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    %PERSONAL COMMUNAL DISINTEGRATION THREAT REJECT+950818
  %EXCOMMUNICATE EXCLUDE FAMILY CHURCH ORGANIZATION 950818

Personal and communal disintegration are promoted by
threats  to excommunicate and/or exclude people from their
family, community, city, state and/or nation in punishment
for:

     1.  Failing to conform to coercive expectations and
   demands.

     2.  Expressing themselves openly and honesty.

     3.  Being creatively responsive to new situations and
   people.

     4.  Exposing collusive games of mutual self
   deception.

     5.  Being true to self and others.

     6.  Not adequately justifying self before critics.

     Calling  upon  people to justify  themselves  through
their  own  efforts---to  make  themselves  appear  to  be
acceptable---is disintegrative.

     Punishing   people   who  have  failed   to   justify
themselves---failed   to  make  themselves  appear  to  be
acceptable---is disintegrative.

     Personal  and  communal  integrity  are  promoted  by
actions of lovers and peacemakers which  lead other people
to safely let go of their efforts to justify themselves---
to safely let go of efforts to appear to be acceptable.

     Personal  and communal integrity are promoted by  the
actions  of  lovers  and  peacemakers  which  promote  the
exchange  of  true  gifts  of the  freedom  to  be  safely
vulnerable;  i.e., to be truly secure---not called upon to
engage in self justification.

     Self justification entails actions which threaten the
personal  and communal integrity of others.   To call upon
people  to  engage in self justification is to  call  upon
them  to threaten the personal and communal integrities of
all  members of their communities.   Thus expecting and/or
calling  for self justification is disintegrative and  not
worthy of our respect and/or support.

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