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 %AVOID VULNERABILITY SECURITY DEFENSIVE SUBMISSION 960601

     We  are misled if we assume,  believe,  and act as if
vulnerability  is  the opposite of security;   and  as  if
defensiveness  is a cure for insecurity and vulnerability.
Often  what  appear  to  be  opposites  are  in  fact  not
opposites; but are rather quite other than mere opposites.
(Heretics  refuse to acknowledge paradoxical truths  which
entail the affirmations of apparent opposites.)

     Vulnerability is not the opposite of security. Rather
vulnerability is  an  essential  aspect  of true security.
True security is the freedom to be safely venerable due to
gifts which are freely given and  freely received.    True
security is not an achievement of any kind.

     Defensiveness  is  not  a  cure  for  insecurity  and
vulnerability.  Defensiveness is a tragic manifestation of
immaturity,  insecurity and fear.   Defensiveness is often
an immature response to various forms of vulnerability.

     Defensive   people  are  as  they  are  for  lack  of
familiarity with true security enjoyed as the gift of  the
freedom to be safely vulnerable.   Defensive people cannot
imagine, dream of,  envision or desire true security---for
their  defensiveness has generated many fears  of  healthy
forms of vulnerability.

     Dichotomous people seek to compartmentalize:  people,
ideas,  ideals,  values and behaviors---and to treat  each
according  to  the compartment into which they  have  been
placed.       Such    behavior    generates:   alienation,
misunderstanding,  ignorance,  frustration, fears,  anger,
etc.   Such behavior undermines both personal and communal
integrity  in tragic ways which are usually not recognized
by dichotomous people.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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