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 %COLLUDE PARADIGM ADDICT CODEPEND COMMUNITY PERSON 930421

     People   who   engage  in  destructive   violence  as
terrorists, robbers, rapists, etc. are non-conformists.

     People   who  engage  in  dishonest  activities   for
purposes  of  personal gain or for the advantage of hiding
their own mistakes are non-conformists.

     People  who  engage in undisciplined  sexual activity
which is  likely to lead to unwanted pregnancies  and  the
spread of sexual diseases are non-conformists

     People  who  do not speak their language  in  keeping
with  standards  for  pronunciation,  grammar  and  syntax
generate confusion as non-conformists.

     People who operate in terms of a non-conformal belief
system  are  hard  to  understand  and  are  regarded   as
unreliable non-conformists who cannot be trusted.

     It  is  often  true  that  non-conformists  engage in
activities which are threats to the communal integrity and
to the sense  of security and well being of members of the
community.   Thus  non-conformity is often  regarded  with
strongly negative connotations.

     The most creative people are non-conformists in their
creativity.   They  do  things which have  not  been  done
before.  Thus we are presented with the dilemma of knowing
how  to recognize,  describe and talk about the difference
between threatening non-conformity  and  positive creative
non-conformity.

     Non-conformists are a threat to communal and personal
integrity when they:

    1.  Are dishonest, deceptive and/or misleading.
    2.  Overtly threaten people's personal integrity.
    3.  Overtly threaten people's communal integrity.
    4.  Try to control people when they have no authority.
    5.  Violate integrative rules, regulations, or rights.
    6.  Engage in personally manipulative behaviors.
    7.  Conceal truths which people have a right to know.
    8.  Show willful insensitivity to people's desires.
    9.  Are   willfully  unbalanced  in   extreme   ways.
   10.  Pretend that highly risky behaviors are not risky.

     Non-conformists are  not  a threat  to  communal  and
personal integrity when they:

    1.  Point to and/or speak uncomfortable truths.
    2.  Threaten the respectability of a collusion.
    3.  Reveal the dishonesty of a powerful addict.
    4.  Expose powerful codependent supporters' deceit.
    5.  Creatively transcend traditions which are idols.
    6.  Ask questions which transcend a paradigm.
    7.  Refuse to join a collusive or addictive group.
    8.  Make clear the rules of an operative collusion.
    9.  Refuse  to  respect people  who  lack  integrity.
   10.  Are true to themselves and to each other.

     We need  to learn how to clarify instances  in  which
non-conformists  are/are-not  a  threat  to  personal  and
communal integrity.  We also  need to learn now to clarify
instances   in  which  communities  as   communities  lack
integrity and are a threat to  the  integrity  of creative
members of the community. Communities as communities are a
threat  to  the  personal  integrity  of  members  of  the
communities when they:

    1.  Are dishonest, deceptive and/or misleading.
    2.  Overtly threaten people's personal integrity.
    3.  Overtly threaten people's communal integrity.
    4.  Try to control people when they have no authority.
    5.  Violate integrative rules, regulations, or rights.
    6.  Engage in personally manipulative behaviors.
    7.  Conceal truths which people have a right to know.
    8.  Show willful insensitivity to people's desires.
    9.  Are   willfully   unbalanced  in  extreme   ways.
   10.  Pretend that highly risky behaviors are not risky.

     Communities are not threats to the personal integrity
of their members when they:

    1.  Point to and/or speak uncomfortable truths.
    2.  Threaten the respectability of a collusion.
    3.  Reveal the dishonesty of a powerful addict.
    4.  Expose powerful codependent supporters' deceit.
    5.  Creatively transcend traditions which are idols.
    6.  Ask questions which transcend a paradigm.
    7.  Refuse to join a collusive or addictive group.
    8.  Make clear the rules of an operative collusion.
    9.  Refuse  to  respect  people who  lack  integrity.
   10.  Are true to themselves and to each other.

     A failure to recognize,  articulate,  and talk about
essential distinctions can  lead to  confusion and to both
personal and communal disintegration.

     All too often people have regarded non-conformists as
inherently  threatening  and have regarded any sign  of  a
person's  willingness not to conform as a threat,  even if
it  only involved non-conformal clothing or  hair  length.
Non-conformity  is  not  in and of  itself  a  threat.   A
willingness  not  to  conform  is not in and of  itself  a
threat.  A  sign that one is willing not to conform is not
in and of itself a threat.

     Greater care  needs to be taken than has  often  been
taken to evaluate how threatening to personal and communal
integrity any particular  instance  of  non-conformity is.
Excommunicating  non-conformists who are not a true threat
to personal and communal integrity  is  a major  threat to
personal  and  communal integrity.  Such  excommunications
have generated  a great  deal  of  personal  and  communal
disintegration  in the course of human history.  There  is
much to be learned from the reading of the history of such
excommunications.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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