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       %ROOTS HUMAN PROBLEMS DILEMMAS SELF CENTERED 960825

     Many human problems and dilemmas flow from our  human
tendencies toward being self-centered:

     1.  Selfishness often takes the form of viewing  self
as a center toward which goods and services should flow.

     2.  Paranoia has to do with viewing self as a  center
toward which ill-will and anger flow.

     3.  Dictatorships pertain to a person dictating  what
all others should and must do.

     4.  Codependency pertains to a person trying to be  a
servant  beyond human limitations;  a  central  source  of
unlimited unlimited services.

     5.  Provincialism pertains to thinking that the whole
significant cosmos is close to self geographically;  close
to one's own province or county.

     6.  Ethnocentrism  pertains  to  thinking  that   all
significant  culture  is rooted in one's  own  culture  or
community.

     7.  Nationalism  pertains   to  thinking   that   all
significant  governmental merit is centered on  one's  own
nation.

     8.  Worldism pertains  to thinking that all of  God's
concerns are centered on one's own planet.

     We are so completely interconnected and  interrelated
that it is dishonest to look upon any one center as having
ultimate  status for good,  ill,  service,  need,   power,
knowledge,  wisdom or any other feature.   Such dishonesty
leads to personal and communal disintegration.

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