fact the meaning of the message depends
just  as much upon the interpretation given to it  by  the
addictive person, as upon the symbols chosen by the sender
of the message.

     The meaning of a message as intended by the sender of
the  message is not clear to the receiver and  interpreter
of the message until the receiver and the sender both have
gotten  to know each other and trust each other.  Dialogue
about  each  other  and  the context  of  the  message  is
essential  for  both to discover the real meaning  of  the
message. Each must listen carefully and sympathetically to
the  other,  before each can understand what  meaning  was
communicated by the message as both sent and received.

     In  the light of the above it is important to  defend
everyone's freedom of speech,  press,  assembly and  other
rights  to communicate freely and openly with a desire  to
understand  the honest truth.  Any attempt to control  the
content  or  meaning of communications is likely  to  lead
towards dishonest and misleading communication because  of
natural  attempts to avoid manipulative efforts by addicts
and  their  codependent supporters  to  control  thoughts,
perceptions, feelings, desires, and behaviors.

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