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%EGO SEPARATE COLLUSIVE SELF DISHONEST DEFENSE EVIL+940522
  %ANALYTIC UNDERSTAND MANIPULATE CONTROL OBJECTIVE+940522
  %KNOWLEDGE SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY SUBJECT VICTIM EVIL 940522

    It is ironic how we conceive ourselves to be separated
entities---interacting   with  each  other  in   defensive
efforts  to  achieve  the security which  we  rejected  by
excommunicating  ourselves from our selves and each  other
in  our  conceptions of ourselves as essentially  separate
from  each  other,   and from any transcendent  spirit  of
unity, truth and love.

In  our  frustrated attempts to  be  independent  separate
entities  we join  together in coercive collusive games of
mutual   self  deception---in  which  we  are   perversely
dependent  upon  each  dishonest  other   to  respect  our
interdependent       dishonest conceptions of ourselves as
independent  creatures---who stand  back  from every thing
and person; and  judge it  without reflexivity, passion or
affection.

    We are so "successful" in our efforts that it does not
seem  strange to us to regard ourselves and each other  as
essentially  complex objects which are best understood and
controlled   through  objective  analysis  and  impersonal
manipulations.

    Our  deceptive egos were born of  our  conceptions  of
ourselves  as  essentially separated  beings---capable  of
existing  eternally as separated beings---even  though  we
are  not aware of any eternal past,  or of the process  of
our  own conception as isolated beings.   By the dishonest
nature  of  our egoistic conceptions and by the  collusive
rules which  covered them and govern us now,  our egos can
not survive  the revelation of how they were conceived and
how  they  continue to survive by virtue of our  collusive
games of mutual  self  deception  which are devoid of true
virtue.

    Our egos do not seek truth,  honesty,  intimacy, love,
personal  integrity or communal integrity---for  our  egos
would not  survive a successful search for such threats to
their survival.    Our apparent objectivity and  abilities
to understand, predict and control have been bought at the
price of personal and communal integrity.

    Because   our  fears  paralyze  us,  we  do  not  love
ourselves,   each other,  truth,  honesty,  intimacy,   or
integrity---and will not do so until  we  together  decide
that  we do not like our present ways;  and so  decide  to
change  our  minds  and our purposes  through  cooperative
efforts  which  reveal how essentially inter-connected  we
are  in a universe which in its conception was essentially
one in a singular time, place and being.

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