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%FEARS MOTIVATION GUIDE LEAD DISINTEGRATION ADDICT+990219
%ECHO COLLUSIVE COERCIVE VIOLENT BEHAVIOR FAILURES+990219
%FEEDBACK LOOP EXPONENTIAL GROWTH DECAY FAULT GUILT+990219
%OBJECTIVE REFLEXIVE DYSFUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP SIN+990219
%EVIL ALIENATION MISUNDERSTANDING COLLUSION HONESTY 990219
Many people's dysfunctional behaviors are motivated
and guided by fears which engender personal and communal
disintegration. The two kinds of disintegration are
inextricably inter-active and inter-related.
Some fears are functional because they pertain to
dealing prudently with objective realities which are real
threats to personal and communal integrity. It is prudent
to fear real and anticipated fires, floods, earthquakes,
mud-slides, crashes, etc. Prudent fears lead people to
take appropriate precautions and evasive maneuvers to
avoid disintegrations due to that which is prudently
feared.
It is not always easy to distinguish between
objective realities which are prudently feared because
of the disintegrative threats which they pose --- and
reflexive realities which are engendered by imprudent
and/or reflexive fears. Fears can grow in the absence
of threatening objective realities and in the absence of
real personal threats. Fears often grow in the
absence of: love, affection, mutual understanding,
honesty; and in the absence of security enjoyed as the
freedom to be safely vulnerable. Fearful people are
defensive and engender relationships of: alienation,
coercion, misunderstanding, deception, coercion, violence,
and excommunication. Such relationships threaten both
personal and communal integrity. It is prudent to fear
both personal and communal disintegration --- and to
take appropriate precautions and engage in evasive
maneuvers to avoid both personal and communal
disintegration. Thus it is prudent to fear patterns
of: assumptions, beliefs, convictions, thought and
behavior which lead people into relationships which
threaten both personal and communal disintegrations. The
dilemma is to find and invent integrative ways to
respond prudently to such treats.
Often people's responses to threats are dysfunctional
responses --- because they echo the threats which they
fear. It is imprudent to respond in-kind to threats;
i.e., it is imprudent to behave in the same manner as do
those people who have occasioned distressing threats and
fears. Such imprudent responses in-kind --- occasion
the growth of threats and fears; rather than the dying
away of threats and fears.
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