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            %VIRTUOUS BIAS UNBALANCE DECEPTION PURE+990125 
      %GOODNESS EXTREMISM TERRORISM WAR THEFT+990125      
                         %ROBBERY MURDER EVIL 990125      
                                                                                                                               
     Parents,  families,  teachers,  religious leaders and                                                                     
professors  will  do well and be well as they work  openly                                                                     
and  honestly  in  helping children and  young  adults  to                                                                  
recognize  when  people are putting masks of  virtue  upon                                                                    
their  own particular "good"  forms of  bias,   extremism,                   
deception, purity, and lack of balance. 
                                                                                                                               
     We  will  do well and be well as we help  each  other                                                               
become  aware  of "virtuous"  forms of  bias,   extremism,                                                                     
deception, purity and lack of balance; e.g., when: 
                                                                                                                               
     1.   Judgementalism overwhelms gentleness,  meekness,                                                                     
humility, and peacemaking.                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                               
     2.  "Generosity"    overwhelms   respect  for   other                                      
people's wealth, possession, privacy, and right to be true       
to self and others.                                                      
                                                                                                                               
     3.  Concerns for "purity"  on the part of others  and                               
self overwhelms respect for humility,  honesty,  openness,                                      
responsiveness, candor,  and being in touch with others on                                  
the part of self and friends.                                                      
                                                                                                                               
     4.  Preoccupations  with law,  order,  and issues  of                                                                     
control overwhelm respect for humility, honesty, openness,                                      
responsiveness,  candor and being in touch with our  human                                  
limitations, biases,  foibles, prejudices, confusions, and                                                                     
tendencies towards arrogance.                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                               
     5.  Demonstrating  our  skills in  spotting mistakes,                                                            
blunders  and failures in others ---  but neglecting to be                                                    
open and honest about our own mistakes, blunders, failures                   
and disintegrative motivations.                                                                   
                                                                                                                               
     6.  Focusing upon the perfection of systems of  laws,                                    
ethics, and morality --- while refusing to acknowledge the                                                                     
alienative consequences of how  we are taking advantage of                                        
the existing patterns of laws, ethics, and morality.                                                                           
                                                                                                                               
     7.  Pretending that we are serving others by  calling                                                               
for a return to simplicity,  trust, and respect for chosen                                      
leaders ---   while we and those whom we support  are  are                                                                     
taking  advantage of complexity as a means for pulling the                                                                     
wool over  the eyes of simple people who  are  not  smart,                                                                    
perceptive  or intelligent enough to see how we are taking        
advantage of their simplicity and vulnerability.                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
     8.  Engaging  in  collusive  games  of  mutual   self                            
deception in order to protect our sense of sincerity as we 
play  out  our  preoccupations with issues of  control  in                                                           
efforts   to   gain   and  take  advantage   of  increased                                                                     
concentrations of powers which corrupt  us,   disintegrate                               
us, and disintegrate our communities.                                                            
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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