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  %TEMPTATION CONTEXT INADEQUATE PARADIGM FAIL EVIL+961209
%COLLUSIVE GAME SELF DECEPTION TERROR KNOWLEDGE SIN+961209
%OBJECTION AVOID CONTEXT RISK TRUST AMBIGUITY DOUBT+961209
  %PARADOX UNCERTAIN CONFUSION IDOLATRY HERESY SELF+961209
%RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALS SCRIPTURES SELECT INTERPRET 961209

     Many  fundamentalists who are playing collusive games
of mutual self deception are terrified at the prospect  of
seeing anybody trapped in a context wherein their paradigm
does   not place before them a sure way of  knowing  which
one  way  is the right way to behave---and so which  other
ways  are the wrong ways to behave.   They often object to
people  placing  themselves in such tempting   contexts---
for   they pray that they not be led into  temptation  and
feel that it is  their  duty to do what they can to  avoid
temptations themselves;  and to help other people to avoid
temptations.

     Contexts  wherein  there  is no sure way  of  knowing
which  one-way   is  the   one   right-way-to-behave---are
contexts  which lead  people  to  encounter:    ambiguity,
paradoxes,  uncertainty,  confusion,   doubt and their own
idolatry and heresy.     Idolatry and heresy often  entail
refusing   to   be  honest  about  personal   limitations,
ambiguity,   paradoxes, uncertainty, confusion and  doubt.
Thus  people who are playing  collusive  games  of  mutual
self   deception   are terrified at the  prospect  of  the
truth  from evident---and they take  steps to prevent  the
truth from being  made evident.  They work to minimize how
often   people  find themselves in contexts   where    the
limitations of their paradigm become evident.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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