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    %FALLING ORIGINAL SINS SELF JUSTIFICATION DEVIL+011005
   %GOOD GODS DOMINATION SYSTEM ACCEPT REJECT OTHER+011005
  %SUPERIOR INFERIOR SALVATION DAMNATION REDEMPTION+011005
  %POWER CONCENTRATION CORRUPTION PRIDE UNITY RIGHT 011005
                                                          
     If we are constantly confronted with calls           
       to justify ourselves as persons,                   
         by domineering people who take it for granted    
           that we must justify ourselves                 
             to be accepted by them;                      
                                                          
     Then we may become like them ---                     
       and take it for granted that other people          
         must justify themselves to us, their superiors.  
                                                          
     We make take it for granted that superior            
       and/or powerful people                             
         are likely to, and have the right to ---         
           demand that we justify ourselves to them;      
             for example to religious leaders and God.    
                                                          
     We may become preoccupied with questions of          
       superiority and self-justification,                
         grounds for self-pride and self-esteem,          
           how to endear ourselves to God and Angels,     
             how to be saved and go to Heaven, and        
               how to save dear ones into Heaven.         
                                                          
     If we fall into the above patterns of traditional:   
       assumptions, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors;     
         we find ourselves going around and around        
           in tragically contentious relationships        
             full of misunderstandings, ignorance,        
               prejudice, arrogance, coercion and         
                 proud self-righteousness.                
                                                          
     If we fall into the above patterns ---               
       we fall into hells of our own making ---           
         and cannot see how to get out of our own hells.  
           We cannot save ourselves or others --- who     
             are with us in our own hellish patterns of   
               alienative: assumptions, attitudes,        
                 arrogance, beliefs and behaviors.        
                   We fear those who can truly save us,   
                     by sharing with us gifts of the      
                       freedom to be safely vulnerable    
                         and acceptable --- without our   
                           successfully justifying        
                             ourselves better than        
                               themselves others          
                                 have justified.          
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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