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%DEFENSE AVOID VULNERABILITY PARADIGM METHOD SECURE+940919
 %DATA EVIDENCE FILTERS BLIND SEE CONNECTIONS CAUSE+940919
  %COLLUSIVE GAMES OF MUTUAL SELF DECEPTION SCIENCE 940919

     Our attitudes and stances towards other people depend
greatly upon how we seek to  protect ourselves against the
hazards and risks  of life.   If  we  view security as the
absence of vulnerability---we will be constantly trying to
avoid vulnerability,  for to us perfect security will seem
to demand perfect invulnerability.

     If   perfect   security  seems  to   demand   perfect
invulnerability---then  we  can  never be  open,   honest,
responsive, responsible, intimate, spontaneous, authentic,
friendly or in love.

     As  our  tools of possible violence  and  destruction
become  more  "powerful"---our  need  for  perfection   in
defenses   and  invulnerability   becomes greater and more
demanding.  Ultimately we can never be free to sleep, rest
or relax.

     If   we  find  we  can  never  be  open  and  honest,
responsive, responsible, intimate, spontaneous, authentic,
friendly,  in love,  asleep, resting or relaxing---then we
need to reconsider our  conception  of  the nature of real
security.

     There must be limits to how perfectly we use the data
filters  of our ultimate paradigm.   When we see pervasive
personal  and  communal disintegration all around  us---we
need to  take off the filters which prevent us from seeing
the evidence which points to the  connections between such
disintegration and our ultimate ideals, values and goals.

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