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 %DICHOTOMOUS PARADIGM DISHONESTY SIMPLICITY YES/NO+930826
  %COERCION FORCE ISSUES INTO FALSELY SIMPLE FORMAT+930826
%FORMAL ELIMINATE AMBIGUITY COMLEXITY BY DISHONESTY+930826
    %IGNORE REPRESS SUPPRESS AWARENESS OF AMBIGUITY+930826
      %GENERATE FALSE CERTAINTY CLARITY CONVICTIONS+930826
                    %GOOD EVIL FRIEND/ENEMY THEM/US 930826

     To  deal  wisely  with  much  of  the   dysfunctional
thinking around us we need to recognize,  name,   describe
and talk about the many different ways in which dishonesty
is   combined   with   dichotomies  to   generate   false:
simplicity,  clarity,  certainty,  convictions,  goodness,
virtue, and hope.

     People  who  are generous and appreciative in  giving
and  accepting  the gift of true security are  people  who
feel  no  need  to over simplify real life in  efforts  to
achieve for themselves a false sense of security.    Other
people  are  often  defensive in their  false  efforts  to
eliminate complexity,  ambiguity,  uncertainty and  doubt.
They manipulate ideals, values, questions, issues, beliefs
and  affirmations  in efforts to get other people to  join
with  them in playing their collusive games of mutual self
deception  ---    games designed  to  simplify  life   and
facilitate  the  comforting sense of certainty which  they
desperately need.

     When  we  encounter people who see things and  people
only  in  terms  of sharp black and  white  lines  between
acceptable  and rejectable good and evil,  true and false,
proper  and improper,  salvation and damnation,  and other
like sharp distinctions --- then we need to look for signs
of systemic dishonesty and the manipulation our ability to
experience,  perceive,  describe,  and talk about our real
life  situations which involve complexity,  ambiguity  and
uncertainty  as central features.   If we do not do so  we
are  likely  to  join  such  collusive  people  in   their
addictive     dependence    upon    false     dichotomies,
simplifications, and convictions as fixes for their tragic
insecurity.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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