This is http://www.essayz.com/a9603232.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %PERSONAL COMMUNAL LOVE ACCEPT CONNECT INTEGRITY+960323 %ALIENATION EXCOMMUNICATION CONNECT SUPPORT EVIL+960323 %DOMINANT COLLUSIVE GAMES MUTUAL SELF DECEPTION+960323 %VOCABULARY LANGUAGE WORD POINT REPRESENT DIALOGUE 960323 Communal acceptance, love, connectedness, support and affirmations are essential to personal integrity. It is not enough to be accepted, loved, connected, supported and/or affirmed in isolated ways by one or many isolated individuals. Not even a large collection of such isolated relationships is equivalent to true communal acceptance, love, connectedness, support and affirmations---especially if the isolated relationships are taboo or otherwise threaten dominant collusive games of mutual self deception which define a community. One of our difficulties is that we do not have a generally accepted vocabulary with which to point to COMMUNAL acceptance, love, connectedness, support and affirmations. Yet, the integration of persons into the fabric of communal life is essential to personal and communal integrity within any community. People who are not integrated into the fabric of communal life are likely to be or become threats to the integrity of the fabric of communal life; as they are likely to disintegrate personally and to not care about the integrity of the community around them. The excommunication and/or alienation of an individual from the community around them is dangerous to the community and to the individual. Communal integrity depends upon personal commitments to seek, support and affirm both personal and communal integrity. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================