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 %DOING RIGHTLY RIGHTEOUSNESS SUPERIOR SUCCESS GOOD+000407
 %ACHIEVE SALVATION SAVING OTHERS SELF ARROGANT GOD+000407
 %DOMINATION SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY JUDGMENTAL CONFUSION+000407
 %IGNORANCE CONFUSION MORALITY ETHICAL BEHAVIOR SIN 000407
                                                          
     1.  It  is difficult for us to do rightly and  be  in
right relationships  if we ARE CONFUSED and IGNORANT about
what  is   right   and what relationships  are  right  ---
because:                                                  
                                                          
     a.  It is difficult to navigate the troubled         
     waters of life --- because we cannot see             
     clearly the right way to go. We make mistakes.       
                                                          
     b.  It is difficult to be with each other            
     rightly because we confuse doing right --- with      
     being in right relationships with each other         
     through cooperative activities with "different"      
     people.   We trouble each other.                     
                                                          
     2.  If  we  ARE NOT CONFUSED and  ARE  WELL  INFORMED
about  what  is  right and how we and others should  be in
right relationships --- then:                             
                                                          
     a.  It  is  difficult  for  us  to  avoid self-      
     commendations and self-condemnations ---             
     because we can then see so clearly how well we       
     are doing and being within  our  relationships.      
     Pride and low self esteem plague us.                 
                                                          
     b.  It is difficult for us to avoid arrogance        
     in judging, condemning others, and alienating        
     ourselves from others --- because we then see        
     so clearly how poorly they are doing and being       
     in relationships with us. We suffer with each        
     other within relationships which are dominated       
     by legalisms, judgmentalism, condemnations,          
     excommunications and mutually alienative             
     patterns of attitudes, thoughts and behaviors.       
                                                          
     If we avoid the above traps, then it is hard to avoid
being proud of our success in avoiding the above traps. It
is not easy to be sophisticated and better than others ---
without   falling   into  sophisticated  traps  with   our
sophisticated friends who help us to be better than others
are --- in their ignorance and confusion with us.         
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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