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%FEAR JUDGE REJECT OWN VISION DESIRE PERCEPTION SEX+931230
   %ALIEN SELF DEVIL OTHER GOOD ACCEPT REPRESS LOVE 931230

     A  community and its members are set for personal and
communal   disintegration  when  they  respect    dominant
beliefs that:

     1.  Evil is pervasively present with power outside of
and/or  apart  from  our relationships with each  other---
and  can invade us,  control us,  and cause us to be  evil
people.

     2.    People  as individual people can  helpfully  be
identified   as inherently  evil  people,     perhaps   by
virtue   of   being possessed and  controlled by  an  evil
agent  who  has invaded them and taken  them  over---mind,
body and soul.

     3.    People  as individual people can  helpfully  be
identified  as inherently good people,   perhaps by virtue
of  successfully  resisting temptations  and/or  resisting
being  taken over by any  evil  agent;  or by  virtue   of
proper:    beliefs,    decisions, intentions,  actions and
achievements.

     Under  the above conditions is seems to be reasonable
and  proper  for good people to fear,  judge,  reject  and
repress  their  own most  integrative  visions,   desires,
intentions,     hopes,    aspirations  and  perceptions---
because  they   do  not  conform  to   their   community's
convergent   thought   processes.       Under  the   above
conditions   it   is exceedingly difficult  for   children
and   young   people of integrity to maintain   their  own
integrity  and   to   own as their  own   their  own  most
integrative   visions,     desires,   intentions,   hopes,
aspirations and perceptions.

     The    above   conditions of  belief   are   commonly
part   of  the collusive  patterns  in  communities  where
personal   and  communal  integrity are  not  regarded  as
worthy  of  ultimate concern;    and   so   personal   and
communal    integrity   are  sacrificed   in   order    to
preserve   the   apparently   good reputations   of  false
gods.   When people of integrity are not given the gift of
security  which  is  the freedom to  be safely   true   to
themselves and others, then both they  and their community
disintegrate.

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