This is http://www.essayz.com/b0206251.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.} ========================================================== %FACTORS DIFFICULT OPEN HONEST PARTICIPANTS VICTIMS+020625 %DOMINATION SYSTEM STRUCTURE LEADERS ACCOUNTABLE IT+020625 %TACIT IMPLICIT SECRET HIDDEN DENIED CONCEALED LAWS+020625 %CLARIFY CERTAINTY HUMILITY SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS EVIL+020625 %RESIST NON-VIOLENTLY NON-COERCIVELY CREATIVELY GOD 020625 What are some of the factors which make it exceedingly difficult for participant-victims of "The Domination System" to be open and honest with each other about how they are victims and how they are participants within the realm of "The Domination System"? 1. Within the realm of "The Domination System" there is no evident STRUCTURE OF LEADERS of "The Domination System" --- who can be held accountable for how "The Domination System" does and does not function. Its structure is entirely: tacit, implicit, secret, hidden, denied, concealed, etc. True accountability is forbidden! 2. Within the realm of "The Domination System" there are no evident honest RULES, LAWS, COMMANDMENTS, OR PROPER PROCEDURES. To honestly clarify RULES would undermine the "integrity" of "The Domination System --- upon which all participant-victims "depend" for security, meaning and self-esteem. True clarity if forbidden! 3. Within the realm of "The Domination System" its victim-participants are NEVER REALLY FREE TO BE OPEN AND HONEST WITH THEMSELVES AND/OR EACH OTHER about anything which is truly important, meaningful or essential to them. Any such freedom would undermine the "integrity" of "The Domination System --- upon which all "depend" for security, meaning and self-esteem. True honesty is forbidden! Within the realm of "The Domination System" ALL of the following must be discredited, denigrated and/or eliminated --- BECAUSE each one will undermine the "integrity" of "The Domination System" upon which all participant-victims "depend" for security, meaning and self-esteem: 1. True and healthy friendships, intimacy and sexuality. 2. Creativity, imagination, visions, aspirations, dreaming, hoping, initiations, revelations, prophecies, and loss-of-control. 3. Small cell groups assembled for discussion and/or prayer; or any two or three gathered together in intimate dialogue. 4. Worshipers of anything but the hidden Domination System. 5. Counselors and advisors who are helpful without showing due respect for "The Domination System". 6. Publications, writings and speeches which fail to show due respect for "The Domination System". 7. Schools, colleges and universities which fail to show due respect for "The Domination System. 8. Religious groups and factions which fail to show due respect for "The Domination System". 9. People and communities that demonstrate personal and communal integrities in mutually balanced ways. 10. People and communities which provide the gifts of the freedom to be safely vulnerable within sanctuaries in open and honest dialogue. After people have discerned how/why they as participant-victims of "The Domination System" find it hard to be open and honest with each other about about their situations: How can people, creatively help each other in transcending their situation; e.g., in understanding, talking about, and subverting "The Domination System"? 1. By envisioning (and training-in) how to RESIST "The Domination System" in NON-VIOLENT and NON-COERCIVE ways which are parts of as a continuing process --- not just parts of crisis-interventions. See Walter Wink's book "The Powers that Be" and consult with peacemaker groups experienced in engaging in DISCIPLINED RESISTANCE which is NON-VIOLENT; in the style of Jesus, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, and leaders of the many national movements of non-violent liberation in the 1980's as described by Walter Wink in "The Powers That Be". 2. By understanding under what circumstances supporters of "The Domination System" are engaging in illegal activities --- for which there are legal and judicial remedies under contractual, civil, religious, and professional laws, rules and regulations; e.g., domestic and sexual abuse laws which the designated authorities are mandated to enforce. 3. By understanding that often supporters of "The Domination System" are engaging in contentious activities which are best resisted in informal ways which include private and public: exposure, descriptions, humor, criticism, and analysis. 4. By understanding and acknowledging that supporters of "The Domination System" can and do abuse even the best provisions of Robert's Rules of Order; because the rules lead participants within purely formal meetings into the trap of asking only questions which can be responded to with either a "yes" or "no" answer. Supplementary informal procedures must be used in order to be able to subvert such formal-meeting-contentiousness and abuses. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================