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  %ADDICT LEGALISM MORALITY CONTROL SELF OTHER LOVE 940406

    Laws  and moral codes have played important  roles  in
the development of civilization.  It would be difficult to
maintain civilization in their absence.   At the same time
people who are addicted to and fixated upon laws,   rules,
regulations,  prohibitions, prescriptions, moral codes and
their  like  as means to control all aspects  of  people's
lives---they undermine the credibility of appropriate laws
and moral guidelines.  When we are dominated by people who
are addicted to legal/moral controls it is difficult to be
open, honest, intimate, loving, creative or joyful.

    We  need  to learn how to respect appropriate laws and
moral guidelines---without respecting addictive people who
are   fixated   upon  legal  systems,   moral  codes   and
judgmentalism as tools of control.   Such addictive people
are often fearful of truly creative people---whom they see
as  not being properly under the control of  any system of
good  laws,  moral  codes or threats  of  judgment.   Such
fearful people cannot  respect  honest people of integrity
who are not preoccupied with issues of control;  for  such
honest people  of integrity are threats to  the  collusive
games  of  mutual self deception which are played  by  the
fearful people of the law.

    Strangely,  many fearful people of the law invoke  the
name  of one of the most non-conformist of  the  religious
prophets  of western history---a man was put to death on a
cross for refusing to conform to the demands of  addictive
people of his culture who were fixated upon legal systems,
moral codes and judgmentalism as  tools of control.   What
modern  fearful  people  of  the  law  preach---is   often
contradictory to the birth,   life, teachings,   death and
resurrection of the person under whose  name  they  preach
conformity to the law.  That contradiction is an essential
part of the  collusive game of mutual self deception which
they  invite  others  join---doing  so in the  name  of  a
supreme non-conformist who taught and lived the Truth, the
Way and the Life of Love and Humility.   Their behavior is
a paradox in need of a healing miracle of gracious truth.

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