This is http://www.essayz.com/b0105201.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.} ========================================================== %SAFELY VULNERABLE SECURE SANCTUARY WORSHIP HOUSE+010520 %DOMINATION SYSTEM SUPPORTERS COMMUNAL INTEGRATION+010520 %EXPOSE DISHONEST COLLUSIONS ADDICTIONS SEXUALITY+010520 %INTIMATE FRIENDSHIPS LOYALTY COMMITMENTS DEVILS 010520 When we are involved in any kind of support of "The Domination System" of our community --- our levels of insecurity and vulnerability depend upon how easily our enemies/critics can expose our: secrets, pretenses, lies, dishonesties, arrogance, self-righteousness, addictions, collusions, concentrations of power and corruption. - - - - - - - - - - In these regards we need to take note that: 1. The more occasions of them, 2. The more deliberate and overt they are, 3. The more tragic are the consequences of them, 4. The more people who know about many of them, 5. The more cover-ups we use to hide many of them, 6. The more we claim to be certain/powerful/good, 7. The more we try to be Lords-in-Control of all, 8. The more victims there are of our violations, 9. The more righteous/perfect we pretend to be, 10. The more invulnerable we pretend to be - - - The more dangerous and insecure we are in TRUTH. - - - - - - - - - - The more we pretend to be without sin, flaw, fault; the more we are tragically: estranged, alienated, excommunicated, and lost. - - - - - - - - - - The more we pretend to be "better" than others; the less we can cooperate with others. - - - - - - - - - - The worse that we pretend that others are; the less we can appreciate them as lovers. - - - - - - - - - - The more we pretend we that we cannot enjoy, the less that we can enjoy. Few of us are wise. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================