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 %TRAP PRISON DOUBLE BIND STUCK RUT BLIND DEAF EVIL+980920                                       
  %DISHONESTY COLLUSION ADDICTION CODEPENDENCE SINS+980920                                                
 %IDEALS VALUES BELIEFS ATTITUDES PROCEDURE RITUALS+980920             
%ASSUMPTION CONVICTION CONFESSION PREJUDICE VISIONS 980920                                                                     
                                                                                                                               
     When we have fallen into a trap,   prison, or double-  
bind ---- often we cannot recognize what our situation is;                                                            
because  it blinds  us,   and makes us deaf to calls  from                          
the  outside world.                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                               
     When  we  have fallen into dysfunctional patterns  of  
dishonesty,  collusions,  addictions,  codependence,   and                                                
alienative  behaviors  ---  we cannot recognize  what  our                                        
situation  is;  because it blinds us and makes us deaf  to                          
calls from the outside world.                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                               
     When  our  ideals,   values,   beliefs,    attitudes,             
procedures,     rituals,     assumptions,     convictions,              
confessions,    prejudices   and  visions  lead  us   into  
alienative  relationships ---  we cannot rescue ourselves,                                        
save ourselves, redeem ourselves, or transcend ourselves.                                                            
                                                                                                                               
     In  the  above  situations we  are  often  tragically                                                                     
preoccupied  with issues of control --- in futile  efforts                                                           
to do what we ourselves cannot do.   We disagree and argue                                                            
about  what we  can and should   do   ---    and  try   to                                                                     
compensate   for   our  disagreements  with  trying harder                                                            
and    making   even   more  extreme    sacrifices---which                                                                     
compound  our  dilemmas   which  we  take  to  be   merely                                                            
technical problems which should be solved our way.      
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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