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%PREOCCUPATION ISSUE CONTROL DISCIPLINE PUNISH EVIL 981216                                       
                                                                                                                               
     People  who  are preoccupied with issues  of  control                                                           
rarely  deal  with such issues in ways which promote  both      
personal  and communal integrity.   They often  deal  with                                                                
such  issues  in  exclusively  tacit/implicit  ways  which      
entail   subtle  but  un-provable  coercion,    deception, 
violence  and  alienation.     Their  forms  of  coercion,           
deception,  violence and alienation cannot be  "corrected" 
and/or "controlled" through formal judicial procedures; or              
through   focusing   upon  commandments,    prescriptions,                                
proscriptions, or injunctions.                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                               
     People  who  are preoccupied with issues  of  control                                                           
rarely acknowledge that the attitudes, thoughts, feelings,                                                                     
beliefs,    communications,     friendships,   intimacies,             
decisions, and actions which they seek to control ---  are                                                           
of   such  characters  as  to  be  beyond  the  reach   of                                                                     
intentional forms of control.    It is dishonest to try to                                                           
control them in any intentional way.    Efforts to control      
them  are   alienative  and  counter-productive.     Human                                        
history  is  full  of examples  of the  futility  of  such                                                                     
efforts.     Yet such people persist in trying to  control                                                           
what  cannot  be  controlled ---  with  repeatedly  tragic                                                           
consequences.    Such  people  do  not  learn  from  their                                                                    
mistakes  because  they  are playing  collusive  games  of                          
mutual   self   deception.     They believe  that  playing 
such dishonest games are essential to maintaining personal                  
and communal integrity.   They are tragically confused!                                                                
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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