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   %RECOGNIZE DISINTEGRATIVE EXPECTATIONS STANDARDS 971213                                                                   
                                                                                                                               
     How are we to recognize disintegrative  expectations,                                               
standards,   laws,  requirements,  punishments  and  other                                                               
efforts  which  are  ostensibly designed  to  promote  and                                                                     
protect   personal  and  communal  integrity?    Not   all                                                                
behaviors which are ostensibly "good"  are truly what they                                                       
are  thought/intended to be?   We may know them  by  their                                                                     
fruits ---  but can we recognize them before their  fruits                                                                     
are ripe and bitter?                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                               
     We  need  to  be  cautious  when  ostensibly   "good"                 
behaviors entail:                                                       
                                                                                                                               
     1.  Alienative coercion, violence or manipulations.           
                                                                                                                               
     2.  Secrecy, dishonesty, deception, or pretentions. 
                                                                                                                               
     3.  Self-righteousness      and/or      condescending       
attitudes.                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                               
     4.  Unbalanced/unchecked exercise of power.                                             
                                                                                                                               
     5.  Exclusivity and/or excommunications.                       
                                                                                                                               
     6.  Contentious "either/or" thinking and/or debates.                
                                                                                                                               
     7.  Much telling, but little careful listening.                                                                           
                                                                                                                               
     8.  Preoccupations with perfection over dialogue.                                                                         
                                                                                                                               
     9.  Ignorance/prejudice engendered by exclusivity.                       
                                                                                                                               
     10. Indifference to personal and communal integrity.                                     
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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