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%TRANSCENDENT IDEAS IDEALS VALUES PRINCIPLES DEVILS 980629                                       
                                                                                                                               
     When  we  are confronted with FIRST ORDER and  SECOND                                                                     
ORDER  evil behavior and/or sins we need to work  together                 
to discern transcendent ideas,  ideals, values, principles                                         
and  ways  of  dealing  with  conflict  ---  in  order  to      
transcend  coercion,   violence and  human  disintegrative           
tendencies.                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                               
     If  we  cannot agree upon ways in which to  transcend      
all that tends to tear us apart ---  we are bound to  fall                                                                     
into   patterns  of  assumptions,   attitudes,    beliefs,  
perceptions,  thinking and feeling which lead to  personal        
and   communal   disintegration.      Such   patterns   of                                                                
disintegration   destroy  all  that  we  can  affirm  with                                                                   
integrity.   Whatever the patterns  may be ---  unbalanced                                                                   
ideas, ideals, values, principles and ways of dealing with      
conflict which lead to disintegration --- do not merit our                                              
respect or  support.   We  continue to be their victims if                                      
we continue to respect and/or support them.                                      
                                                                                                                               
     Often  we  are clear about FIRST ORDER evil  behavior                                       
and/or sins ---  but we are not at all clear about  SECOND                                                                     
ORDER  evil behavior and/or sins --- of people who respond                                  
to FIRST ORDER evil behavior and/or sins in disintegrative                                       
ways.   We are not often clear about how and why responses      
to  FIRST ORDER evil behavior and/or sins lead to personal                                       
and  communal  disintegration ---  and so are SECOND ORDER                                                                
evil  behaviors  and/or sins.   We need to develop healthy                 
patterns of mutual understanding about how to respond with                            
personal and communal  integrity ---  to  FIRST ORDER evil                                       
behavior and/or sins.                                                       
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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