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  %DOCTRINAL PARANOIA FEAR DEFENSIVE DISINTEGRATION 951025

     People  who  are victims of the disease  of  paranoia
have  demented minds and are fearful that there  are  many
people around them who are threats to them.   They respond
to the threats  which they fear surround them in defensive
ways which are disintegrative.

     Doctrinoids are people who are victims of the disease
of  doctrinoia.  They  have  doctrinally fixated minds and
are fearful that there are many dangerous doctrines around
them which are threats to them.  They respond to different
doctrines which surround  them with fear in defensive ways
which are disintegrative.

     Doctrinoids   are   compulsively   preoccupied   with
doctrines which they fear  are  threats  to  them;   as---
paranoids  are  compulsively preoccupied with  people  and
things which are around them and which they fear  threaten
them.  Neither kind of  people  have  a  healthy basis for
transcending  their  compulsive  fixations upon what  they
fear.    The more they concentrate upon what they fear and
focus upon defending themselves  against what they fear---
the more sure they are that their fears are well grounded;
for many  people fail to be sympathetic to their fears and
so show that they are not trustworthy.

     Doctrinoids are particularly disturbed by people  who
do   not   share  their  compulsive   preoccupation   with
doctrines.  They have more in common with unhealthy people
who believe and support false doctrines, than they have in
common  with  healthy  people who are indifferent to  most
doctrines.  It is easier and more fulfilling to be engaged
in conflict with a person  who believes false doctrines---
than to deal with  a person who shows no concern regarding
most  doctrines.   Doctrinoids have very little in  common
with people who transcend  doctrinal conflicts and seek to
promote   open  and  honest  dialogue  within  integrative
communities  of people who  enjoy  personal  and  communal
integrity.    The indifference  of  integrative people and
communities towards  doctrinal conflicts is experienced as
a  threat  to the egos of doctrinoids.    Thus  they  feel
compelled  to take defensive action and stir  up conflicts
within  which  they  can  fulfill  themselves  with  self-
confidence   about  the  importance  of  their   exclusive
doctrines.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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