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      %PARADIGM CONTEXT MISUNDERSTAND WORDS ACTIONS 921005

     People  who are working within contrasting  paradigms
will often misunderstand each other's words,  actions, and
lack  of action.  Within one paradigm a word,  action,  or
lack  of  action  will  have one meaning  or  connotation.
Within a contrasting paradigm the same word,  action,   or
lack   of  action  will  have  a  different  meaning   and
connotation.   The two meanings can be so obvious  to  two
different  people that they cannot imagine that the  other
person assigns a different meaning. Thus they do not check
with each other as to what meanings they assign  to words,
actions,   or lacks of action;  and so misunderstand  each
other.  From  such misunderstandings  flow fears, threats,
defensiveness, manipulations, coercion, violence and  war.
It  is  dangerous  for  people  who  are  working   within
contrasting paradigms  to  neglect  to  seek to understand
their differences in sympathetic ways.

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