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  %COMPULSIVE CONCERN ISSUE CONTROL LEGAL MORAL LAW+930502
   %IMPERFECT LEGAL INJUNCTION TABOO FAIL ENCOURAGE 930502

     The  paradigm  of  legalists  and  moralizers  is not
successful  in promoting personal and  communal  integrity
for a  number of reasons:

     1.  Legalists  and  moralizers do not  recognize  and
deal with the    fact    that   the   language   of  their
injunctions,    prohibitions    and   taboos    does   not
communicate   the  same  meaning  to all   who   hear  it.
Different   people  understand  and   interpret   language
differently;    often  in  highly contrasting ways.    The
nature  of  the paradigm is such that this fact cannot  be
openly and honestly admitted,  for  to do so would violate
the paradigm.

     2.  Often when  people do understand in the  same way
what  is  called  for by injunctions,    prohibitions  and
taboos;   the calls  elicit  contrary  responses,   rather
than  responses of respect  and  conformity---because  the
calls which  people  hear   are manipulative,    coercive,
dishonest,   unjust, collusive, and  violent.    People of
integrity  cannot with integrity  respond  to  such  calls
in   conformity   to   the intent  of   the   call;    and
neither  can   people  who  lack  integrity   respond   to
such  calls in conformity  to  the intent of the call. The
calls for conformity are futile.

     3.  The calls  of  legalists   and moralizers usually
require  striving    to  achieve  levels   of   perfection
which   are impossible to attain;   and so constitute  the
laying  of the foundations   for  personal  judgmentalism,
rejections,   excommunications,   alienation,    and  evil
relationships.   The  calls usually  lead   to  perfecting
standards   which  are  used  in    passing     alienative
judgements,    rather   than  in encouraging personal  and
communal integrity.

     4.  The  calls  of  legalists and  moralizers  rarely
serve as  the  foundations  for  liberating  people to  be
true   to  themselves and each other in open   and  honest
dialogue; in integrative relationships wherein they  truly
come  to  know  and understand each other as unique  whole
persons in their  own  right,    rather than in trying  to
conform  to  external standards.  Often the calls lead to:
enslavement  rather  than  liberation,      disintegration
rather   than  integration,  misunderstanding rather  than
understanding,  judgmentalism rather than perfection.

     5.  Legalists  and  moralizers  are  more  interested
in  promoting  appearances   of  conformity   than    they
are   interested    in   promoting    honest     dialogue,
personal integrity or communal integrity.

     6.  Legalists  and  moralizers are trying  to control
what is beyond  their  power  to  control:    perceptions,
feelings, insights,  experiences, truths,  understandings,
intimate relationships,  sexuality, behaviors,  responses,
reactions, salvation, redemption, prayer communities, etc.

     7.  Legalists  and  moralizers  are trying to  reduce
the  dissonance   between  their  expectations  and  their
unfolding   reality  by  coercively   manipulating   other
people;     rather than by developing truly realistic  and
honest expectations within themselves.

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