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%HIGHER STANDARDS LEVELS PURITY ARROGANCE RIGHTEOUS+001116
%DOMINATION SYSTEM DEFENSE CONTROL POWER CORRUPTION+001116
 %ATTITUDES ASSUMPTIONS PERCEPTIONS DESIRES ENFORCE+001116
%EXCLUSIVE GOVERN REPRESENTATION FREEDOM SPEECH SIN 001116
                                                          
     Domineering   people  often  seek  to  defend   their
"Domination Systems" by:                                  
                                                          
     1.  Calling for "higher"  standards --- by which they
mean  standards  which  are  more  detailed,   cover  more
situations,  are harder to meet, entail more controls over
people  and  relationships,  and demand higher  levels  of
"purity" in attitudes, assumptions, thoughts, perceptions,
desires, decisions, and behaviors.                        
                                                          
     2.  Claiming  that  people who  affirm  complementary
standards ---  have no standards; and so merit no respect,
honor or trust.                                           
                                                          
     3.  Calling  for more strict enforcement of what they
regard  as existing standards ---  which they interpret in
terms  of  their  own exclusive  attitudes,   assumptions,
thoughts, perceptions, desires, decision and life styles. 
                                                          
     4.  Calling  for  higher  levels  of  exclusivity  in
qualification  standards for election to governing  bodies
of the institutions, political parties, churches and other
organizations --- which they seek to dominate because they
believe that they have a right and/or duty to do so.      
                                                          
     Domineering people fail to recognize and  acknowledge
that other  people affirm, and in coherent  ways  live by,
standards which transcend  domineering thoughts and ways. 
                                                          
     These  transcendent  standards  deal  with  reflexive
realities  which  go  beyond objective  appearances;   for
example:                                                  
                                                          
     1.  Qualities of human relationships ---  rather than
with  ways  in  which individual humans  must  conform  to
prescribed  and proscribed patterns of  thought,   belief,
reasoning, desires, perceptions, fears, hopes, aspirations
and public behavior.                                      
                                                          
     2.  Matters  of  the  heart  ---   rather  than  with
matters of public appearances.                            
                                                          
     3.  Facilitation and promoting --- honesty, dialogue,
listening,   cooperation,   reconciliation,   peacemaking,
intimacy,  health,  healing, sharing, mutuality,  balance,
personal integrity, and communal integrity.               
                                                          
     4.  Recognizing,  naming, describing,  understanding,
talking-about,   transcending and subverting:  addictions,
codependent   relationships,    collusions,   dominations,
alienations,  estrangements, misunderstandings, ignorance,
prejudices, coercions, violence, wars, and disintegration.
                                                          
     Domineering people refuse to acknowledge the merit of
such  reflexive standards ---  because honoring them would
lead to the walls of their "Domination System" fortress to
come  tumbling down  when lovers would com and play  their
harps as they go around/about the "Domination System" both
visibly  and invisibly.   It is a terrifying thought  that
such  a thing might come to pass!   Pray that it does  and
act as if it is coming to pass.                           
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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