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    %DUTY CONCEAL INTIMATE DETAILS ABOUT SELF OTHER+971003                     
  %OPEN HONEST INTEGRATIVE RELATIONSHIPS SEXUAL SIN+971003
 %FAIL KEEP SECRET INFORMATION KNOWLEDGE UNDERSTAND 971003                                                    
                                                                                                                               
     Is  is  reasonable  that  we  must  conceal  intimate                     
details about  our  self  and/or  our  relationships  with                                                      
intimate others from:                     
                                                                                                                               
     1.  Ourself?                                                      
     2.  Our most intimate other?                     
     3.  Our most intimate friends?                     
     4.  Our more casual friends?                                                            
     5.  Our casual acquaintances?                                                            
     6.  Members of our church?                                                            
     7.  People at work?                                                                    
     8.  People in discussion groups?                                                                    
     9.  People with whom we are in conflict?                                              
     10. Manipulative/addictive people?                                                
     11. Our mortal enemies?                                                            
     12. God?                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                               
     Is it reasonable that the answers to all of the above                                                                     
questions  be the same answer in each instance?   If  not,                                                                     
where is it reasonable that the answers differ --- and for                                     
what reasons should they differ.                                     
                                                                                                                               
     Should  our  patterns  of  attitudes,    assumptions,                                                            
ideals, values, principles, thinking, and rules of conduct                                         
make  sense  to us  ---  or is it  proper  that  there  be                                                                     
conflicts  among  them  which  should  be  maintained  and                                              
respected,  in spite  of  a  sense on  our  part that  the                                      
conflicts  are arbitrary,  capricious and/or  prejudicial.                                              
Is due process out of  order here?   Should due process be              
out of order here.                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                               
     If  it is essential to our welfare and the welfare of                  
others who are near, dear and/or controllers of us ---that                                                           
we should  keep  certain  essential  pieces of information                  
(about  ourselves  and/or others)  secret and out  of  the                                                            
hands of enemy forces ---  what than are we to  do when we                                                                     
are in the presence of people who are:                                                                    
                                                                                                                               
     1.  More  skilled  than we are in extracting in  wily                                                                     
ways  information  from  us than we know  how  to  extract      
information from them?                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                               
     2.  Better able than we to read between the  lines of                                                                     
what is actually said in words --- to figure out  what  is                                                                     
going through minds?                                
                                                                                                                               
     3.  Better able than we to read eyes through  intense                                
eye contact?                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                               
     4.  Better  able  than we to intuit  and/or  actually                                                                     
read minds?                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                               
     In such situations how are we to know how much of our                                               
top secret information is leaking out --- without us being                                                             
aware of the security leaks?                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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