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%COMPLEMENTARY CONFLICTS COOPERATION LIBERATION SIN+970703
%EVIL ALIENATION DIFFERENCE INTEGRITY REJECT EVIL+970703
%CONFORMITY LAW LEGAL REDEMPTION RECONCILIATION+970703
%GOD THOUGHT ATTITUDE DESIRE VISION FANTASIES HOPE+970703
%ASPIRE IDEAL VALUE REPENT TREE KNOWLEDGE GOOD EVIL 970703
Often different people who might work together in
cooperation --- instead work together in conflict. Instead
of acknowledging the ways in which their differences could
enable them to become a complete whole community with
integrity --- they regard their differences as grounds for
mutual suspicion, fear, rejection and resentment.
Some people regard themselves as having a sacred duty
to promote conformity to a set of good God-given rules and
regulations. They are unrepentant in their efforts to
control other persons': thoughts, attitudes, desires,
visions, fantasies, hopes, aspirations, ideals and values.
They are unrepentant because they have eaten from the tree
of the knowledge of good and evil --- and presume to know
who is good and who is evil. They are certain and
insistent that they are right and righteous --- through
their superior knowledge of God's will.
Other people regard themselves as the beneficiaries
of God's efforts to reconcile Her/His alienated Children
with each other --- and with Herself/Himself. They regard
themselves as liberated by God from human addictive
fixations upon conformity related to: laws, rules,
regulations, proscriptions, prescriptions, and
expectations. Such liberated people are thankful for
their God-given redemption --- and seek to live creatively
in response to God's reconciling Love, and to fulfill the
possibilities of their many differing gifts. They seek to
be true to themselves and each other within intimate
relationships which are open and honest --- because they
know that they have received from God and from each other
gracious gifts of the freedom to be safely vulnerable in
authentic dialogue, which is open and honest.
Many controllers are guilty of engendering
unrepentant dishonest reactions to their unrepentant
efforts to control liberated Children's: thoughts,
attitudes, desires, visions, fantasies, hopes,
aspirations, ideals and values. Controllers cannot
appreciate, understand, respect or tolerate others who
live without genuine concern for good: rules, regulations,
proscriptions, prescriptions, and expectations.
Many liberated Children engage in unrepentant efforts
to be true to themselves and God's Children --- because of
God's liberation of them from human addictive fixations
upon conformity related to: laws, rules, regulations,
proscriptions, prescriptions, and expectations. Liberated
Children do not respect the behaviors of compulsive people
living lives fixated upon: rules, regulations,
proscriptions, prescriptions and expectations.
The spectrum of patterns of human behaviors is not
limited to just two alternatives. There are, of course,
people who, in the name of "liberation", show no respect
for any rules, regulations or guidance --- and rebel
against all of them. On the other hand, there are some
people who prudently respect helpful rules, regulations
and guidance --- and do not try to control anybody.
Continuous spectrums of alternatives abound, but many
people can see only the extremes of the one primary
spectrum which they stand at the end of --- and they
therefore see all people in terms of the opposite
background extreme of the primary spectrum they themselves
stand in.
Tragically many people are fixated upon their special
end of their special spectrum --- regarded as the one and
only means to salvation. Through their lack of balance
they promote fear of different parts of their spectrum and
of different spectrums than their own. They and others
like them --- cannot become familiar with the different
parts of alternative spectrums. They specialize and focus
only upon "either/or" thinking and demands --- and so
engender more fear.
Tragically many people cannot let go of their
enduring conflicts with people who are different --- and
therefore cannot learn to cooperate with complementary
people to form an integrated whole community --- comprised
of different kinds of people who enjoy both personal and
communal integrity together, with mutual respect and
consideration.
God's work of liberation and healing is not complete.
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