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      %DUTY SHOULD PAST PARENT ANCESTORS DEAD MOURN+940323
      %MANIPULATE COERCIVE ADDICT GUILT SHAME EVILS+940323
      %BALANCE EQUILIBRIUM DISSONANCE INTEGRITY JOY 940323

     There are dangers inherent in focusing much attention
upon  ancestors,   dead  parents and our duties  to  them.
Because our communications with dead people are  uncertain
at  best,  there  are many living people  who  are  ready,
willing and "able"  to help us know what our  duties  are,
should be,  and will be.   They find it to their advantage
to  help  us feel guilt and shame  in  order  that  we  be
attentive to their guidance  regarding  what  we should do
with our time, energy and resources.

     If we face towards the  past and  focus  much of  our
attention   and   our  resources  upon  the past  ---   we
may tragically back into the future.    We need to balance
our  attention  so  that we are not constantly facing  the
past and so stumbling backwards into the future.   We also
need to be careful that while facing the future we are not
heedless of the lessons we might learn from the past.

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