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  %FAIL TENACITY DEDICATION COMMITMENT LOYALTY EVIL+990112                                       
 %DETERMINATION PLAN PROGRAM SYSTEM STRATEGY METHOD+990112                                    
 %ALTERNATIVE DIFFERENT CHANGE DIET APPROACH GROWTH 990112                                     
                                                                                                                               
     Not all forms of commitments,  dedication and loyalty                                                                     
merit our respect and support.                                      
                                                                                                                               
     When any program,  plan, approach, system,  or method               
fails  time  and time again to yield the  desired/intended          
sweat fruits ---  it is time to consider the  alternatives                                                                     
and to ask why the outcomes are bitter fruits.  Many times               
repeated  bitter harvests are bringing us a message  which                                                                     
needs to be heeded.  Consider:                 
                                                                                                                               
     1.  The alcoholic or drug addict who repeatedly seeks                                                
to  solve/resolve  the  problems and dilemmas of  life  by                                                                     
returning to the favored "solution" which has never really                                                                     
worked.                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                               
     2.  The  community  which  seeks to solve  the  crime                                                                
problem  by each year putting more criminals in  jail  and                                                                     
building   more  jails  to  accommodate   the   increasing                                                                     
percentage of the total population which "needs"  to be in        
jail --- without every trying to understand and be in open                                                    
and honest dialogue with the criminals who are in jail.                                                                  
                                                                                                                               
     3.  The  community which seeks to solve the "problem"                                                                
of  prostitution without ever seeking to speak openly  and                                                                     
honestly  about  how  best  to help young people  to  grow                                               
steadily and gradually into adults who joyfully engaged in  
healthy sexual relationships.
                                                                                                                               
     4.  The  religious community which seeks to solve the                                                                
"problem"  if internal inconsistencies between portions of                      
their scriptures and between their scriptures and reliably                                                                     
substantiated secular truths --- by excommunicating people                                                                
who point out the inconsistencies.                                                                                             
                                                                                                                               
     5.    Religious  communities which seek to deal  with                                                                
evil by excommunicating  evil members of their communities                                       
--- because they define  evil  as  having  to do with non-                          
conformity---rather   than   with   alienation    as    in            
excommunication.                                                                
                                                                                                                               
     6.  Scientists   who   seek   to  minimize   bias  by                              
excommunicating themselves from people who are willing  to    
consider  seriously---reflexive  insights which cannot  be     
evaluated without bias when detected proven by  detachment                                                                     
from the process under analysis.              
                                                                                                                               
     7.  Business people who pretend that business  growth                                                                    
will always be good for business inside our finite  space-      
ship   Earth  which  will  ultimately  be   destroyed   by                                                                     
unremitting   business   growth   and  the  generation  of                                                                     
unremitting increases  in the GROSS  national  product  of                                                                     
GARBAGE.                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                               
     8.  Politicians who make a virtue of being unbalanced                                                             
in  their  fanatical dedication to some single issue which                                                                     
alienates    them   from   major   portions    of    their                                        
constituencies.                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                               
     If the crop of fruits year after year are bitter,  it                                                                     
may be wise to consider whether the plants and trees which                                                                     
are being nurtured need to be changed.                 
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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