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      %CONTROL PERSONAL INDIVIDUAL SALVATION OTHERS+951106
   %APPEARANCES DECEPTION DISHONESTY DISINTEGRATION+951106
                          %CONFLICT EVIL ALIENATION 951106

     If  the  members of a community  assume/believe  that
they individually are  responsible for their own salvation
in terms of what they believe, do, achieve, avoid, refrain
from,  feel, think, say,  seek---then they are bound to be
preoccupied  with  issues  of  control in  the  manner  of
addicts and their codependent supporters.

     If  we  by  ourselves  are  responsible for  our  own
salvation---then  we  by  ourselves must  seek  to  be  in
control of our own salvation---and so we are bound to seek
to  be  in control of each other---and so be  in  conflict
with each other---and alienated from each other.

     If  we  by  ourselves are  responsible  for  our  own
salvation---then we are bound to seek security in personal
invulnerability  through control---for to trust others  to
do what is  essential to our own salvation  is  to fail to
fulfill our responsibility for assuring our own salvation.

     If we  by ourselves are each responsible for our  own
salvation---then we are led to make assumptions and  adopt
attitudes  and  behavioral patterns which  will  logically
lead    to   personal   and   communal   alienation    and
disintegration.

     It   is   clearly  disintegrative  of   persons   and
communities   to   believe  that  we  by   ourselves   are
responsible  for  our own salvation  in terms of what   we
believe,   do,  achieve, avoid, refrain from, feel, think,
say  and  seek.     Such  a belief leads  us  into  traps,
collusions  and  prisons---and  so  is  to  be   carefully
avoided.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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