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 %DIFFERENT PEOPLE KINDS THINGS IDEALS VALUES RULES+020429
 %REGULATIONS FORMALITIES DESCRIPTIONS PRESCRIPTION+020429
  %COMMAND INJUNCTION ORDER GENERALIZATION CONCRETE+020429
    %STORIES MYTHOLOGY COSMOLOGY DIVINE LEADER GODS+020429
  %INCLUSION ACCEPT EXCLUSION REJECTION HOSPITALITY+020429
   %PERVERSION SEDUCTION REVERSION TRUTHS INSTITUTE 020429
                                                          
     Different people often affirm different kinds of     
"things"; e.g.:                                           
                                                          
     1. Ideals, values and principles.                    
     2. Rules, laws, regulations, formal procedures.      
     3. Descriptions vs prescriptions & proscriptions     
     4. Commandments, injunctions, orders.                
     5. Abstracts generalizations vs concrete statements. 
     6. Stories, mythologies, cosmologies.                
     7. Stories about great/divine leaders.               
     8. Statements about God, creation, end-times.        
     9. Prophets, prophecies; judges, judgements.         
    10. Inclusions, acceptance; exclusions, rejections.   
                                                          
     Given that some that some set of "things" are "before
us" because of affirmations which have been made regarding
them,   and  given  some  contentious  responses  to  such
affirmations;  different people may respond to them and/or
work with them differently because of:                    
                                                          
     1.  Differences  among  persons as  regards:   fears,
hopes, anxieties, aspirations, anxieties, injuries, mental
illnesses,      physiological     injuries,      memories,
forgetfulness, repressions, suppressions, etc.            
                                                          
     2.  Biological  and  cultural  inheritances  via  DNA
strands and strands of relationships within the  different
family trees.                                             
                                                          
     3.  Differences  in  people's  ways  of  representing
different realities through:  stories, images, art, music,
songs,   dance,   abstractions,   mathematics,   sciences,
histories,  literature,  myths,  concepts,   vocabularies,
syntaxes,  etc. ---  with differences in emphasis upon the
various components.                                       
                                                          
     4.  Different levels of preoccupation with issues of:
control,  dominance,  perfection,  creativity, conformity,
tolerance, diversity, unification, integrity, integration,
traditions,  renewal, healing,  destruction, construction,
reformation, feelings, emotions, perceptions, convergence,
divergence, etc.                                          
                                                          
     5.  Differences in  what kinds of leaders  people are
willing to trust,  respect, honor, support, obey,  accept,
and empower.                                              
                                                          
     Power  corrupts  and  absolute power  often  corrupts
absolutely.                                               
                                                          
     Beware  of  people who concentrate power in  too  few
kinds  of  "things"  and "possible leaders"  ---   to  the
exclusion  of other complementary kinds of  "things"   and
possible "leaders".                                       
                                                          
     Beware  of leaders who are:  exclusive,  domineering,
intolerant, fearful, perpetually-anxious, defensive ---and
prone   to   leaded  their  followers-and-enemies  to   be
likewise:   exclusive,  dominant,   intolerant,   fearful,
perpetually anxious,  defensive,  etc.    Such people lead
each other to behave in ways which undermine all kinds  of
essential   foundations  to  both  personal  and  communal
integrity.    Such leaders may be sincere and/or appear to
be sincere; yet think, behave, and related to other people
in ways which:                                            
                                                          
     1.  Pervert many,  if not all,  of the  "things"  and
"people" whom they "affirm".                              
                                                          
     2.  Engender   collusive   games   of   mutual   self
deception,   addictions,  codependent relationships,   un-
healthy enabling and/or rescues; heretical affirmations of
exclusive     parts    of    paradoxical    coherent/whole
affirmations, etc.                                        
                                                          
     3.  Make it nearly impossible to  clarify,  describe,
articulate,  recognize, understand, transcend,  or subvert
the alienative processes which they engender.             
                                                          
     4.  Lead their  followers  to  distrust,   fear,  and
denigrate people who try to clarify, describe, articulate,
recognize,    understand,   transcend,   or  subvert   the
alienative processes which they engender.                 
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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