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%UNHEALTHY DISINTEGRATIVE DYSFUNCTIONAL KINDS FEARS 991111
Various kinds of fears are healthy and/or unhealthy
in varying degrees. Examples are given below of fears
which are clearly healthy, and of fears which are clearly
unhealthy; e.g.,
Healthy Fears of:
1. Pain on hitting your thumb-nail with a hammer.
2. Crashing by driving a car when sleepy.
3. Crashing by driving a car when drunk.
4. A tornado headed right towards you.
5. An attacking lion which is enraged.
6. An electric shock if a "hot" wire is touched.
7. Contracting venereal disease through casual sex.
8. Getting pregnant through casual sex.
9. Getting involved with an addictive sex partner.
10. Manipulative/addictive religious leadership.
Unhealthy Fears of:
1. Excommunication due to creative non-conformity.
2. Rejection for honest/authentic communications.
3. Banishment for being authentically yourself.
4. Condemnation for exposing a collusive game.
5. Punishment without due process being granted.
6. Taboo thoughts, desires, dreams or visions.
7. Unconventional revelations and perceptions.
8. Growth, change, creativity, liberation, etc.
9. Uncertainty, doubts, tolerance, love or grace.
10. Liberation, freedom, reconciliation, intimacy.
The examples of healthy fears listed above pertain to
fears of consequences which follow naturally from
imprudent decisions --- to a large degree in ways which do
not depend upon people's decisions to "punish" the
imprudent decisions. Natural consequences are very
likely to demonstrate that the decisions were imprudent.
Even when there is positive support from other people for
the imprudent decisions --- the outcomes of the affirmed
decisions are unlikely to be positive.
The examples of unhealthy fears listed above pertain
to fears of consequences which follow due to dysfunctional
human decisions to "punish" the "imprudent" decisions.
That which is feared would not follow in the absence of
dysfunctional human decisions to "punish" the "imprudent"
decisions and actions. The "punishment" is not natural in
origin; it is both human and inhumane in origin. Such
"punishment" does not merit our respect, tolerance,
affirmations, or support --- for the "punishment" in most
cases entails one or more of the following:
1. Manipulations/coercions/controls which depend
upon alienative combinations of --- shaming, guilting,
condemnations, imprisonments, rejections, banishments,
exclusions and/or violence.
2. Impositions of distinctions between "good" people
and "evil" people; "saved" and "dammed" people.
3. The empowerment of people who are arrogant and/or
self-righteous.
4. Preoccupations with issues of control and the
use/abuse of technologies through which to appear to be in
control.
5. The playing of collusive games of mutual self
deception on the part of the dominant and/or the
victimized people --- sometimes in ways which are
perversely coordinated in regards to assumptions,
attitudes, beliefs, and convictions.
6. The pretense that mortals can control many
realities which are beyond control by mortals.
7. The pretense that mortals can reliably know God's
will, intentions, motivations, thoughts, concerns, ways,
and means.
8. The assumption that articulations of important
truths are eternal and unchanging --- and that the most
important truths were articulated most reliably in the
distant past --- at times and places about which we have
relatively little objective evidence.
9. The belief that ancient people were seeking to
achieve the same purposes in their articulations as we are
seeking to achieve in our articulations today --- while
we are within quite different: cultural,
scientific, political, religious, and technological
contexts.
10. That dominant leaders are more worthy of trust
and respect than are leaders who are humble, gentle, open,
honest and meek.
(c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
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