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   %COMMUNAL COMMON GROUND CONTENTION CONFLICT EVIL+981007                
  %RELAXATION MEDITATION PRAYER INTIMACIES SEX FALL+981007
 %AFFECTION FRIENDSHIP COMMUNICATION DIALOGUE FIGHT+981007                                                                
 %TOGETHER COOPERATION CONTROL ISSUES ADDICTION GOD+981007                                                
 %KNOWLEDGE GOOD MORALITY CONFORMITY FORMALITY FAIL+981007            
 %COLLUSION DOUBLE BIND BLIND DEAF DISHONEST OBJECT 981007                                                   
                                                                                                                               
     Many  communities  are  defined  by how  and  why the               
members  of  the  community  seek to  regulate, manipulate                                                                
and/or control:                                                           
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
relaxation       meditations         prayers                                                                                   
                                                                                                                               
discernment      perceptions         intimacies        
                                                                                                                               
affections       friendships         communications                                                                
                                                                                                                               
cooperation      togetherness        dialogues                                                                                 
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
    Personal  and communal integrity are often  sacrificed                                                                
by  people  who are preoccupied with  issues  of  control.                                                           
Such people often forget and/or ignore the fact that power                                             
corrupts --- and absolute power corrupts absolutely in the                                             
absence of checks and balances.                                                                                                
                                                                                                                               
    People who are allowed to arrogate unto themselves the    
power  to  control  intimate  personal  relationships   as                     
suggested above ---  without checks and balances ---   are                                                                     
granted absolute power and are corrupted absolutely in the                                             
absence of checks and balances.   In their fearful efforts                                                                     
to  control  all private relationships which  might  cause                                                           
them:  embarrassment,  inconvenience,  discomfort,   envy,                                                                     
jealously,  confusion,  doubt,  and/or loss of control ---                                                           
they    sow   the   seeds   of   personal   and   communal                                                                
disintegration.   They dare not let people get together in                                                                   
unsupervised ways which might lead to unregulated forms of      
knowledge.     They  are  motivated and  guided  by  their                                                                     
preoccupations   with  issues  of  control  ---   and they                                                           
are corrupted  to  the  extent  that they  are   permitted                                                                     
and  encouraged   to   seek  to  be  in  control   without                                                           
restraint,  checks or balance.    Communities within which                             
such   people  are  overtly  or  tacitly  in  charge---are                                                                    
communities    which   are   decaying,     disintegrating,                                                                
fragmenting, and falling-apart.                                                                                                
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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