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  %POWER CONTEST CONFLICT COMPETE COERCE MANIPULATE 931022

     Addictive  people tend to focus upon issues having to
do with  the  power to be in control:   Who is in control?
How  is control exercised?   Who is not in control?    Who
benefits/loses because of who is in control?   What is the
intention  of the person(s)  who are in control?   Is  the
effort to be in control successful or does it appear to be
successful?    What technologies of control would be  more
effective?

     Addictive people avoid asking questions about how  to
transcend  their preoccupation with issues of control  and
conflict  over  being  in control---because  according  to
their  collusive  paradigm  the issues of control  are  of
ultimate importance  in  maintaining proper control in the
face of threats to: law,  order,  propriety,  decency, and
conformity to God's Laws.

     When  faced with the possible loss of control  and/or
the  loss  of  the appearance of being  in  control---many
people look for ways to heighten the levels of technology,
will-power,  dedication,  commitment, belief,  conviction,
resources-use, sophistication, etc.   They see all of life
in  terms  of  battles between the forces of good and  the
forces of evil.   Good people like themselves should be in
control and  people  who are evil should be cast into  the
outer  darkness  into states of perpetual alienation  from
all the good people of the world.   They believe that only
then will  law and order prevail with them in full control
of  appearances  and  reality.   They work  diligently  to
create  such a perfect heaven here on earth,  but  succeed
only in perpetuating hell on earth.

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