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%GROUNDS TRANSCEND COMPULSIVE FEARFUL REJECTIONS+990425
%SELF OTHERS ALIENATION EXCOMMUNICATION BANISHMENT 990425
We are unlikely to recognize, name and describe
appropriate grounds for transcending compulsive/fearful
rejections, alienations, excommunications and banishments
--- so long as we do not recognize the evil consequences
of personal and communal disintegrations which flow from
what we need to transcend.
So long as we conceive evil things and relationships
in terms of people's failures to conform to our
expectations of them --- so long are we likely to be the
victims of such evil things and relationships which we
ourselves have conceived and feared.
When we conceive, recognize, name, and describe evil
relationships in terms of our failures to participate
openly and honestly within intimate relationships wherein
we enjoy security as the freedom to be safely vulnerable
--- then we may be freed from those evil things and
relationships which we ourselves have conceived and
feared.
Our compulsive/fearful rejections and alienations
are initiated by ourselves and others --- and make
victims of ourselves and others. It is impossible to
cleanly separate out initiators and/or victims; for both
of them are always inter-dependent in confusing ways
which make classifying people into mutually exclusive
roles a futile exercise. We cannot assign fault, blame,
guilt or shame in helpful ways. We cannot know in
helpful ways who is good and who is evil; for the
knowledge of who is good and who is evil --- is always
pretentious knowledge; which is alienative in that
the self-acknowledged "good" people are prone to
recognized/identify "evil" people among unfamiliar
"others" rather than among "loyal friends" and
"respectable leaders".
So long as we do not honestly and openly seek to
recognize, name and describe reliable grounds for
transcending our compulsive/fearful rejections and
alienations of others --- so long we will continue to
victimize each other with our unresolved conflicts and
contentious approaches to each other.
We may be paralyzed by fears of consequences which
we regard as "objective" fears --- when they are in
fact consequences which are chosen by people who are ill,
dis-eased, sick, alienated, etc. If we do not
properly recognize the nature of what engenders the
"consequences" we are unlikely to respond wisely to our
fears. If we treat the consequences of sick humans'
behaviors --- as if they were objective consequences
which flow from the nature of objects' manners of
interactions --- we can not deal with the consequences
wisely. We need to respond to sick humans as sick
humans, and to threatening objective situations as such.
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