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                 %RELIGIOUS ADDICT CODEPEND COLLUDE+930714
               %NATURE FIX TECHNOLOGY CHANGE DEPEND+930714
               %OBJECT REFLEXIVE ADDICT IDEAL FOCUS 930714

     A fix does not call for any change in the user of the
fix;  it enables the user to avoid unwanted change;  or so
it may seem.

     The  user  of a fix appears to be in charge  of  that
which  is used,  but in reality the user is  destructively
dependent upon the fix---as an alcoholic is dependent upon
alcohol.

     A  fix  appears  to  be  just  a  technology,   tool,
technique,   or means by which a reasonable end or goal is
achieved; but in reality, it is also perversion of what we
may  reasonably  desire,  have as a goal,  an  attempt  to
achieve.

     A fix is not essentially an objective reality; rather
a  fix  is a fix in relations to a person or  persons  who
relate to the fix as a reflexive reality in their life  or
lives.  The relation with the fix is reflexive, reflecting
upon  the attitudes,  ideals and values which motivate and
guide  the person.   Because of the reflexive nature of  a
fix,   any  attempt  to deal with a fix as  an  object  of
fixation  must  include reflexive considerations of  fixes
are   likely   to  be  expressions  of  a  fixation   upon
objectivity as a fix itself.

     Many   substances,   drugs,   objects,    activities,
processes,  relationships, groups,  institutions,  people,
etc.   can play central roles in fixes.   The essence of a
fix  is  more to be found in the assumptions,   attitudes,
values  and  ideals  of people---than in  the  essence  of
whatever  is central in their fixations.   Thus to attempt
to  transcend fixations by fixing attention upon  whatever
is central to a fixation is to deepen the fixations.    To
transcend  fixations we need to shift attention away  from
what  is  central  to  the  fixations---and  towards   the
assumptions, values, ideals and beliefs of people in their
relationships with each other in the presence of God.

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