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   %CONTENTIOUS DIVISIVE AFFIRM ALIENATION CONFLICT+971120
   %COMMUNAL EXCLUSIVITY MOOD MANNER INTENT CONTENT+971120
    %DENIAL ULTIMATE CONCERN BALANCE DIFFERENT EVIL+971120
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           The  effect  of making affirmations ---   depends  at                                                                     
      least as much  upon  the  mood  and manner of  the  making                                                                     
      of  the affirmations  ---   as upon the intent and content                
      of   the  affirmations.    Setting aside the  intents  and                                                                     
      contents   of affirmations,   let us consider how the mood                
      and manner  of making affirmations affects the effects  of                                                                     
      making them.                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                     
           1.  Some  affirmations  are  made  by  denying  other                                                               
      peoples'  affirmations ---  which are perceived to  be  in        
      conflict  with the affirmation which is intended.   It  is                                              
      hoped  that  through double-think the  other  people  will                                
      correctly  infer what the intended affirmation is ---   in                                                                     
      spite   of  the  fact  that  the  manner  of  making   the                                                                     
      affirmation   is  a  "slap-in-their-faces."    Denial   is                                                                     
      an exclusive mode of making affirmations.                       
                                                                                                                                     
           2.  Other  affirmations  are made in  exclusive  ways      
      which claim that each affirmation is of ultimate power and                                             
      authority ---   putting  down any other affirmations which               
      might   call  for  well  balanced  consideration  of   all                                                                     
      different  kinds of  people's  experiences,   insights and                                   
      beliefs.    Exclusivity  occurs  in many   modes of making             
      affirmations.                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                     
           3.  Yet   other   affirmations   are    made  through                                
      excommunications of those people to whom the  affirmations                                                                
      are  intended  to  deny:  attention,   hearings,  respect,                                      
      affection,   community  membership,   fellowship,   honor,                                                                
      authority  and  power.    This  is  yet  another  form  of                                             
      exclusivity --- directed explicitly at persons as persons.                       
                                                                                                                                     
           4.  Some  affirmations  demand conformity in behavior            
      on the part of others;  and demand the exclusion of  those                       
      unfaithful  and undisciplined people  who  fail  to  share                                                                    
      ultimate faith in and preoccupation with the  injunctions,                                                                     
      prescriptions,    proscriptions,    commandments,    laws,                                                                     
      judgements and condemnations which are  thereby woven into  
      a fabric of exclusivity.                       
                                                                                                                                     
           5.  Some   affirmations  are  conveyed  through   the                                
      wearing  of  the  robes  of:   purity,    self-discipline,                                                      
      self-control,    self-confidence,      self-righteousness,       
      certainty,     perfection,     arrogance,     intolerance,  
      contentiousness,    and   numerous  community   management                
      techniques.                                                  
                                                                                                                                     
           People who treat each other exclusively tend to  form                       
      increasingly exclusive small groups which cannot trust any               
      other groups which are seen as being "different".     They                                     
      all engender both personal and communal  disintegration of                                                                
      their own and other communities and persons.   They do not                   
      and cannot see what they are  doing to themselves and each    
      other ---  because  their dedications are exclusive of any               
      concerns for personal and communal integrity.                               
                                                                                                                                     
                               (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
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