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   %BLAME OTHER OBJECT DEVIL ADDICT DISEASE PROJECT 920720

     In an addictive society we tend to project blame  for
imperfections,   mistakes,  faults,  failures,  and  other
embarrassments  outward;   for we do not know how to  deal
with reflexive realities which point to our need to change
our being,  attitudes,  thoughts,  perceptions, values and
ideals.   To  avoid change in ourselves we  project  blame
outward. The fault lies elsewhere.

     When we experience what we recognize as evil, we seek
to  project the blame for evil outward.  The cause of evil
must lie elsewhere.  Evil is caused by evil people who are
to  blame  for the evil which is in the world.   Our  only
problem is to recognize and deal with evil people in a way
which is appropriate to evil people. We seek to understand
and deal with evil people as a class of people who are led
by  the  most evil of all beings,  the devil.   We  become
confused and distressed when our logic turns  upon us  and
we conclude that we also are evil people!

     To  rid  the world of evil people we seek to  destroy
evil people with physical,  psychological,  economic,  and
spiritual  violence.   We call upon our god to join us  in
working to rid the world of evil people. We see our god as
the  supreme  commander in our holy  war  to  cleanse  the
universe  of  evil.   But  how are we  to  deal  with  our
conclusion that we are ourselves evil people?

     We  are confused.   We think that evil resides within
individual people. The nature of evil resides within human
relationships,   not within individual people.  It is  not
people   as   individuals  who  are  evil;   it   is   the
relationships  between  people  which are  evil  when  the
relationships    become   relationships   of    ignorance,
misunderstanding, alienation, and estrangement.

     In  our  ignorance and confusion we seek  to  control
evil  people through manipulations,  violence,  rejection,
banishment,   excommunication,  shunning and in other ways
which increase our alienation.  In our efforts to  control
evil people we engender relationships which are evil;  and
which heighten our perception of evil within other  people
as  individuals.   Our  paradigm of the nature of evil  is
confused  because  of our collusive games of  mutual  self
deception.   We do not permit ourselves to know the  truth
about  ourselves,   each  other,   and  about  our  broken
relationships.   We try to control ourselves,  each other,
and  our  broken  relationships;  and  so  accentuate  the
aspects  of  our  relationships which are the  essence  of
evil.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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