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%ABSENT LACKING ESTRANGEMENT ALIENATION MISSING SIN+020520
%SANCTUARIES FAMILIES SCHOOL WORKPLACE CHURCHES GOD+020520
 %DEATH GONE SYNAGOGUES MOSQUES PROFESSIONAL GROUPS+020520
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     Most humans live within communities of people who are
       meaningful to the members of the communities ---   
         through networks of personal relationships       
           between members of the communities; families,  
             schools, work-places, churches, synagogues,  
               mosques, professional groups, lodges, etc. 
                                                          
     Some humans live WITHOUT communities of people who   
       are meaningful to the humans; who are NOT bonded to
         any network of personal relationships; loners, or
           individuals who know only other individuals who
             do not know each other within any network of 
               inter-related relationships.  Such humans  
                 lack much which other humans take for    
                   granted --- and sometimes strike       
                     out as terrorists who do not         
                       know how to connect or             
                         cooperate in ways                
                           which are civil.               
                                                          
     Some creative/non-conformist humans are excluded from
       communities, or find it difficult to function well 
         within the communities which they are aware of;  
           even though they are physically present within 
             various communities.  They live within       
               the physical territories of some           
                 communities, but are not of              
                   the communities in any                 
                     meaningful ways.                     
                                                          
     Some humans live so exclusively within their work-   
       community that when they retire they are at a      
         loss for how to connect in meaningful ways       
           with any new community; even if they find      
             isolated ways to keep themselves busy.       
                                                          
     Some humans become entrapped within exclusive        
       religious communities and are in-terror-of         
         being excommunicated/shunned by even             
           their closest family members; so               
             they live dishonest lives of                 
               alienation, wherein they                   
                 cannot be true to                        
                   themselves or                          
                     to others.                           
                                                          
     Even people who are apparently members of some       
       meaningful communities, may not in truth           
         be meaningfully in dialogue with any             
           of the members of "their" own                  
             communities.  They may have                  
               no sanctuary wherein they                  
                 know security as the                     
                   freedom to be safely                   
                     vulnerable within an                 
                       intimate relationship.             
                         Tragedies endure in              
                           such communities;              
                             even when there is           
                               no public notice           
                                 of the tragedies.        
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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