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 %OUTWARD OBJECTIVE BEHAVIOR ATTITUDE BELIEF DESIRE+950815
  %RELIGIOUS CONTROL MANIPULATION FUNDAMENTAL FEARS+950815
%SCIENCE OBJECT ANALYSIS PREDICT EXPECT REQUIRE LAW 950815

     People  who are preoccupied with objects,   objective
behaviors  and outward signs---usually  discourage  people
from showing  outwardly  any signs  of  their  true  inner
attitudes,   beliefs.   desires,  perceptions,   insights,
desires,   fears  and motivations.    In the  presence  of
people  who are preoccupied with objective considerations,
few  people have the courage to be open and honest.   Thus
compulsively  "objective"   people  encourage  dishonesty,
deception,  and both personal and communal disintegration.
People  who are preoccupied with "objective"   signs  will
thus remain  ignorant of the motivations which lead to the
"objective" behaviors which they "perceive."

     It  is  not only  professionally  trained  scientific
specialists  who are preoccupied with "objective"   signs.
Often religious people  who pride themselves on their high
levels  of spirituality and morality are preoccupied  with
"objective" signs---in  terms  of which to make legalistic
judgements  about  how "good"  or "evil"   various  people
and/or  their  behaviors  are.     Do  people  recite  the
"correct" creeds?  Do they  perform the "correct"  rituals
regularly?   Do  they avoid saying "incorrect" things?  Do
they avoid expressing "incorrect"  thoughts,  perceptions,
desires,  and fears.  Do they avoid associating with,  and
being influenced by "evil" people?

     People who are preoccupied with "objective" signs are
usually preoccupied with issues of control:   of what,  by
whom,   how,  for what reason,   to what  advantage,   how
perfectly, etc.  Their efforts usually lead to alienation,
estrangement,   excommunications,   ignorance,   misunder-
standing and evil-relationships.   But in their view  such
effects   are   not  important---because  they   are   not
essentially objective.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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