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 %IMPORTANT DISCERN MEAN SIGNIFICANCE SCRIPTURE SIN+960317
   %DOCTRINE RITUAL INSTITUTION ORGANIZATION CHURCH+960317
 %EVIL ADDICTION CONTROL COLLUSION CODEPEND FAILURE+960317
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     It is important  to work regularly on  discerning and
describing  the consequences and import of how people have
used and abused the wide range  of scriptures,  doctrines,
rituals, institutions,  organizations, churches,  schools,
colleges and universities.

     The  import of reflexive realities is not embedded in
any eternal/essential aspect of the reflexive realities---
for  reflexive realities  change along with the people who
reflect upon themselves and upon the realities.    The use
and abuse  of  reflexive  realities changes their imports.
The  use and abuse of them engenders and imports new  (and
often    dis-integrative)    important     meanings    and
significances.

     What tools  mean to people depends upon how they have
used  and  abuse the tools;   and upon how they have  been
used  and  abused  through  the use of the  tools.    When
reflexive realities are used and abused by people who  are
seeking to be in control,  the people who are the  victims
of  such  use and abuse  learn  to regard those  reflexive
tools in new and different ways---which are ways which may
be contrary to the ways in which those reflexive realities
have  been  regarded in the past by different  people  who
have not been so victimized. Thus  the  reflexive meanings
and   significance  of  reflexive  realities/tools  change
according to how they are used and abused.

     Religious    scriptures,     doctrines,      rituals,
traditions, institutions,  organizations,   buildings  and
related realities are reflexive realities---whose meanings
and significance  change  depending upon how they are used
and abused by  people  who  are  coercive,   manipulative,
addictive,  collusive;  and by people who are  codependent
supporters  of such people.    Religiosity,   piety,   and
purity  are  not effective defenses against  such  changes
being made through use and abuse.

     The integrative  aspects  of  scriptures,  doctrines,
rituals,    traditions,    institutions,    organizations,
buildings and related reflexive realities can be preserved
only through persistently seeking to  promote personal and
communal integrity through focusing upon those integrative
aspects.   Those integrative aspects cannot  be  preserved
through efforts to prevent change,  growth, evolution, and
devolution.   Such efforts to control are bound to be dis-
integrative, rather than integrative.

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