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%CONSEQUENCE EXCOMMUNICATE BANISH REJECT SELF OTHER 950930

     People   who   engage  in  formal   and/or   informal
excommunications,   banishments  and  rejections  of  non-
conformists---rarely see clearly the consequences of their
blockages of dialogue.   Such blockers of dialogue usually
see  the non-conformists whom they excommunicate,   banish
and  reject---as the proper victims of good  and justified
actions;   of  good and justified punishments  which  will
cause   the  non-conformists  to  repent  and  return   to
respectable patterns of proper  conformity.    If the non-
conformists  do not repent---the non-conformists are  seen
as inherently evil;  perhaps as victims of original sin or
of the seductions of The Devil.

     Rarely  do blockers of dialogue see themselves as the
ones  who  are isolated.   They block themselves off  from
creative insights and dialogue.   They blind themselves---
thinking  that  thereby  others  are the  victims  of  the
punishment of the blindness.  They make themselves deaf---
thinking  that  thereby  others  are the  victims  of  the
punishment   of   the  deafness.      Excommunication   is
excommunication  of  self  from others  who  are  rejected
because they do not conform "properly".

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