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   %COMPULSIVE FANATICAL FUNDAMENTALIST OBJECTIVITY+920905
   %SHIFT PARADIGM GOD ULTIMATE CONCERN IDEAL VALUE 920905

     When one discovers that one's paradigm, god, ultimate
concerns,   ideals,   and values are in fact  leading  and
motivating one toward  attitudes,   assumptions,  beliefs,
reasoning,   perceptions,   decisions  and  actions  which
undermine personal and communal integrity----then it is  a
time  for the shaking of the foundations of one's  courage
to  be;  and to be willing to become a new being with fear
and trembling. (See books by Paul Tillich.)

     It  is  exceedingly  hard for  us  to  transcend  our
ultimate concerns---especially when our ultimate  concerns
are the cause of our personal and communal disintegration.
It  takes  a level of courage and honesty which is  beyond
human power;  to  accept  such  a conversion,  revelation,
redemption,   salvation and transformation---so most  wise
peoples  have  developed  traditions  of  attributing  the
source  of  such  courage  and  honesty  to  powers  which
transcend human understanding,  manipulation  and control.
It is disintegrative to presume  to  make claims which run
fundamentally  counter to such wise traditions.  In  their
arrogance those who make such claims blind themselves  and
others.

     No  matter  how  confident we are that  our  ultimate
concerns  are appropriate,  we need to keep in touch  with
the realities of our daily experiences;  and the realities
of  the daily experiences of the least among our  brothers
and sisters on planet earth.  If we are out of touch  with
such  realities,  we cannot tell when we have  lost  touch
with the truths which we presume to represent. When we are
out  of  touch  with such truths,  we are likely  to  play
collusive  games  of mutual self deception which  lead  to
personal and communal  disintegration.   Then our ultimate
concern  should  be  to regain touch with  reality,   with
truth,  and with the  least of our brothers and sisters on
planet earth.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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