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%COHERENT INTEGRATIVE RELIGIOUS IDEALS IDEAS LEGAL+991128
%COMMANDMENTS LAWS CONFESSIONS SCRIPTURES MORALITY+991128
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%GOOD DEVIL DOMINATION COERCION VIOLENCE CONTROLS 991128
Young people are often quite perceptive and detect
the lack of integrity/coherence in the teachings and ways
of their elders. This means that elders who are faithful
participants in collusive games of mutual self deception
need to be especially careful around perceptive young
people; to insure that the children are properly
indoctrinated in the ways and logic of their collusive
games of mutual self deception. Special attention needs
to be given to insure that there is at least an
appearance of coherence and integrity in the teachings
and ways of the community; else the dishonest but
essential games will come to an end.
1. Authoritarian teachings and commandments need to
be put into a class of their own which require no
justification in terms of practical considerations. The
"grounds" for respecting, honoring, and supporting those
"grounds" must be matters of ultimate concern, beyond
question, beyond critical analysis, and not tied to
current experiences and perceptions. The interpretation
of such teachings and commandments must be placed in the
hands of reliable authorities who will not depart from the
teachings of the faithful collusions of the community.
2. Members of the community need to be conditioned
to feel that their own experiences, perceptions, and
patterns of thought are not reliable; e.g., are prone to
be misguided by the devil and his agents, or are
corrupted through human weakness and/or original sin.
The proper authorities should be held up for respect,
honor, trust and support.
3. Members of the community who do not conform
properly to the above considerations must be labeled as
unreliable --- and kept away from positions of influence,
power, authority, and leadership. Ostensibly good
"reasons" must be presented for labeling creative non-
conformists as unreliable. Such "reasons" may be well
grounded in provincial confusions, ignorance, prejudice,
and/or vested interests.
4. It is helpful to appeal to people's needs and
desires for simplicity. Most people dislike having to
deal with more than one or two considerations. They
appreciate teachings and commandments which focus upon
only one consideration, or at most two closely related
considerations. They are suspicious of teachings and
suggestions which call upon them to think carefully
about a multitude of inter-related perceptions of
how people, personal relationships, living things,
and environmental factors ---are intricately interwoven
in the web of life within Spaceship Earth as it
travels through the cosmos.
5. It is easiest to lead people in terms of
teachings and commandments which focus upon how and why
members of the local community are "better than",
"superior to", and/or "more blessed" --- than are the
members which are outside the local community --- by
choice or by exclusion. "Enemies" help the local
community maintain patterns of loyalty, coherence,
integrity, and faithfulness to the sacred collusive games
of mutual self deception.
When leaders fail to thoughtlessly attend to these
principles of effective leadership --- the most creative
young people are likely to fall away from the faith ---
and learn to worship in non-traditional ways which are
not faithful to the traditional collusive games of
mutual self deception. Beware of non-conformists who
are young, creative, thoughtful, imaginative,
undisciplined, and/or friendly with strange people who
are outside of the local faithful community.
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