This is http://www.essayz.com/a9106292.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %EVIL MESSAGE ALIENATION CARE DIFFERENCE RIGHT 910629 Evil messages are messages which generate alienation. Evil messages are usually not stated in overt verbal language, but the following overt verbal statements suggest the character of the content of many evil messages which are all too common in the absence of personal and communal integrity. 1.A I don't care and don't want to know what you feel like, experience, know, believe, need or want. 1.B. It doesn't make any difference to me or to my friends what you feel like, experience, know, believe, need or want. 1.C. You have no right to impose on anybody else your concern about what you feel like, experience, know, believe, need or want. 2.A. All that matters to me and to my powerful respectable friends is what we feel like, experience, know, believe, need or want. 2.B. All that makes any real difference in the real world is what we feel like, experience, know, believe, need or want. 2.C. We have the right to impose on everybody else our concerns about what we fell like, experience, know, believe, need and want. 3.A. If you want to avoid punishment you had better focus a large portion of your efforts, resources and creativity in attending to our feelings, likes, experiences, knowledge, beliefs, needs and wants. 3.B. If you want to get from us jobs, power, influence, money, favorable attention, affection, sex, or any other good benefit; you had better focus a large portion of your efforts, resources and creativity in attending to our feelings, likes, experiences, knowledge, beliefs, needs and wants. Evil messages undermine the possibility of open and honest dialogue, through the abuse of tools in efforts to coercively manipulate people into conformity. Evil messages implicitly say that open and honest dialogue is not important, and that some form of conformity is of ultimate importance. Evil messages say that personal and communal integrity are not important; and that some impersonal person(s), system(s), abstraction(s), goal(s), principle(s), object(s), or some other focus/foci of possible attention is/are of ultimate importance. The tools which are abused in delivering evil messages include: 1. bombs, airplanes, missiles, guns 2. prisons and executioners 3. judicial procedures 4. legal suits 5. physical violence and abuse 6. psychological violence and abuse 7. lies and deception 8. secrecy 9. exclusive activities 10. excommunication, rejection, shunning 11. conditional love, affection & sex 12. conditional acceptance & rewards 13. money, resources, rights, privileges The above are not all essentially evil tools, but all of the above do get abused as tools in delivering evil message. Evil messages are messages which generate alienation. Evil messages are usually not stated in overt verbal language, but the above overt verbal statements suggest the character of the content of many evil messages which are all too common in the absence of personal and communal integrity. Evil messages pass between members of a community who abuse their powers. Evil messages also pass between seats of power within the individual members of a community. Humans often internalize conflicting agendas which do not demonstrate respect for each other, or for the body and the physical needs of the human(s) within which they are embodied. Such internalized realities have been called demons. They conflict with each other and undermine the integrity of the person(s) and/or community(ies) which embodies them. Evil messages pass between demons which are internalized in our bodies and/or communities. In order to promote both personal and communal integrity we need to better understand and articulate the dynamic ways in which evil messages threaten our personal and communal integrity. It is helpful to recognize that there are important differences between attributing evil to: 1. Things 2. People 3. Messages 4. Relationships There are more dangers is attributing evil to things and people than, to messages and relationships; for evil has more to do with the quality of messages and relationships, than with individual things or persons. It is prejudicial and dangerous to fall into a pattern of attributing evil to particular kinds of things, people and activities; without careful consideration of the quality, honesty, and integrity of the messages and relationships in each unique situation where they are encountered. It is important to distinguish between what evil may honestly be attributed to in many instances, and what evil may not honestly be attributed to in most instance. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================