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   %LAW COMMAND PROHIBIT PROSCRIBE PRESCRIBE FORBID 951102

     Many people focus much attention, energy and conflict
upon  their  favored laws,   commandments,   prohibitions,
proscriptions and prescriptions.   Such people  view their
efforts are righteous because to them the behaviors  which
they seek to encourage and require are clearly reasonable,
prudent and proper---and  the behaviors which they seek to
discourage and prevent are clearly unreasonable, imprudent
and  improper.   For such people it is  often  exceedingly
difficult  to  recognize that no  matter  how  reasonable,
prudent  and  proper are the behaviors which they seek  to
encourage and require;  and no  matter  how  unreasonable,
imprudent  and improper are the behaviors which they  seek
to  discourage and prevent---their MANNER OF  APPROACH  is
usually  alienative,   dysfunctional,   ineffective,   and
disintegrative   because  it  engenders  much  dishonesty,
deception,  imbalance,   coercion,  anger,  resentment and
violence.   Often such  people  regard  their  cause as so
obviously  righteous, that they cannot see how ineffective
their MANNER OF APPROACH is, and so they can justify their
MANNER  OF APPROACH and their  particular  goals  only  in
idolatrous ways---as foci of ultimate concern and worship.
People who do not  worship  their gods  are obviously evil
degenerates with whom one should not be in open and honest
dialogue.    Thus  they  protect  themselves  against  the
painful truths which they do not want to face.

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