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 %CRITICIZE THREATEN EXPOSE CHALLENGE INTIMATE EVIL+980925                     
 %PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS SEXUALITY FRIENDSHIPS SINS 980925
                                                                                                                               
     Often  officious  people  who  are  preoccupied  with                                                                    
issues of control ---  violate people's rights to  privacy       
while trying to right the world which they see as going to       
hell   in   a   hand-cart.    The   usually   offer   more                                                                     
sophisticated,  official and efficient ways to get to hell      
fast;   with all of its sophisticated forms of alienation.                                        
How  are healthy   people  to  transcend  such   officious                                               
people's alienative behaviors?                                        
                                                                                                                               
     1.  Focus in  word and deed upon  both  personal  and                                                                 
communal  integrity ---  as essential ingredients  in  any               
healthy life or community.                                                                
                                                                                                                               
     2.  Focus  upon  the  importance  of  balance  as  an                                                                     
important   principle  in  the  face  of  the  threats  of                                                                     
extremists --- who regard balance  as  a  threat  to their                                 
coercive  ways of controlling   people's    preoccupations      
with  issues   of control.                                                           
                                                                                                                               
     3.  Refuse  to  be dragged into alienative  conflicts  
which   are designed by and use by contentious  people ---                
to keep people's attention   focused  upon   issues  which                                                                    
divide  people ---rather than  upon  creative  cooperative                         
ventures which  can unite people.                                                                    
                                                                                                                               
     4.  Refuse   to  accept  misleading  assumptions  and         
attitudes   which  are built into questions that   assault  
people's  right  to be involved in  private  relationships       
that  are  no threat to anybody's  personal  or   communal               
integrity.                                                                   
                                                                                                                               
     5.  Refuse   to  accept  the  propriety  of   pinning         
alienative  labels  on people,  and then  treating  pinned                                        
people  in terms of the alienative labels which have  been                                        
pinned on them.                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                               
     6.  Refuse to accept,  honor,  or support in any  way      
the  many collusive games of  mutual  self deception which 
threaten  the  integrity  of:   persons,   communications,                                                                
dialogue,     friendships,    relationships,     families,                                                              
organizations, states and nations.                                                                                             
                                                                                                                               
     7.  Refuse to buy into technocratic programs intended  
to solve human dilemmas through the development and use of                                
complex techniques and technologies --- which are designed                                                  
to treat dilemmas as if they were technical problems, pure                                                  
and simple.                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                               
     8.  Intentionally take time-out;  off the tread-mills                                                                     
of life, to gain:    perspective, balance, overview, and a                                                                     
sense of proportion ---  outside of all programs,  systems                                    
and disciplines which  engender preoccupations with issues                                                                     
of  control,   conventions,   conformity,  propriety,  and            
respectability.                                      
                                                                                                                               
     9.  Seek  to  transcend  human   preoccupations  with                                            
exclusivity,        defensiveness,       controls      and                       
invulnerability---regarded as as means to security.                                 
                                                                                                                               
    10.  Acknowledge that human preoccupations with  being                                            
better,     best,    dominant and/or in control---lead  to                                                     
both    personal    and   communal    fragmentation    and                                                                
disintegration.                                                                   
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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