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 %PREOCCUPATION PRESCRIPTIONS PROSCRIPTION WIDE NET 960725

     People who  are preoccupied  with  prescriptions  and
proscriptions  in  terms  of  which  to  make   legalistic
judgements about who is good and who is evil---are usually
operating  within a paradigm which makes it impossible for
them  to  accurately prescribe integrative  behaviors  and
proscribe  disintegrative behaviors.   In their  confusion
they  often  end up  proscribing  significant  integrative
behaviors and so inhibit creativity and the works of Love.
They  often prescribe disintegrative behaviors which  also
inhibit creativity and the works of Love.  God is Love.

     The paradigm  of  people  who  are  preoccupied  with
prescriptions and proscriptions shifts attention away from
respecting and promoting personal and communal  integrity;
and towards the manipulation of  appearances---dishonestly
if necessary.   Integrity is sacrificed in order to appear
to    have   conformed   with   the   prescriptions    and
proscriptions---for  they  cannot be enforced without  the
assistance and cooperation of the people who are unable to
live in terms of them.   The paradigm presumes people will
be  honest  while encouraging them to be dishonest.    The
paradigm  assumes  that what counts is objective  behavior
and so encourages misleading objective behavior to make it
appear  that  there is conformity.    The  paradigm  lacks
integrity  and  so  promotes both  personal  and  communal
disintegration.

     Because  the   people   who  are   preoccupied   with
prescriptions and proscriptions are generally  indifferent
to  personal and communal integrity---they are willing  to
sacrifice personal  and communal  integrity in attempts to
cause  people  to  conform;   e.g.,   through  threats  of
punishment and the imposition  of  punishments  which  are
alienative and ineffective.   They treat people as objects
which can be manipulated and controlled;   rather  than as
possible   participants   in   cooperative   relationships
characterized by mutuality, balance, respect, openness and
honesty.   They are less interested in the consequences of
their threats  and punishment---than in the self-righteous
sense of themselves which they achieve through their self-
righteous  judgements.    They seem to be unaware the  the
essence   of   evil  is  alienation---rather   than   non-
conformity.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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