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     %AVOID ADDRESS SPEAK TALK SILENCE QUIET ASSUME+940413
   %PARADIGM ULTIMATE CONCERN WORSHIP IDOLATRY LOVE+940413
   %SEPARATE ALIENS OBJECT MANIPULATE EVIL DIALOGUE+940413
    %SCIENTISTS TECHNOCRATS OBJECTIVITY REFLEXIVITY 940413

    When people seek to return from Objectivity to Love as
the  ground of being true to themselves and  each other as
essentially inter-connected people---those people who  are
essentially  dis-connected  from  each other  as  isolated
objective  observers---are bound to seek to  discredit  in
alienative  ways any return  from  Objectivity  to Love as
absurd---without daring to speak to,  or  be  in  dialogue
about,  the  assumptions which they are making, or address
the evidence which is consistent with and/or  inconsistent
with the assumptions which are being made.

    People  who  are  operating out of paradigms of  fear,
insecurity, defensiveness, manipulation and attempts to be
in control---find it unthinkable to seek to be  fully true
to  themselves  and  each  other;   and  therefore find it
unthinkable  to assume  that  they  might  be  essentially
inter-connected people---rather than  as  essentially dis-
connected  collections  of elementary objects  functioning
according to deterministic laws of objective processes.

    When people are operating out of essentially different
paradigms---essentially   different   sets   of   ultimate
assumptions  and  ultimate  beliefs---it  is difficult for
them  to recognize,  acknowledge and/or  talk about  their
contrasting sets of ultimate assumptions. Some of them are
far  more likely to ridicule each  other while refusing to
recognize,   acknowledge  and/or talk about  each  other's
differing ultimate assumptions, beliefs and convictions.

    Often  it is difficult for us to openly  and  honestly
consider  an alternative  hypothesis which is  based  upon
essentially different sets  of  ultimate  assumptions  and
ultimate  beliefs---and so we express our  own  narrow and
limiting paradigm by asking only those questions which are
consistent with the assumptions and ultimate  beliefs upon
which  our own paradigm is based.   We blind ourselves  to
the  evidence  in support of contrasting  assumptions  and
ultimate  beliefs---and  claim that alternative liberating
paradigms  are unreasonable.   In  fact  many  alternative
paradigms  only  appear unreasonable  to  us---because  we
blindly refuse  to  consider  the assumptions and  beliefs
which  would free us,  return our ability to see and be in
dialogue,  and so return us from alienative objectivity to
integrative   Love   as  a  working   hypothesis.     Thus
scientists,   technocrats and those who admire their ways,
are   often   trapped  in  what  appears  to  be  unbiased
objectivity,    when  they  are  actually  blinded  by  an
exclusive    paradigm  which  prevents  them  from    even
considering alternative hypotheses.

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