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%HONEST REPORT TRAGIC CONSEQUENCES MISTAKES COURAGE+970402
%COHERENT SIN COLLUSIVE GAMES MUTUAL SELF DECEPTION+970402
%DOMINANT FASHION RESPECT EXPECTATION CONFORM EVIL 970402
Neither we nor our communities can learn from the
tragic consequences of our mistakes---if we are not en-
couraged to report our own personal experiences openly and
honestly.
Often we are dis-couraged when we seek to report
openly and honestly our own experiences of the tragic
consequences of our mistakes; whether they be our own
individual mistakes, other persons' mistakes, or mistakes
of the community as a whole.
It takes real courage to be open and honest about our
own experiences---if what we have experienced is contrary
to the "coherent" communal expectations/demands which fit
into the dominant collusive games of mutual self-deception
that are currently fashionable and respected in our
community. It is "safer" to "go with the flow". Only
highly courageous people do not "go with the flow".
The emphasis is usually upon conformity to
expectations---at the expense of open and honest
descriptions of diverse personal experiences.
We often emphasize rules, regulations, commandments,
pro-hibitions, in-hibitions, pro-scriptions, pre-
scriptions and "holy" scriptures---at the expense of open
and honest de-scriptions of our own personal experiences
of the tragic consequences of mistakes made. The tragic
consequence of such behaviors is not learning from
mistakes and endlessly repeating mistakes.
In our efforts to control "evil" people we engage in
behaviors which generate alienative relationships that are
the essence of evil. If we do not recognize alienative
relationships as the essence of evil, we cannot deal
wisely with whatever else there is that people regard as
evil.
If we are not en-couraged to report our own personal
experiences openly and honestly---we are trapped in evil
relationships.
When we are dis-couraged in our efforts to report
openly and honestly our own experiences of the tragic
consequences of our mistakes---we are trapped in evil
relationships.
If what we have experienced is contrary to the
"coherent" communal expectations/demands which fit into
the dominant collusive games of mutual self-deception that
are currently fashionable and respected by our friends---
we are probably trapped in evil relationships.
If we "go with the flow" which is contrary to the
truth as we see it---we are trapped in evil relationships.
If the emphasis is usually upon conformity to
expectations at the expense of open and honest
descriptions of diverse personal experiences, we are
trapped in evil relationships.
If the emphasis in our community is upon rules,
regulations, commandments, pro-hibitions, in-hibitions,
pro-scriptions, pre-scriptions and "holy" scriptures---we
are trapped in evil relationships.
If we are embedded in many efforts to control "evil"
people and encourage conformity---we are trapped in evil
relationships.
When we are trapped in evil relationships we are
alienated, out-of-touch, estranged, un-informed, mis-
informed, pre-judged, pre-judiced, mis-led, confused, and
bound to make many tragic mistakes from which we will
learn nothing.
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