This is http://www.essayz.com/b0205261.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %DISINTEGRATIVE ATTITUDES GROUNDED BELIEFS PATTERNS+020526 %PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS TREATMENTS CLASS PREJUDICES+020526 %BLACK WHITE YELLOW JEW CATHOLIC PROTESTANT SLAVES+020526 %LABORER MANAGER HOMOSEXUAL FEMALE WOMEN MALES GODS+020526 %SPECIAL SUPERIOR PRIVILEGE VICTIM ORIGINAL SINNERS+020526 %REVELATION DEFECTIVE SUCCESS FAILURE FALLEN POWERS 020526 DISINTEGRATIVE attitudes are often grounded in the following beliefs and/or patterns of thought: 1. It is legitimate to relate to and treat people primarily in terms of what class they belong to; black/white/yellow, Jew/Catholic/Protestant, laborer/manager, homosexual/female/male, etc. 2. Some of us have been chosen by God to be special with special duties and privileges. 3. Some of us have been born as victims of original sin, and others of us have been born forever free of sin. 4. Some of us are special, because God has revealed to us how other people are defective. 5. Some of us are defective, and there is no point in our trying to be successful in any way. 6. Some of us are superior, because we have been blessed by God with superior gifts, abilities and insights. 7. Some of us have the gift of being immune to the corrupting influence of the concentration of power --- so we should be entrusted with great power. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================