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 %HOLY SCRIPTURE SAVIOR REVELATION GOD POWER ADDICT 920720

     Addictive people seek to be in control of much  which
they cannot control; and through collusive games of mutual
self  deception  they seek  to appear to be in control  of
much which they cannot control.

     Creative  people cannot be controlled and God  cannot
be controlled; but addicts seek to appear to be in control
of  creative  people,  and  to  inhibit  creative people's
reception of God's revelations.  It helps to have a set of
finite  rules,   regulations,  prohibitions,   and  truths
written  down and in terms of which to manipulate  people;
our  holy  scriptures which through appropriate  addictive
interpretations  may serve as the basis  for  manipulating
and controlling people.

     It is distressing to have around creative people  who
are  receiving  continuing  revelations from God  whom  we
cannot  control.   To  avoid such embarrassments  we  must
pretend  that revelations stopped at some distant time  in
the past,  and we must pretend that God does not have  the
power  to reveal to us any truths which are not  contained
in  our holy scriptures.  Otherwise,  how could we hope to
use  our finite scriptures as the basis  for  manipulating
and controlling others.

     It  would be distressing to discover in our midst any
person who was doing greater works and articulating deeper
truths  than are contained in our holy scriptures.  No one
can expect to exceed the works and truths which our savior
accomplished in the safe and distant past! We will be safe
in  our collusive games of mutual self deception  only  so
long as such great works and great truths are kept safe in
the distant past!

     Here  in the present there can be no essentially  new
revelations  of  God's truths which  would  undermine  our
collusive games of mutual self deception.  Any person  who
appears to have received such embarrassing truths must  be
discredited immediately, or we will be doomed!

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