This is http://www.essayz.com/b0104131.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %LIBERATION DOMINATION KINDS OPPRESSION PRISON+010413 %DOMINATION SYSTEM IMPRISONMENT GOOD EVIL SERVANTS+010413 %VICTIM SUBMISSION OBEDIENT COMPLIANT LOYAL+010413 %SUBJECT COFORMISTS PASSIVE TIMID ACCEPT CHOSEN+010413 %AUTHORITY GOD IDOLATRY SACRIFICE ESSENTIAL+010413 %FOUNDATIONS FALL SINS IMMORALITY ETHICS+010413 %RULES PRESCRIPTION LAW SEX 010413 We are imprisoned by domination in many ways; so we need to be liberated from domination in many ways: 1. We may be imprisoned by domineering people who are in the service of "The Domination System" which they worship as their Grand Idol which calls them to be GOOD SERVANTS of "The Domination System." 2. We may be imprisoned in the role of victim; compulsively playing the role of victim as if we were called by God to be GOOD VICTIMS; submissive, obedient, compliant, loyal, thoughtless, conformists, passive, timid, accepting chosen GOOD AUTHORITIES. We may accept domination as ordained by God, and rejoice in our imprisonment and in our lack of power and responsibility. 3. We may think that domination is good for us because domination liberates us from: having to think, taking risks, accepting responsibilities, being responsive, being accountable, working diligently, making mistakes, being embarrassed, and. being wrong. 4. We may be imprisoned by a compulsive sense that we MUST be: in charge, in control, in power, in authority; perfect, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, etc. 5. We may be imprisoned by past traditions, unable to imagine that life could be any different; accepting what is, as what is inevitable --- ordained by God. 6. We may be victims of: poor-health, poverty, disease, illness, injuries, confusion, ignorance, weakness, sickness, prejudices, biases --- and so be vulnerable to domineering people who take advantage of us. Of course "The Domination System" forbids: liberation, health, healing, thinking, clarity, dialogue, listening, forgiveness, reconciliation, peace-making, love, intimacy, friendships, honesty, integration, integrity, coherence --- for they are all terrifying threats to the dishonest survival of "The Domination System". Anyone who presumes to promote any of them must be seduced into being servants of "The Domination System", or else be eliminated. When we are comfortably trapped it is hard to imagine getting out of the trap as something that anybody would desire. Our prison is so comfortable! The outside world is so threatening! (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================