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%ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS ALANON CODEPEND COLLUSION SIN+000911
   %DOMINATION SYSTEM TECHNOCRAT SEXUAL ABUSE LOGIC+000911
   %FUNDAMENTAL TRUTHS ALIENATION SUBVERT TRANSCEND 000911
                                                          
     Many  respected,  honored,  and  powerful people have
attitudes,  thoughts, and beliefs which serve to undermine
both  personal and communal integrity.   We need to  be  a
aware  of  such people  and understand the "logic/reasons"
for their strange attitudes,  thoughts  and beliefs.   The
"logic/reasons" have been revealed,   exposed and analyzed
within the frameworks of:                                 
                                                          
     1.  Alcoholics Anonymous' Meetings and related books 
         on diverse forms of Addiction and Codependency.  
                                                          
     2.  Alanon Meetings and books on Codependency.       
                                                          
     3.  R. D. Laing's concept of Collusive Games of      
         Mutual  Self  Deception  in his  book  "Self  and
         Other".                                          
                                                          
     4.  Walter Wink's concept of "The Domination System" 
         in his book "The Powers that Be".                
                                                          
     5.  Feminists' clarifications of sexual abuse.       
                                                          
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     The  "logic/reasons"  seem to "make-sense"   to  some
people because:                                           
                                                          
     1.    "The Domination System"   cannot  succeed  when
most  people  in  a community are involved  in  open   and
honest  relationships characterized by authentic intimacy,
balance, gentleness, mutual respect, and humility.        
                                                          
     2.  People  who think in dichotomous either/or  terms
usually   over-simplify  truly   complex   situations  and
relationships   ---   in  ways  which  do  not  accurately
represent what is really true.                            
                                                          
     3.  Subtle forms of deception, misrepresentation, and
concealment   are   used   to   conceal   and/or   repress
complementary:   facts,   ideals,   values,    principles,
perceptions and kinds of people.                          
                                                          
     4.  Through  false forms of "faith"  people hope  for
and expect  to  see fulfilled their own fantastic visions,
dreams   and   desires    which    would    entail     the
transcendence    of environmental,    resource  and  human
limitations  ---   which   are  firm  limits  on  what  is
possible within the  realms   of  human  relationships and
physical circumstances.                                   
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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