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%PERSONAL MEANING FULFILLMENT SALVATION SELF ESTEEM+960405
 %COMMUNAL AFFIRMATION INTEGRITY ACCEPTANCE RESPECT 960405

     Individual humans  cannot  in  isolation achieve true
personal meaning, fulfillment, salvation or a healthy self
esteem.    Such  benefits  can be enjoyed only  within the
context  of  a  truly accepting community  in  which  each
member  has an  unquestioned right to be  a  participating
member of the community.  Such benefits are not the fruits
of isolated personal achievements.  Rather they are in the
character of gifts  which  are  enjoyed within integrative
contexts by  integrative  members of the communities which
provide the integrative contexts.

     Individual humans  are critically  dependent upon the
acceptance of an integrative community of integrity. There
are  tragic  consequences  if  elected  or  self appointed
leaders are  respected when they play supportive roles  in
rejecting,    ejecting,   excommunicating   or   otherwise
depriving creative  non-conformal members of the community
of  their  right  to  be a  participating  member  of  the
community.     Such  actions  by  leaders  undermine   the
integrity of the community as a  whole, by undermining the
prerequisites for personal integrity.

     By the  same token, individual members of a community
cannot  with  impunity  undermine  the  prerequisites  for
communal  integrity  by  withdrawing from open  and honest
participation in  the daily life of the community.    Such
tragic   withdrawal  may  entail  intentional  destructive
activity;   or  merely  entail  indifference,    lethargy,
laziness, or arrogance.  In each instance  the  withdrawal
from  open   and  honest  communal  dialogue  has   tragic
consequences.

     Each  community  needs to work diligently  to  insure
that all  members of the community contribute as best they
can to promoting  and  maintaining  the  integrity  of the
community and the personal integrity of the members of the
community.  The use of coercion, threats, violence,  fear,
intimidation,   and  conformal  expectations  is  counter-
productive in these regards.   Such  use promotes personal
and communal disintegration;  not integration.   Such  use
promote the withdrawal of members of  the  community  from
participating  openly  and honestly in  the  life  of  the
community.    Such withdrawals undermine the integrity  of
the community and of its members.  Such withdrawals cannot
be prevented through the   use   of  coercion,    threats,
violence, fear, intimidation, and conformal expectations.

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