This is http://www.essayz.com/b0210071.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.} ========================================================== %DOMINATION SYSTEM PARADIGM SENSITIVITY SYMPATHY+021007 %EMPATHY COOPERATION WORSHIP DOMINANCE CONTROLLERS+021007 %IDOLATRY EMOTIONS DESIRES HOPES ASPIRATIONS LOVE+021007 %FRUSTRATION ANGER RAGE REVENGE FAITHFUL HUMANE SIN+021007 %FREEDOM LIBERATION HEALING RECONCILIATION LABELED+021007 %IDEAL FORMS CONFORMITY UNITY FELLOWSHIP OBEDIENCE 021007 Why are domineering people so lacking in sensitivity, sympathy and empathy? Because they worship dominance, control and manipulative considerations --- to the exclusion of sympathetic consideration of people's emotions, desires, hopes and aspirations. Domineering people are idolaters. To be faithful to "The Domination System" domineering people must sacrifice all sympathetic considerations of human emotions, desires, hope and aspirations --- in order to be free to control and dominate those who are labeled as enemies. Domineering people must desensitize themselves, as well as desensitize others --- in order to be faithful worshipers of "The Domination System". Faithful servants of "The Domination System" are not free to be humane in any way which will promote and facilitate both personal and communal integrity. What then guides the behaviors of different domineering people? They are guided by their different conceptions of them ideal forms of: ideas, ideals, values, principles, and patterns of behavior! They agree that there must be conformity. They do not agree on the ideal form which should dominate conformity. They agree that it is proper to use coercion, dishonesty, deception, appearances and violence to promote conformity. Yet they disagree on who should be in control of their choices of ideal forms. Under the rules of their paradigm they are predestined to be in conflict with different domineering people who are in their own ways worshipping "The Domination System". They have no means by which to resolve their conflicts; except through the use of a preponderance of coercion, force and violence. They are predestined to engage in tragic conflicts by their choice of what they worship in thoughtless and insensitive ways. Personal and communal integrity are beyond their conceptions and reaches. Because domineering people do not give any significant/meaningful consideration to other people's emotions, desires, hopes and aspirations --- they remain ignorant about all such things to which they do not give any significant consideration. In ignorance they cannot have much influence over ignored "things", and certainly they cannot control/dominate what they do not know. Scientists and engineers cannot influence and/or control the positions, orientations and motions of objects --- without having studied the regular patterns in how they interact with each other. Because domineering people have NOT given sympathetic consideration to how humans and their emotions, desires, hopes and aspirations interact with each other --- they deceive themselves when they think that they can influence and/or control any unfamiliar people's emotions, desires, hopes, aspirations, relationships, behaviors, communications, beliefs, convictions, intentions, etc. Domineering people certainly cannot control the ways in which other people internally respond to arrogance, self-righteousness, coercion, insolence, attacks, violence, and alienation ---especially in the absence of any understanding on the part of domineering people. Domineering people are "infected" with a common set of domineering: attitudes, assumptions, beliefs, ideals, values, principles, goals, priorities, perceptions and judgments --- which they "pass on" to young people who grow up to be another generation of domineering people. Domineering people are victims of, and carriers of, a "dis-ease" which they pass on through their behaviors, communications, judgments, etc. It is difficult for victims of domination NOT to "catch" the "dis-ease" of being domineering people. It is only those people who through miracles come to truly love each other --- who are sometimes immune to the "dis-ease" of domination. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================