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 %RECOGNIZE THREATS ESSENTIAL FOUNDATIONS UNDERMINE+020324
%DESCRIBE SAY TALK SPEAK TRUTH POWER CORRUPTION SIN+020324
  %APPROACH RESPOND EITHER/OR DICHOTOMY WORTHY LOVE+020324
  %POWER CONCENTRATION MONEY PARADOX COMPLEMENT SIN+020324
 %COERCIVE REQUIREMENT BELIEF CONFESSION RITUAL SEX+020324
 %AUTHENTIC RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP EVOLUTION FRIENDS 020324
                                                          
     One  of  the essential foundations for both  personal
and  communal  integrity is for members of a community  to
know  how  to recognize and say when and how  ----   other
essential  foundations  for  both  personal  and  communal
integrity   are   threatened    and/or    undermined    by
exclusive  people  who demand that:                       
                                                          
                                                          
     1.  Things be approached and responded to their way. 
                                                          
     2.  People be approached and responded to their way. 
                                                          
     3.  Only   either/or:   questions,    responses   and
affirmations  --- be  regarded  as  acceptable,  worthy of
respect, and/or support.                                  
                                                          
     4.  Power, respect and money be concentrated into the
hands of a few people ---  those whom  they respect, honor
and support; e.g., themselves.                            
                                                          
     5.  Affirmations,    ideas,    ideals,   values   and
principles    which    are    complementary    (apparently
contradictory  to their own ---  be ignored,   criticized,
denigrated, repressed, etc.                               
                                                          
     6.  Paradoxes   be  responded  to  by  the  full  and
unqualified   affirmation  of  partial truths ---  and  by
the denial  of  other  truths which are complementary to a
few fully affirmed "absolute" truths.                     
                                                          
     7.  Their   insecurity  and  defensive  postures   be
honored, respected, and left as they are.                 
                                                          
     8.  Their  chosen/traditional positions and conflicts
be honored, respected, and supported.                     
                                                          
     The  problem  is rarely in what people  affirm;    it
is  often in  what people demand that other  people   MUST
affirm   and/or   deny.      Coerced   affirmations    are
problematic.  Some people  believe  that other people must
be   coerced  into doing what  is  good,   proper,  right,
righteous,  etc.    Such people  through coercion engender
many  EVIL    RELATIONSHIPS   which  entail:   resentment,
anger,   dishonesty,   secrecy, misrepresentations, false-
appearances,    pretense,    conflict,    contentiousness,
addictions,  and collusive games of mutual self deception.
Very   little,   if  any,   good  comes  through   coerced
affirmations.                                             
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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