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  %GOOD LIFE HEAVEN HELL FULFILLMENT ENJOY ENGINEER+950422
   %ACHIEVEMENT TECHNOLOGIES CONTROL PARADIGM GOALS+950422
 %CELEBRATION RITUAL DEFINE EVIL ALIENATION FAILURE+950422
 %ADDICTIVE COLLUSIVE CODEPENDENT LIFE STYLE FIXATE 950422

     The  good life has more to do with enjoying open  and
honest   dialogue  in  communities  where  members  freely
exchange gifts of the freedom to be vulnerable---than with
any achievements/celebrations of engineering goals, tools,
and technologies.

     The good life is not an engineering achievement.

     The good life is not achieved by being in  control of
the various parameters of a technical project.

     The  good life is not a goal which can be achieved by
clearing  defining  the  goal,   and  then  systematically
setting  out  to  get  to  the goal through  a  series  of
carefully planned and executed technical steps.

     The good  life is not the fruit/reward  of a paradigm
in which control plays a major role.

     Control  of  the steps  in  an  engineering/technical
project does not lead to the good life.

     Preoccupations  with and fixation upon the good  life
as  if  it  can  be  defined  and  then  achieved  through
technical   means  of  control---are  preoccupations   and
fixations   of  addictive  people,   and   lead   to   the
characteristically dysfunctional  life styles of addictive
people and their codependent supporters.

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