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%IMPOSSIBLE BEING PERSON INTEGRITY OWN DISASSOCIATE+941005
%ROOT EVIL ALIENATION GOOD LAWS COMMANDMENTS REJECT+941005
 %PERSON COMMUNAL INTEGRITY DIALOGUE DESCRIBE LEARN+941005
 %MISTAKE TRAGEDY OWN ASSOCIATE CONFORMITY OBEY SIN 941005

     It is impossible to continue as a person of integrity
within  a  community  of integrity---so long as  you  feel
deeply that you cannot  survive with integrity if you  are
honestly    associated   with   your   own    experiences,
perceptions, feelings,    desires,    hopes,   aspirations
beliefs, convictions, and sense of integrity.

     If  you  feel deeply that you are  required  by  your
community   to   dis-associate  yourself  from  your   own
experiences,   perceptions,  feelings,   desires,   hopes,
aspirations, beliefs,  convictions and sense of integrity;
then it is impossible to continue as a person of integrity
within your community as a community of integrity.

     If you cannot associate yourself openly and  honestly
with  other   people who have and own your  own  kinds  of
experiences,  perceptions,   feelings,   desires,   hopes,
aspirations, beliefs,  convictions and sense of integrity;
then  it  is  impossible  to continue to as  a  person  of
integrity   within  your  community  as  a  community   of
integrity.

     If dishonest conformity is required by your community
as  a  condition  for the community  to accept your  being
present  in  the community as a communicant member of  the
community---then  you  cannot survive within the community
as  a  person of  integrity, and the community cannot be a
community of integrity.

     Conformity  to  prescribed  or expected  patterns  of
experiences,   perceptions,   feelings,  desires,   hopes,
aspirations,  beliefs, convictions and doctrines cannot be
the  basis  for personal or communal integrity---for  such
conformity  leads  inevitably to dishonesty  through  dis-
association of self from all that is essential to personal
integrity.

     When  self  dis-associates  self  from  all  that  is
essential   to   personal  integrity---self   is   playing
collusive  games  of mutual self deception with  self  and
others. There  is  then no  foundation upon which to build
by  learning from  one's  own  experiences,   perceptions,
feelings,   desires,   hopes,   aspirations,   beliefs  or
convictions.  Each person is other-directed to behave like
others who are other-directed  in incoherent ways---and so
there  is  no basis whatsoever for any  coherent  learning
from the  consequences  of  mistakes  made  and  tragedies
encountered.

     Under   the  circumstances  suggested  above  it   is
impossible for people to:

     1.  Honestly describe what they experience.

     2.  Learn from what they experience.

     3.  Tell each other what they have learned.

     4.  Remember the consequences of decisions made.

     5.  Be creative and innovative in new situations.

     6.  Be responsive or responsible to each other.

     7.  Be authentic and whole in who they are.

     8.  Be healthy.

     9.  Be true to self or others about self.

     10. Obey commandments with integrity.

     People  cannot be people of integrity in  communities
of  integrity  so long as their  acceptance into  dialogue
within  their communities  depends  primarily  upon  their
obeying  commandments  which  require their conformity  to
standards of acceptability.  When law is supreme, there is
no   integrity.     When  laws,    commandments,    rules,
regulations, prescriptions, proscriptions and expectations
are  worshiped     in    idolatrous    ways;   peoples and
communities  disintegrate.    No  laws or commandments can
make  it  be otherwise.   Idolatry leads to disintegration
when laws are worshipped.

     The  essence  of  evil  is NOT found  in  honest non-
conformity, creativity and responsiveness.

     The  essence  of  evil  is  found  within rejections,
excommunication, banishments, alienations,  estrangements,
dis-fellowshipping,    and  other forms of  disintegration
which  are rooted in the attitudes of people  who  believe
that  the essence of evil is to be found in non-conformity
to  what they regard as good laws,  commandments,   rules,
regulations,      prescriptions,     proscriptions     and
expectations.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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