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 %PROPER WORD USAGE VERB NOUN ADJECTIVE ADVERB EVIL+950623
 %GOOD ALIENATIVE PEOPLE RELATIONSHIP THREATEN FAIL+950623
%PUNISH JAIL HARM DISINTEGRATIVE ACTION SIN CONFUSE 950623

     Improper use of words confuses thoughts and actions.

     Is  the word "evil"  properly used as a noun,   verb,
adjective, adverb and/or preposition?

     Does  it make sense to talk about the "quickly  apple
which fell down the ground"?

     Does  it make sense to talk about "God's golden  hair
which falls beautifully around her broad shoulders"?

     Does  it make sense to talk about the  "Good  threats
issued  by evil people who said that they would carry  out
God's  disintegrative  will and destroy the dangerous non-
conformists who threatened the good order of society"?

     When "good"  people are in the habit of issuing overt
and covert threats to do disintegrative things---if others
do not  conform to their conceptions of  what is proper---
the fruits of their habits are disintegrative.

     When  "good"   people threaten  "evil"   people  with
condemnations,    excommunication,    estrangement,    and
alienation---the  fruits  of their threats are not  sweet.
Simple common folks  can judge  for  themselves how "good"
the "good"  people  are  in  the  light  of the alienative
relationships which they engender.

     "Evil"   is a word which is best reserved to describe
reflexive  relationships.   It is confusing when the  word
"evil" is used to describe:

                  1.  People

                  2.  Things

                  3.  Places

                  4.  Ideas

               5.  Perceptions

              6.  Organizations

                7.  Religions

                  8.  Races

                 9.  Cultures

              10.  Ethnic groups

     Evil  pertains to human relationships;  all of  which
are  reflexive.    Objective language does not clarify and
help us to understand and  deal with evil relationships---
because  objective language does not help us to deal  with
reflexive relationships.    The  use of objective words in
dealing with reflexive relationships often confuses  human
perceptions and thought processes.   The use of adjectives
as  nouns does not clarify thought. People who are trapped
in    evil relationships are not helpfully thought  of  as
evil  people.  "Good"  people who threaten people who  are
trapped  in evil relationships  do not thereby  help  such
people  to  become  and/or  be "good"  people;  for  human
threats are always alienative.

     Natural  disasters  are  not  evil,   no  matter  how
unfortunate  and destructive they may be.   They do not of
their nature generate alienative human relationships.

     Tragic developments are not evil; they are rather the
fruits of  evil relationships in which people do  not deal
openly and honestly with conflicting human ideals,  values
and   goals  in  the  face  of  real  human   limits   and
limitations.

     People  who  engender  threatening  social   contexts
thereby engender fears which in  turn engenders evil human
relationships---and  so  engender  personal  and  communal
disintegration.     Attempts  to  control  "evil"   people
through  the  use  of threats---are  attempts  which  bear
bitter  fruit and do not merit respect or support.    Fear
of the fulfillment of such  threats  engenders  evil human
relationships which include  the "good" people who seek to
control some presumably "evil" people.

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