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 %GOD LOVE IDOLATRY SECURITY SAFELY VULNERABLE EVIL+970326
 %TRUE SECURE WISE PRUDENT MANIPULATIVE ADDICTS SIN 970326

     What  behavior is appropriate in each context depends
upon the nature of the context.   Some contexts offer true
security ---  and  we may in such contexts be fully   open
and honest in safe vulnerability.   Other contexts do  not
offer  true  security and in them we need to be  prudently
cautious;  wise as serpents in our love.

     When  we  are in the presence of manipulative  people
who   are  preoccupied  with issues of control ---  it  is
not  prudent   to pretend that they are not the  kind   of
people which they are.  Such dishonesty is disintegrative,
as  are such  people.      In  their  presence   love   is
expressed  differently  than  love  is  expressed  in  the
presence  of true lovers ---  who are not preoccupied with
issues of control.
way in all contexts.  Love
takes  into consideration the needs of  individual  people
who are unique children of God; and works accordingly.

     Love   does   not  work  in  terms   of   categorical
imperatives which transcend God;   for  God  is Love.   To
treat categorical  imperatives as transcending God ---  is
to make them  into  idols,   and  so   to   be  idolatrous
and disintegrative.  Imperatives which do not show respect
for  individual   differences   between   unique    people
and differences  between contexts---are imperatives  which
are  likely to be disintegrative and unworthy of  respect;
and so are not worthy of ultimate respect and concern.

                                                                                                                               
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