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%FICTIONAL LIKENESS SAMENESS LACK DIFFERENCES OTHER 951111

     Often we are trapped by our own and/or other people's
fictions about how identical,  alike and the same we  are.
Such  fictions  make it seem easy to operate in  terms  of
rules which say  how we should respond to situations;  how
we should behave.   If  we are  all  alike---then  in each
situation  we should all behave alike---or so it seems  to
people who like to  deal  in terms of over-simplifications
of the nature of reality and of different people.

     It  is too complicated to devise rules,   regulations
and prescriptions  which will tell really different people
who  have  really  different  histories,   fears,   needs,
desires,   dispositions,   physiologies,   and  hereditary
traits---how to behave in particular situations.   Thus it
is  useful  to  people  who  can  deal  only  with  simple
situations to pretend that all people are more alike  than
they really are.  Then people who are really different and
find that  they cannot obey  such  simplistic  rules  with
personal honesty and integrity; are simply labeled as evil
people---to  keep  the situation apparently simple.     Of
course once such honest people of integrity are labeled as
evil   people---their   perceptions,    descriptions   and
observations  are  not worthy of consideration and  it  is
simple to condemn,  reject and excommunicate them from the
fellowship of those  exclusive few who enjoy the salvation
of simplification.

     Honest  people  of  integrity seek to  find  ways  to
promote   personal   and  communal  integrity---with   due
consideration  given  to each  person's  unique  heritage,
history, inheritance, fears, needs, desires, dispositions,
physiologies, and hereditary traits.

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