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    %COMPULSIVE DICHOTOMOUS CONTROL REPRESS PRETEND 961030

     Compulsive  dichotomous  controllers often  have  not
accepted  complexity and  ambiguity as normal and  healthy
parts of living.  Compulsivity,  preoccupation with issues
of control and dichotomous questions and a refusal to deal
openly  and  honestly  with complexity and  ambiguity  are
inter-related.

     People  who  are embarrassed by ambiguous  situations
seek to  avoid  them  by  pretending  that  complex and/or
ambiguous situations  are simpler than  they  really  are.
Thus they get involved in the use of pretense,  deception,
dishonesty  and collusions as coping  tools.    Continuous
spectrums of alternative possibilities are too complex; so
they turn them into occasions for choosing either of  just
two possibilities; what they call the "good" and what they
call  the  "evil"  one.   Life is no  more  than  choosing
between "good" and "evil" dichotomous choices.   When they
are done  with simplifying life each situation  entails  a
choice between "good" and "evil";  not any choices between
many alternative integrative courses of action.

     Part  of  the program for living which disintegrative
people  often create in the name of God---is a pattern  of
repression of the awareness of, or choice of, alternatives
which  they  have  not called "good".     Any  integrative
alternatives  which they have not called "good"  they call
"evil"   and  they  repress  the  possibilities  of  those
integrative alternatives.   They make life too complicated
for them to tolerate.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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