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        %DICHOTOMOUS PARADIGM DISHONESTY SIMPLICITY+940101
         %YES/NO COERCION FORCE ISSUES FALSE SIMPLE+940101
      %FORMAT FORMAL ELIMINATE AMBIGUITY COMPLEXITY+940101
          %DISHONESTY IGNORE REPRESS SUPPRESS AWARE+940101
       %GENERATE FALSE CERTAINTY CLARITY CONVICTION+940101
                    %GOOD/EVIL FRIEND/ENEMY THEM/US 940101

     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.
The 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
desire and think they need.

     When  we encounter people who see things  and  people
only   in   terms  of black and  white with  narrow  lines
between  acceptable and rejectable,   good and evil,  true
and false, proper and improper,   salvation and damnation,
other  other  like sharp distinctions---then we  need   to
look   for  diverse signs of  systemic   dishonesty    and
the   manipulations    of  our  ability   to   experience,
perceive,   describe  and  talk  about  our    real   life
situations   which  involve   complexity,   ambiguity  and
uncertainty as central and natural 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 ---  regarded as fixes for
their tragic insecurity.

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