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  %AMBIGUITY DICHOTOMY MYSTERY SACRED GOOD EVIL SIN 930501

     To     dichotomous    thinkers   who   insist    that
everything  be   either/or   it  is  offensive  to  accept
ambiguous  situations as such.   A   person is either good
or evil,  an action  is either good or evil,  a  person is
either saved or  dammed.   Equivocation  is a sign of  the
work  of  the devil.   In each and every situation a stand
must be taken.  To fail to take a stand is to surrender to
the devil.

     Dichotomous    thinkers    are   victims    of    the
patterns  of thoughts of addicts and codependents who  are
preoccupied with issues of control.  Issues of control are
simplified  when   they   are  reduced  to  questions   of
either/or.     It   is  apparently  easier  to  deal  with
conflicts if each person is either enemy  or foe,  good or
evil,  saved or dammed  and expendable.

     Dichotomous  thinkers   cannot  accept  mysteries  or
sacred relationships which are full of ambiguity.  In holy
I-Thou  relationships    not   everything  is    either/or
and    so  dichotomous   thinkers   avoid   holy    I-Thou
relationships;  including holy I-Thou  relationships  with
God.    They are alienated from  themselves,    from  each
other,     and  from healthy people.   They spend a goodly
portion of their time in hell.

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