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%BEING WELL ALIENATED GOOD INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE SINNER+020213
  %FOCUS FACILITATE PROMOTE RIGHT RELATIONSHIPS ALL+020213
 %DISEASE CONCILIATE SICKNESS DISINTEGRATE ARROGANT+020213
%ISOLATED ALIENATED SELFRIGHTEOUS CONFUSED TOGETHER+020213
%PLAYING COLLUSIVE GAMES MUTUAL SELF DECEPTION EVIL+020213
 %EXCLUSIVE SUPERIORITY REJECTION EXCOMMUNICATE GOD 020213
                                                          
     We will be well and do well                          
       when we focus upon facilitating and promoting      
         RIGHT RELATIONSHIPS all around ---               
           rather than focus upon our own righteousness;  
             or upon others' lack of righteousness ---    
               as isolated individuals as such.           
                                                          
     We cannot successfully make/force/coerce others      
       into RIGHT RELATIONSHIPS --- as a means            
         by which to insure our own righteousness; nor    
           as a means to insure their righteousness ---   
             as isolated individuals as such.             
                                                          
     We cannot successfully threaten/punish others        
       by means of RIGHT RELATIONSHIPS --- as a means     
         by which to insure that they behave rightly ---  
           so that they will be righteous in our own eyes.
             Excommunication is not a right tool to be    
               used in promoting any kind of              
                 RIGHT RELATIONSHIPS or any meaningful    
                   righteousness of individuals ---       
                     as alienated individuals as such.    
                       Excommunications lead to our own   
                         alienations --- as much as to    
                           other people's alienations.    
                             Excommunications are always  
                               mutual in nature; leading  
                                 to EVIL RELATIONSHIPS;   
                                   i.e., to the condition 
                                     of BEING IN SIN.     
                                                          
     We ARE IN SIN; i.e., NOT IN RIGHT RELATIONSHIPS ---  
       if we gain a pleasure or a sense of superiority in 
         perceiving others as NOT-RIGHTEOUS-INDIVIDUALS;  
           as INDIVIDUALIZED SINNERS and/or EVIL PEOPLE;  
             for such pleasure/arrogance is a clear sign  
               of our being in a condition of alienation  
                 from those whom we LOOK DOWN UPON; from  
                   our FALSE SENSE OF BEING IN HEAVEN.    
                                                          
     Arrogance and self-righteousness are signs of the    
       inadequacy of OUR RELATIONSHIPS OF ALIENATION ---  
         not the proof of our inadequacy as individuals,  
           apart from HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS.              
                                                          
     Apart from HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS we cannot know much 
       about individuals as such, and so are not qualified
         to make judgements about individuals as such.    
                                                          
     Alienated, arrogant and self-righteous individuals   
       are not qualified to make judgements about how     
         good, saved, superior, or inferior each self or  
           other individual is.    Neither are such       
             isolated individuals qualified to prescribe  
               what others must do to achieve any true    
                 kind of RIGHTEOUSNESS or state of being  
                   fulfilled in RIGHT RELATIONSHIPS.      
                                                          
     BEING ALIENATED from others undermines possibilities 
       of being qualified to make reliable judgements     
         about others; or about self in comparison to     
           others from whom one is alienated.  When we    
             are alienated from others,  we cannot make   
               ourselves or others BE GOOD; we cannot     
                 achieve the knowledge of who is good and 
                   who is evil --- for such knowledge is  
                     outside the reach of people who are  
                       in the state of BEING ALIENATED;   
                         and the more they reach for such 
                           knowledge, the farther it      
                             becomes beyond their reach.  
                                                          
     When we are not in RIGHT RELATIONSHIPS we are        
       tied in knots of not-knowing ourselves or others   
         in any RIGHT RELATIONSHIPS.  We cannot untie our 
           GORDIAN KNOTS from the inside, because we fear 
             the discovery of what is outside of our warm 
               collusive games of mutual self deception.  
                 We cannot see-ourselves-as-others-see-us;
                   & deceive ourselves that we can see our
                     selves as better-than-others-see-us. 
                       Such dishonest seeing ties us up   
                         into up-tight GORDIAN KNOTS of   
                           insecure defensive individuals 
                             who do not know each other in
                               shared holy/sacred/true    
                                 sanctuaries of LOVERS;   
                                   built together in ways 
                                     which are truly      
                                       cooperative/civil  
                                         in Love's ways.  
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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