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%ISOLATED HONEST PERSONAL INTEGRITY COMMUNAL HEALTH+021001
 %HUMANE BEING AUTHENTIC COOPERATIVE GENEROUS GRACE+021001
 %CIVILITY HOSPITALITY WELCOME CONTRARY CONTENTIOUS+021001
%SHIFT FOCUS ATTENTION PROPER CONFORMITY CONTROLLER+021001
  %BALANCE DIALOGUE DISCERNMENT TRUTH WORTHY HONORS+021001
%DISCREDITED CONCENTRATION CORRUPTION POWER CONTROL 021001
                                                          
     Upon what conscious/gracious  grounds can an isolated
individual  base  a  firm conviction that they   are  with
integrity  responding to a  dishonest  "Domination System"
--- and doing so in ways which demonstrates proper concern
for helping to maintain  their  own  integrity  AND  other
individuals' personal/communal integrities --- in spite of
contrary efforts  by  all  of  the dishonest supporters of
"The Domination System"?                                  
                                                          
     "The Domination System"  is bound to try to shift the
personal  focus  to  contentious  questions  dealing  with
"proper conformity";  i.e.,  with conformity to what  "The
Domination System" can "properly control".                
                                                          
     Healthy  individuals  need  to  maintain  their   own
personal integrities by keeping their focus  centered upon
issues pertaining  to facilitating all peoples':  honesty,
balance,  dialogue,   authenticity,   integrity,   health,
healthy-cooperation, civility, hospitality and shalom.    
                                                          
     "The Domination System" is dedicated to concentrating
all  powers into its own hands;  i.e.,  into the hands  of
those   people  who  are  dedicated  to  maintaining   and
augmenting  "The  Domination  System"  and  its  scope  of
influence.                                                
                                                          
     The dishonest efforts of "The Domination System" need
to be exposed prudently/wisely  to the light of  day;  and
thereby be discredited.    Its perverse  logic needs to be
openly   articulated   and  clarified;   and  thereby   be
discredited.   Its  misleading  assumptions  and attitudes
need to  be  revealed  for what they  are; and thereby  be
discredited.     The  narrow  and exclusive  mind-sets  of
supporters of "The Domination System"  need to be shown to
bear  bitter  fruits ---  as they do so; and   thereby  be
discredited.    Alternative  mind-sets,   assumptions  and
attitudes  need  to  be demonstrated  graciously  as  more
worthy of respect,  honor, trust and support ---  than are
the mind-sets of the supporters of  The Domination System.
                                                          
     Truly   healthy   people   focus   their    attention
intentionally  upon  ways to affirm in word and  deed  the
mutually complementary foundations  for both personal  and
communal  integrities.    Healthy people  need  to  resist
temptations  to   shift  their  attention  to  contentious
issues which are  initiated,  defined  and  harped-upon by
loyal/faithful supporters of "The Domination System".   To
respond  to domineering people  in their contentious style
---    is  to  surrender  to  them  and  become  unwitting
supporters   of   "The   Domination   System"    --- while
thoughtlessly "thinking" that one is opposing "The Devil",
"Evil",  "Evil-people",  immorality, dis-order,  etc.   We
have  failed  tragically if we become arrogant  and  self-
righteous  in  efforts  to overcome domineering  people by
becoming more domineering than they have been.            
                                                          
     People  who  are  being dominated need  to  recognize
which  are the most absurd demands which are made by  "The
Domination  System";  and become clear in their own  minds
how absurd those demands are:                             
                                                          
1.  Lie to yourself about who demonstrates real integrity.
2.  Punish yourself for telling the truth about controls. 
3.  Undermine your soul's integrity to be faithful to us. 
4.  Believe that our total concentration of power is good.
5.  Say what you do not believe ---  as if you do believe.
6.  Pretend to have no doubts when you are full of doubts.
7.  Pretend that all important questions are yes/no ones. 
8.  Pretend that you can know who is good and who is evil.
9.  Trust people who are obviously being dishonest & mean.
10. Pretend that our traditions were ordained by God.     
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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