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   %RATIONALIZE DOMINEERING DOMINATION SYSTEM COSTS+001013
                           %ALIENATION ESTRANGEMENT 001013
                                                          
     Domineering   people's   ways  of   supporting   "The
Domination  System"   engender  high  costs  in  terms  of
alienation, estrangement, confusion, ignorance, prejudice,
etc.    How  and/or  why are such  ways  rationalized  and
justified?                                                
                                                          
     1.  According  to  some  people's  conception  of the
doctrine  of  original  sin most people  are so  imperfect
that for law and order to  survive sinners must be coerced
into proper thoughts,    attitudes, and  behaviors.     It
is  the  proper   role   of  domineering  people   to   be
coercive so as to maintain law  and  order.  Those who are
rejected and alienated   ---   are  themselves responsible
for  their  being cast out  into  the  outer darkness.    
                                                          
     2.  Those  people  who  have worked the  hardest  and
accumulated the most knowledge,  wealth and power are  the
most  fit  to  survive.   They have earned  the  right  to
protect  all the good things which they have  created  for
posterity.  Lethargy, indolence, and confusion must not be
encouraged with un-earned rewards.                        
                                                          
     3.  The truths which are found throughout  scriptures
are eternal and coherently true in absolute ways.   People
who discern signs of a history of evolving  understandings
of  the nature of God ---  are agents of the Devil.   Such
people  and the Devil whom they follow will go to hell and
burn eternally in Hell!                                   
                                                          
     4.  Those who serve most sacrificially have the right
to  enjoy  the collected wealth of  the  religious  orders
which  they  serve.    Their vows of  poverty  should  not
totally  separate them from the nicer things in life which
their institutions have collected together.               
                                                          
     5.  By  defining  Love and acts of mercy in terms  of
unilateral  actions  which are needed to maintain law  and
order  ---   rather  than in  terms  of  facilitating  and
promoting open  and honest:  dialogue,  understanding, and
cooperation within healthy relationships.                 
                                                          
     6.  By defining righteousness in terms of  conformity
on the part of individuals --- rather than in terms of the
quality of inter-personal relationships and cooperation.  
                                                          
     7.  By   focusing  upon  proper  unilateral   rescue,
salvation,  correction,  purification,  and sanctification
---   rather  than upon the foundations for  personal  and
communal integration and integrity.                       
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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