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   %SIN EMOTION EXPERIENCE ALIEN REFLEXIVE RESPONSE 930613

     Sinful  experience  and emotions are those which  are
associated with alienation from self, others and God.

     Which  experiences and emotions are  associated  with
alienation from self,  others and God differ somewhat from
culture  to  culture;  and from subculture  to  subculture
within any major culture.

     By its characteristics and processes each culture and
subculture  defines  which  experiences and  emotions  are
sinful  and which are not.   Some of the  definitions  are
essentially inherent in the nature of being finite humans,
others  are not and have to do with accidents of  cultural
diversity.

     Within   any   culture  or  subculture   people   may
experience  their  own subculture's definitions  of  which
experiences and emotions are  sinful as if the definitions
were   objective  realities;   i.e.,   as  if  the   human
definitions transcended humanity in essential ways just as
mountains,  rivers, lakes, volcanoes, and oceans do.    It
it difficult to deal creatively with human definitions  of
which  experiences  and emotions are  sinful if  they  are
regarded as objective realities,  when in reality they are
reflexive realities and so are not objective realities.

     It  is  true that some experiences and  emotions  are
more  globally associated with alienation than are others.
Alienation is almost always associated with:

     1.  Murder                 2.  Rape
     3.  Robbery                4.  Violent Assault
     5.  Kidnapping             6.  Terrorism
     7.  Threats                8.  Insults
     9.  Humiliation           10.  Ridicule

     There  are  other experiences and emotions which  are
locally  associated with alienation,  depending  upon  the
characteristics  of local subcultures.   Those experiences
and  emotions  which  are  only  locally  associated  with
alienation often have to do with the showing of disrespect
for local collusive games of mutual self deception.   Such
alienation is associated with unresolved conflicts between
conflicting   ideals  and  values.   They  often   involve
alienation between (1) Those people who continue to try to
faithfully play dishonest  games of mutual self deception,
and (2) Those  people  who  are  dedicated  to  charitable
honesty, to  promoting  personal  and  communal integrity.
Such   alienation  has  been  associated  with   conflicts
relating to:

     1.  Slavery                2.  Male dominance
     3.  Idol worship           4.  Racial discrimination
     5.  Ethnic discrimination  6.  Doctrinal differences
     7.  Sexual life styles     8.  Intimate relationships
     9.  Impossible dreams     10.  Honest expressions
    11.  Artistic expressions  12.  Freedoms of expression
    13.  Authority structures  14.  Issues of control
    15.  Uses of techniques    16.  Ideals and Values
    17.  Religious freedom     18.  Sexual freedom

     Here the boundary between what appears  to  transcend
human  reality and what is essentially a function of human
conventions  is  often not at all clear.   The closer  one
examines the  boundary the less clear the boundary   is in
exceptional cases.  Tragedies often flow from compulsively
pretending  that  human  conventions  and  traditions  are
expressions  of  objective reality rather  than  reflexive
human  realities which humans can change through open  and
honest dialogue which transcends collusive games of mutual
self deception.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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