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 %BEWARE LIMITED NUMBER CRITERIA DECIDE VISIONS SIN+010414
 %DREAMS HOPES ASPIRATIONS THOUGHTS INTENTION DEVIL+010414
 %DECISIONS ACTIONS RESPECT HONOR TRUST SUPPORT GOD+010414
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     Be aware-of and beware when people insist on the  use
of   only  a VERY LIMITED NUMBER OF CRITERIA  in  deciding
whether or not human: visions, dreams, hopes, aspirations,
thoughts,    intentions,   decisions and actions --- merit
our respect, honor, trust and support.                    
                                                          
     Domineering  people  who are in the service of   "The
Domination System"   attempt  to  exercise full control by
focusing our attention upon only a VERY LIMITED NUMBER  OF
CRITERIA.    They try to push out of our consciousness all
COMPLEMENTARY CRITERIA which would (if considered)    cast
revealing   light  upon  how they  are threatening  and/or
undermining both  our  personal and communal  integritites
which do merit our respect,  honor, trust and support.  It
is dangerous to let others  narrow the range of the  focus
of our attention;   so that we become as exclusive as they
are.   Personal and communal integrity are impossible when
exclusive  considerations and people rule,   dominate  and
control our lives.                                        
                                                          
     Empowering   one   set   of   bullies,     dictators,
terrorists,    addicts,  colluders,  excluders ---  is  no
better than empowering any opposing set.  All such sets of
mutually  exclusive  rulers  promote  both   personal  and
communal disintegration.    Their  claims  that  they  are
inherently  "better"    than another set  of  people  that
promote mutually exclusive narrow criteria ---  are claims
which are not worthy of any respect, honor or support.    
                                                          
     Mutually exclusive criteria  and  mutually  exclusive
leaders  engender  each  other  ---   and  undermine  both
personal  and   communal   integrity   through   behaviors
characterized by:                                         
                                                          
     coercion, dishonesty, deception, attacks, violence,  
                                                          
     exclusivity, arrogance, self-righteousness,          
                                                          
     collusions, addictions, codependence, isolation,     
                                                          
     excommunication, deafness, blindness, dis-ease,      
                                                          
     contentiousness, disagreements, arguments, etc.      
                                                          
                                                          
     We need to transcend their NARROW/EXCLUSIVE:         
                                                          
criteria, assumptions, cosmologies, mythologies,          
                                                          
attitudes, beliefs, assertions, demands, commandments,    
                                                          
prescriptions, proscriptions, scriptural-interpretations, 
                                                          
relationships, visions, hopes and aspirations.            
                                                          
                                                          
     It is  not  easy to  overcome/transcend  their  ways 
without  becoming like them.    Be aware-of and beware-of 
why this is so.                                           
                                                          
     Narrowly   focused  extremists of all kinds  seek  to
define  their particular form of extremism as the  essence
of "goodness",  "righteousness", "Godliness" ---  and seek
to define  any DEPARTURE FROM THEIR FORM OF EXTREMISM   as
the essence of "evil",  "disobedience", "sin".    They all
tend to agree that conformity is good,  and non-conformity
is  bad. They  disagree about the  standards  for "proper"
conformity.                                               
                                                          
     Integrative people of integrity recognize and reveal 
     that narrowly focused extremists of all kinds ---    
                                                          
     exclude from consideration the recognition that      
     goodness, righteousness, and Godliness have to do    
     with the qualities of HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS,           
                                                          
     not with the DEGREES OF CONFORMITY of individual     
     humans to some set of standards for individual human 
                                                          
     behaviors, thoughts, dreams, visions, perceptions,   
     and ways of understanding each other person          
                                                          
     who is inherently different --- in some              
     complementary way.                                   
                                                          
     Extremists   are not content to let natural  patterns
of  cause  and effect pass judgement upon how  worthy   of
respect,     honor,    trust  and  support  ---    various
relationships are.  Extremists  feel it is  necessary   to
supplement  or supplant God's natural  patterns  of  cause
and  effect  ---  with  human demands, commandments,  laws
and  punishments ---   and they are  ready,    willing and
able  to  sacrifice  personal  and communal  integrity  in
inflicting  human  punishments upon those people who  fail
to conform "properly".                                    
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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