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      %MAINTAIN PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITY RESPOND 960815

     We  maintain our personal and communal  integrity  by
how we respond to  threats  to  our  personal and communal
integrity. It  is  rare that attacks upon our personal and
communal  integrity by others undermine our  personal  and
communal integrity---apart from how we chose to respond to
those attacks.    Usually it is how we chose to respond to
such attacks which play a major role  in  our personal and
communal  integrity  being undermined.   To  maintain  our
personal  and  communal integrity we  need  to  recognize,
name,   describe  and  talk about  our  responsibility  to
respond  to threats with integrity---in order to  maintain
our integrity.

    Our personal and communal integrity decay if:

     1.  We  respond   dishonestly  to  threats   to   our
   integrity.

     2.  We fail to respond to threats to our integrity.

     3.  We  accept  uncritically  to statements  made
   about  us  by people who  are:   violent,   mean,
   manipulative,   coercive,   arrogant,    abusive,
   dishonest and/or unfamiliar with true love.

     4.  We accept uncritically and try to answer on their
   own  terms  dichotomous  questions  which  demand
   either/or responses---even though  the  questions
   are predicated upon false assumptions.

     5.  We  accept the notion that in the cosmos there is
   at root  an ultimate conflict between a good  God
   and  a Devil who is an ultimate power of Evil  as
   an active force/spirit seeking  to  undermine our
   personal and communal integrity.

     6.  We  respond  to threats to our integrity  in ways
   which  are:    misleading,    dishonest,arrogant,
   exclusive,  legalistic,  judgmental, condemnatory
   and/or excommunicative.

     7.  We refuse to deal honestly with our human  limits
   and limitations as we respond to threats to our
   integrity.

     8.  We  refuse to acknowledge the role which we  play
   in   undermining   our  personal   and   communal
   integrity  as we respond to external  threats  to
   our personal and communal integrity.

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