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%RIGHTEOUS EVIL RELATIONSHIPS INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE SIN+000829
%CONDEMNATIONS JUDGMENTALISM LEGALISM EXCOMMUNICATE+000829
  %DOMINATION SYSTEM DOMINEERING ADDICTS COLLUSIONS 000829
                                                          
     All  too often domineering people are confused  about
what righteousness is about.   They think righteousness is
about individual  people,  rather than about relationships
which entail two and more people.   For domineering people
it is convenient  to  think  of righteousness in terms  of
individual people,  because then righteousness can be used
as   a tool with  which  to  dominate  vulnerable  people;
e.g.,   people who are:  weak,  sick,   thirsty,   hungry,
homeless, naked, powerless, confused, doubtful, dis-eased,
ill-at-ease, women, and children.                         
                                                          
     True  righteousness  is  about  people  who  are   in
RIGHT    "RELATIONSHIPS-of-integration-and-reconciliation"
which  are  characterized  by:     balance,     mutuality,
generosity,      kindness,      gentleness,      patience,
forbearance,  support, respect,   tolerance,  forgiveness,
humility, graciousness, hope, trust, intimacy and love.   
                                                          
     Evil is about WRONG "RELATIONSHIPS-of-disintegration-
and-alienation"  characterized by:  imbalance, domination,
extremism, coercion, violence, abuse, ownership, meanness,
viciousness,     spitefulness,    anger,     vengefulness,
addictions, dishonesty, secrecy, collusions, codependence,
terrorism, war, etc.                                      
                                                          
     We   will   continue  to  be   dominated   by   WRONG
RELATIONSHIPS so long as we fail to agree that  domination
and domineering people do not merit our respect, honor and
support  by virtue of any level of success that they  have
at  being more dominant and domineering than  others  are.
Individuals  cannot  become righteous  by  being  dominant
and/or  domineering.    Neither can  relationships  become
righteous through demonstrations of dominance.  Domination
is a lose/lose game in which no one truly wins anything.  
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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