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 %WISDOM PRUDENT WISE PATTERN ATTITUDE THOUGHTS GOD+981215                                                                     
  %FEELINGS CONVICTIONS BELIEFS UNBALANCED IDENTITY+981215             
  %EXTREMISM EXCLUSIVITY PURITY IMPERFECTION DEVILS+981215                       
  %COERCION PUNISHMENT VIOLENCE TERROR WAR MORALITY+981215           
 %LIBERATION ESCAPE DOUBLE BINDS PRISONS FEARS SICK+981215                                                                     
 %SALVATION REDEMPTION FORGIVENESS PUNISHMENT ALIEN+981215                                        
  %DICHOTOMY PARADOX DENY AMBIGUITY DOUBT CERTAINTY+981215                                                                     
%PARLIAMENTARY ROBERTS RULES ORDER BUSINESS MEETING 981215                                                                     
                                                                                                                               
      We cannot deal wisely/prudently with the patterns of                                                                     
attitudes,   thoughts,  feelings and convictions of people                                                                    
who  are  out of balance ---  without being able  in  some                                                             
small way to identify with and understand their attitudes,      
thoughts,   feelings and convictions.    If we are utterly                                                                     
free of all fears,  anxieties,  extremisms,   dichotomies,                                                                     
etc.  ---  we cannot deal wisely/prudently with people who                                                                    
are fearful, anxious,   extremists and prone to reduce all                                                                     
issues to some form of either/or.                                                                                              
                                                                                                                               
     Either/or issues can take many forms; among which are               
the following:                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                               
     1.  Pick   only   two dichotomous items  to  consider                                                                     
important   and  then  pick one of the only two  items  as                                                                     
your one and  only priority which is supremely important.                                                            
                                                                                                                               
     2.  Here are only two items which you may consider as                                                                     
important;   pick one of these two which I present to  you                                                                     
and consider at as supremely important.                                                                                        
                                                                                                                               
     3.  My/our  way  is supremely important;    you  must      
either agree with me/us  and  support me/us without doubt/                                                                     
question; or you must be our mortal enemy.                                                            
                                                                                                                               
     4.  God demands that we do as follows;  you must obey                                                                     
without question or die a terrible death.                                                                                      
                                                                                                                               
     From  the point of view of people who are  imprisoned                                                                    
within such attitudes, thoughts,  feelings and convictions                             
it is  improper to  suggest  any creative alternatives for               
additional consideration. The only proper action is to say                                                                     
YES or NO to a  given  possibility  which has already been                                                                     
formulated --- within the framework of a collusive game of                             
mutual self deception.   Such people's imprisonment,  dis- 
ease, sickness,   imbalance,   extremism---is often beyond                                                                     
our imagination;   and  so it is nearly impossible for  us                                                            
to respond wisely/prudently.                                  
                                                                                                                               
     If an organization which is conducting business under                                                    
Roberts'   Rules of Order is dominated by people for  whom                                                     
the  only  proper  action is to say YES or NO to  a  given                                                                     
motion   which  has  already  been  formulated  ---    the                                                                     
organization  may  become paralyzed by  conflicts  between                                              
extremists  who  cannot respond wisely/prudently  to  each                                  
other's   mutually  exclusive  ways  of  approaching   and      
perceiving  each other.    Such an organization  needs  to        
find  ways   for   finding   common  ground   outside   of      
procedures governed by Roberts' Rules of Order.              
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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