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   %HOW WE DIFFER INFLUENCE CONTROL EACH OTHER SELF+020505
  %COMBINATIONS PERMUTATIONS PRIMARY CONSIDERATIONS+020505
 %HEREDITARY GENETIC ASPECT EXPERIENCES FEARS HOPES+020505
  %FRIENDS ENEMY FOCUS CONCENTRATION PRIORITIES SIN+020505
 %INFLUENCE CONTROL CAUSE EFFECT RESPONSIBILITY GOD+020505
 %BLAME GUILT SHAME PUNISH LORD KING DICTATOR DEVIL+020505
   %PATTERNS IMAGES VISIONS REVELATIONS ROLE MODELS 020505
                                                          
     WE DIFFER from each other because we are guided by   
       and/or dominated by DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS AND/OR  
         PERMUTATIONS OF PRIMARY CONSIDERATIONS ---       
           due to our: hereditary/genetic aspects,        
             experiences, internalizations, fears, hopes, 
               interpretations, associations, friends,    
                 enemies, perceptions, perspectives, etc. 
                                                          
     Some of the ways in which we are different are       
       BEYOND OUR INFLUENCE AND CONTROL; e.g., heredity,  
         and experiences as infants in early childhood.   
                                                          
     Other of the ways in which we are different are      
       WITHIN OUR INFLUENCE AND CONTROL: e.g., patterns   
         of thought, behavior, habits, associations,      
           friendships, beliefs, rituals.                 
                                                          
     There are some "things" which WE CAN INFLUENCE when  
       WE CANNOT FULLY CONTROL them.  We need to discern  
         what we can do to promote and facilitate both    
           personal and communal integrity/integrations;  
             and NOT WASTE TIME AND ENERGY trying to do   
               what is not within our power to do.        
                                                          
     WE CAN INFLUENCE which: ideals, values, images,      
       principles, friends, teachers, family-members,     
         enemies, fears, hopes, aspirations, etc. ---     
           play MAJOR roles in our consciousness; and     
             which play MINOR roles.                      
                                                          
     WE CAN BE HEALTHY to the extent that we work on      
       DOING WELL WHAT-WE-CAN-DO; and do not waste our    
         times and energies on trying to do what we       
           cannot do, no matter how much time and energy  
             we waste on trying to do what we cannot do.  
                                                          
     We need to COOPERATE in selecting and ordering our   
       priorities --- with due consideration given to how 
         our doing what we do --- affects our personal    
           and communal integrities --- within our many   
             different communities and sub-communities.   
               We cannot do well IN ISOLATION/ALIENATION  
                 from each other.  To do well we must     
                   seek to mitigate/minimize all forms    
                     of isolation/alienation which we     
                       can influence --- even though      
                         we cannot control them.  Beware  
                           of arrogance, self-righteous-  
                             attitudes, exclusivity,      
                               excommunications, sin,     
                                 alienation, and other    
                                   associated kinds of    
                                     relationships that   
                                       undermine ways of  
                                         cooperating with 
                                           each other     
                                             whom we do   
                                               not know   
                                                 well,    
                                                  and so  
                                                   fear   
                                                    in    
                                                     sin. 
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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