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  %DISHONEST CONVICTION CONFORMITY RITUAL TRADITION 921227

     In  seeking  to  be accepted by coercive  people  who
expect conformity we may slip into dishonest participation
in  beliefs,   testimony,  witness,   talk,   convictions,
rituals, and traditions. Slipping can be a gradual process
from   minimal  participation  in  dishonest  involvement,
through  successively more serious  violations of our  own
and other people's integrity---until we cannot  tell  when
we are being honest, and when  we  are being dishonest. It
may  be  that at no point in the slippage can it  be  said
that  we make a conscious decision to tell a lie,   to  be
dishonest, to compromise our integrity or the integrity of
another person.  The stages can be very gradual,  yet they
slowly  lead  us  into  collusive  games  of  mutual  self
deception of which we are totally unaware.

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