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                    %NATURE COMMUNITY ACCEPT REJECT 911222

     Our  nature and the natures of our communities depend
critically  upon the nature of the foci of our  acceptance
and/or rejection; what it is that we accept and/or reject.

     At  the same time our natures and the natures of  our
communities  depend critically upon the nature of  HOW  we
accept/reject that which we do accept/reject; and upon HOW
we reflect upon our acceptance/rejection in each  instance
This  includes  consideration  of what we  regard  as  the
essence  of acceptance/rejection;  our definitions of  the
word/concepts.

     WHAT do we accept/reject?

     1.  Our past histories and life stories.
     2.  Our presences in the present.
     3.  Our possible limited futures.
     4.  Our limits and limitations.
     5.  Our mistakes and imperfections.
     6.  The Consequences of our limits, mistakes and
   imperfections.
     7.  Our ideas, ideals and values.
     8.  Our perceptions, namings, descriptions, and
   communications.
     9.  Our desires and emotional responses.
    10.  Our cognitive responses to events and
   communications.

     HOW   do   we   accept/reject  that   which   we   do
accept/reject?

     1.  Openly   and   honestly;   or   collusively   and
addictively?
     2.  Explicitly or only implicitly?
     3.  Individualisticly and/or communally?
     4.  With an emphasis upon approval, or not?
     5.  Fearfully, hopefully, confidently, expectantly?
     6.  Manipulatively, coercively, violently?
     7.  Humbly, ostentatiously, pretentiously?
     8.  With clarity or with confusion?
     9.  With passion or indifferently?
    10.  Mechanically or responsively?

     The  natures  of our lives and  relationships  depend
critically  upon  the combinations of foci and manners  of
our acceptances/rejections.  We need to give consideration
to  the  many combinations of our foci and manners of  our
acceptances/rejections   which  so  (and  do  not)    play
recognized  roles in determining the natures of our  lives
and   relationships.    Such  considerations  will  entail
reflexive,  rather than scientific considerations;  due to
the natures of reflexive and scientific considerations  in
relation to the nature of the issues articulated here.

     How  well we give consideration to these issues  will
depend   upon  how  well  we  transcend  our   collusions,
addictions and codependencies;  and vice versa.   How well
(healthy/diseased)   we  are/become will depend  upon  how
well/extensively we recognize, name, describe, articulate,
share,   accept/reject  and  discuss (if  at  all)   these
reflexive issues.  Our integrity and/or disintegration are
at stake.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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