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   %MISLEAD PERSONAL COMMUNAL DISINTEGRATION AGENTS+960318
  %MEANS ENDS IDEALS VALUES GOALS ULTIMATE CONCERNS+960318
  %RELIGIOUS LEADERS SCRIPTURE VISIONS COMMANDMENTS 960318

People have  been mislead into personal and communal
disintegration by each of the following:

HOLY SCRIPTURES   RELIGIOUS LEADERS    PROPHETS

DREAMS            VISIONS              ELECTED OFFICIALS

IDEALS            HOPES                TEACHERS

IDEAS             GOALS                PROFESSIONS

VALUES            ASPIRATIONS          PROFESSORS

PARENTS           CHILDREN             ADULTS

TECHNOLOGIES      ADDICTIONS           COLLUSIONS

MEANS             ENDS                 CONCLUSIONS

THEORIES          HYPOTHESES           ASSUMPTIONS

APPEARANCES       PERFORMANCES         DECEPTION

ACTING            PRETENDING           PRESENTATIONS

SALESMEN          LEGISLATION          JUDGES

     In  each  instance  we may be  likewise  misled  into
personal  and  communal  disintegration---if  we  are  not
honestly  seeking  personal  and  communal  integrity   in
intentional ways.

     Personal  and communal integrity are  not  accidental
fruits of random activities.   To enjoy them we need to be
intentionally valuing and honestly seeking to clarify what
is entailed in them---so that we may seek to promote  what
is entailed in them.

     We may be misled by how we frame our visions; seeking
coercively  to assure "goodness"   or to  prevent  "evil".
When we seek to achieve some end coercively---we are  most
likely going to generate alienation which is the root  and
essence of evil.

     We  may seek to fulfill our visions with technologies
which  are  personally manipulative,   coercive,   violent
and/or  alienative---and  suffer  the  bitter  fruits   of
personal manipulations, coercion, violence and alienation.

     In  the  name  of  promoting  the  integrity  of  our
community  we  may seek to assure conformity  to  what  we
regard  as  high standards of proper behavior---and so  we
are likely to  engage in  behaviors  which  are personally
manipulative,    coercive,    violent   and/or   otherwise
alienative; leading to evil relationships.

     Personal  and  communal  integrity are  not  promoted
through  people  conforming  to what some regard  as  high
standards  of proper behavior---for conformity in the long
run is  dis-integrative if it entails  any  manipulations,
coercion, violence or alienation.

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