This is http://www.essayz.com/b0208033.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.} ========================================================== %PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE HONEST DESCRIPTION DYSFUNCTION+020803 %BEHAVIORS PROPER SOURCE AUTHORITY ABSOLUTE TRUTHS+020803 %HONOR RESPECT SUPPORT ATTITUDE PATTERNS ASSUMPTION+020803 %POWERS THAT BE DOMINATION SYSTEM COLLUSIVE GAMES 020803 Scientists' DESCRIPTIONS of dysfunctional patterns of human behaviors may be characterized by domineering people as "passive aggressive behavior". Domineering people often regard themselves as being the the ONLY PROPER SOURCE of: authority, truth, honor, respect and support. Given their frame of mind, attitude, and patterns of assumptions --- domineering people are bound to regard gracious people who authentically DESCRIBE what they perceive to be taking place within domineering patterns of relationships --- as subversive challenges to the ONLY PROPER SOURCE of authority; i.e., as passive aggressive behavior. Domineering people are usually in the service of "The Powers That Be" in support of "The Domination System". As such, they must be playing collusive games of mutual self deception, supporting addictive behaviors, and being served by groups of codependent supporters --- who are loyal to the domineering people as the ONLY PROPER SOURCE of: authority, truth, honor, respect and support. Any persons who fails to be enthusiastic supporters of such domineering people --- are thus seen by the domineering people as improperly resisting them as legitimate authorities. Domineering people find their fulfillment in conflict, contests for control and violent ways of winning control. Resistance to their patterns of domination, conflict, contests, competition and violence is o.k. --- so long as the resistance is overtly and honestly violent. What domineering people cannot tolerate, and will not tolerate, is resistance which is intentionally NONVIOLENT in planned ways which are guided by Love. Such NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE is intolerable and must be converted into VIOLENT resistance. One way to occasion such a conversion is to characterize the NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE as "passive-aggressive-behavior; i.e., as resistance to legitimate power and authority which does not "play by their powerful authoritative rules". The people who are likely to be viewed as PASSIVE- AGGRESSIVE people (by domineering people) include the following: 1. True disciples of Jesus, Mohammed, Gandhi, M.L. King, Nelson Mandela, and other leaders of the non- violent revolutions which substantially freed more than a majority of all of human-kind in the 1980's in national movements of liberation around the world --- from dominant leaders of oppression. 2. Scientists who are truly dedicated to seeking to transcend and subvert bias --- in their efforts to research and describe objects and objective relationships at all accessible ranges of size, speed, distance and time --- within the whole realm of the cosmos/universe from the beginning of time, space and knowledge. 3. True lovers who seek to enter into authentic personal relationships and sanctuaries wherein they liberate each other to be safely vulnerable in intimate relationships which are free of: domination, deception, pretense, arrogance, self-righteousness and controllers. 4. Political leaders who are truly dedicated to the equitable distribution of political power, knowledge and wealth --- in ways which promote the gracious evolution of civility, civilization, personal integrity and communal integrity. 5. Business leaders who are truly dedicated to being of honest service to their customers --- meeting their real human needs and desires with both personal and communal integrity. We are likely to become entrapped within domineering people's dysfunctional patterns of attitudes, assumptions and thought --- to become like them --- if we do not understand why they want us to be like them -- and want us to enter into their kinds of conflicts with them on their terms. We need to understand them to stand on firm ground in rejecting their accusations that we are engaging in passive-aggressive patterns of behavior --- that are by definition illegitimate ways of resisting their patterns of dysfunctional behavior that are founded upon dishonesty, collusions, addictions, codependent supporters and preoccupations with issues of control/domination. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================