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 %PREVENT CONTROL EVILS TRAGEDIES MISTAKES FAILURES+941218
 %SIN DISORDER CONFUSION MISUNDERSTAND ENTROPY SINS+941218
 %IMPERFECT FLAW DISHONESTY ALIENATION ESTRANGEMENT+941218
 %TEMPTATIONS CORRUPTION VIOLENCE CONFLICT COERCION 941218

     Many  people in many situations will agree with  each
other on many "things"  that they feel and think should be
prevented  in one way or another.   Such "things"  may  be
pointed to, described, represented and otherwise called to
attention with the aid of the following words:

     EVIL     TRAGEDIES    MISTAKES    IMPERFECTIONS

     SINS     DISORDER     CONFUSION   MISUNDERSTANDINGS

     ENTROPY  TEMPTATIONS  FAILURES    DISHONESTY

     FLAWS    ESTRANGEMENT CORRUPTION  VIOLENCE

     SIN      CONFLICT     COERCION    WAR

     PAIN     DISEASE      TENSION     SICKNESS     DEATH

     Clearly many of the above "things" are not objects or
objective  realities.   What people  want  to prevent  are
undesirable aspects of human relationships which are often
very painful.   Since "a stitch in time saves nine"   some
early   preventive   efforts  would  reduce  greatly   the
undesirable pain, etc.

     Our  dilemma is that often our efforts to prevent the
undesirable "things"  through attempts to be in control of
them---generate     much     alienation,     estrangement,
misunderstanding, resentment, dishonesty, and pain.

     To prevent the many "things" seems to require that we
control people's behaviors,  actions, decisions, thoughts,
feelings,  communications,  perceptions,  and experiences.
Our   efforts to control them are often not appreciated by
those  people who experience our efforts as violations  of
their personal and communal integrities.  Thus our efforts
to prevent many  of   the  undesirable "things"   occasion
many  of  the undesirable "things" in ways which we do not
understand.  We will do well to  seek to understand how it
is that  our efforts  to  prevent  the undesirable aspects
of our  lives, in fact often occasion the very undesirable
aspects of our lives which we are trying to prevent.

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