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  %LACK IMPOSSIBLE CONTROL KINDS REALITIES OUTCOMES+930603
  %PERSON IMPRESSION RESPONSE PERCEPTION THINK FEEL+930603
   %CAUSE EFFECT CONSEQUENCE CHAOS DISORDER PREDICT 930603

     To  enjoy personal and communal integrity we need  to
be  honest  about the kinds of realities which  we  cannot
control; e.g.,  persons':

     RESPONSES          REACTIONS       PERCEPTIONS
     EMOTIONS           THOUGHTS        FEELINGS
     DESIRES            AVERSIONS       FEARS
     BELIEFS            CONVICTIONS     INTENTIONS
     EXPECTATIONS       HOPES           ASPIRATIONS
     LEARNING           MEMORIES        FORGETTING

     We  may influence many such realities,  but we cannot
control  them.    If  we think that we  can  control  such
realities  we  are playing collusive games of mutual  self
deception, and are alienated from those whom we think that
we  are  controlling---and do not know them intimately  as
persons.    If  we try to control people as if  they  were
objects  we are bound to know them only as  non-responsive
objects and  so  not know them as responsive persons,  and
not  be informed about any of the above kinds of reflexive
realities  as they relate to the people whom we are trying
to control.  We will be ignorant of them.

     The  impossibility of controlling a  process  depends
greatly  upon  how  complex and  inter-connected  are  the
elements of the process.  Simple unconnected processes are
much  easier  to control than are complex processes  which
are   intricately   inter-connected.     Human   reflexive
relationships  are complex and intricately inter-connected
and so are beyond human control.

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