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%PERSONIFICATION PATTERNS ESSENTIAL FOUNDATIONS GOD+020830
%EFFECTIVE COPING STRATEGY IDEALS VALUES ASSUMPTION+020830
 %ATTITUDES EXPRESS ABSTRACT MYTHOLOGY MYSTIC ROLES+020830
%MODELS INCARNATIONS STORIES PARABLES NOVELS VISION+020830
%CONCEPTIONS DOCTRINES DOGMA RULES LAWS COMMANDMENT+020830
 %SATAN DEVIL LUCIFER TEMPTER LAWYER ATTORNEY JUDGE 020830
                                                          
     Humans  often  cope through  the  PERSONIFICATION  of
PATTERNS of  whatever they perceived  to be the ESSENTIAL 
FOUNDATIONS for maintaining their "integrities".          
                                                          
     PERSONIFICATION  may  be  regarded  as  an  effective
coping   strategy  for  dealing  with   ideals,    values,
assumptions, attitudes,   etc.   which  may  otherwise  be
expressed abstractly,  mythologically,  mystically,  or in
some "equivalent" way.   Examples, exemplars, role-models,
stories, parables,  novels, music, songs, dance, etc.  may
play parallel roles in these regards.                     
                                                          
     Humans often PERSONIFY their conceptions of the ideal
humane-person;   and  their  conceptions  of  the  extreme
opposite of the ideal humane-person; e.g., on the one hand
good-angels,  and on the other hand  evil-angels such  as:
Satan, Lucifer or The Devil.                              
                                                          
     Such  PERSONIFICATIONS  are  real TO US only  to  the
extent that for us the PERSONIFICATIONS well represent (or
present)  the conceptions which they stand for;  i.e.,  to
the extent that the PERSONIFICATIONS demonstrate some form
of  "integrity"   and "coherence"  with their  represented
reality  ---  including when they represent "demons"   and
"evil"   in their  various  misleading/dishonest/concealed
forms.                                                    
                                                          
     Individuals   are  not  originally  "evil"   in   any
essential  way,   even  though individuals are  often  not
"perfect" in any conformal way.  God's creations are good.
Individuals  are born as unique persons with many  diverse
potentials  ---   not  as  robots of  some  standard   and
perfectly programed FORM  ---   which  is  predestined  to
perFORM  certain FORMalities in  FORMal ways which conFORM
to  an  ideal  FORM which resides in the  realm  of  IDEAL
FORMS.                                                    
                                                          
     Individuals  may be born into and/or become  embedded
in RELATIONSHIPS which  are characterized by:  dishonesty,
deception,    false-appearances,   domination,   coercion,
FORMalities, conFORMities, FORMulas, controls, collusions,
addictions,  codependencies,   selfishness,  greed,  fear,
anxiety,  concealments,  narcissism,  autism,  etc.   Such
relationships   are   EVIL   to  the   extent   that   the
RELATIONSHIPS are dominated in  systemic ways by the above
indicated characteristics within a fabric of TIGHTLY WOVEN
dishonest  threads.   EVIL RELATIONSHIPS lead people  into
isolation, alienation, estrangement and excommunications. 
                                                          
     INDIVIDUALS  who are wrapped up in such a  completely
dishonest fabric --- often become PERSONIFICATIONS of  the
EVIL  RELATIONSHIPS/CHARACTERISTICS within which they find
that  they must learn/devise  how to respond to  and  cope
with the challenges of life --- including the challenge of
how to survive in some sense which makes sense to them  as
they are,  within the confusing chaos around them.   Often
such challenged people respond  in  ways  which  blur  the
boundaries between themselves  and  other individuals; and
between   themselves  AS-INDIVIDUALS. Their responses blur
their  perceptions  of  the natures of  the  RELATIONSHIPS
within which they find themselves.   Confusion, dishonesty
and  ignorance  dominate both such RELATIONSHIPS  and  the
INDIVIDUALS embedded in the RELATIONSHIPS.    Personal and
communal integrities  are sacrificed --- to go through the
motions of appearing  "acceptable"  and "good"  in keeping
with the demands of "the system".                         
                                                          
     Often  in  the  above  confusion  ---   the  confused
INDIVIDUALS label  "different"  people as INHERENTLY-EVIL-
INDIVIDUALS   who  must  be  dominated,   controlled,   or
destroyed  ---   in  order  to  protect  what  is  "good".
INDIVIDUALS  who are embedded in EVIL  RELATIONSHIPS  tend
to:   judge,   blame,  shame,  guilt,   condemn,   reject,
ostracize,   excommunicate  and  destroy  each  other  ---
thereby    increasing   their   levels   of    alienation,
estrangement, confusion, ignorance, etc.  They often think
that they are thereby working to  eliminate and/or destroy
EVIL.    They are so confused, mis-inFORMed,  un-inFORMed,
ill-at-ease and  dis-eased --- that they augment EVIL when
they  try to overcome/destroy EVIL.   They are the victims
of   the  dis-eases  and  being-ill-at-ease   which   EVIL
RELATIONSHIPS  engender ---  AND SO ARE THE GENERATORS  OF
SUCH  DIS-EASE.    They try to save themselves at  others'
expense,   but that is impossible for them to do;  so they
fail no matter how much they sacrifice in their efforts to
achieve  security  just  for themselves ---   without  any
justice or concern for the victims of their efforts.      
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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