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   %EXTREMISTS REASONING FAULTY FACTS RELATIONSHIPS+021229
    %EXCLUDED ABSENT MISSING REJECTED COMPLEMENTARY+021229
  %UNBALANCED COMPETITION CONTENTION CONFLICT DEVIL+021229
  %AFFIRM ACCEPT PROTEST WORSHIP IDOLATRY TERRORISM+021229
 %DYSFUNCTIONAL DOMINATION CONTROL LAWS ORDERS SINS+021229
%ARROGANCE SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS PRETENTIOUS DISHONEST 021229
                                                          
     Extremists' reasoning is usually faulty because of   
      facts and relationships which the extremists have   
       EXCLUDED from their consideration --- since they   
        believe that only a very few facts/relationships  
         merit any consideration.                         
                                                          
     Many extremists can be effectively described in      
      terms of what facts, relationships, etc. they       
       EXCLUDE from consideration --- rather than in terms
        of what facts, relationships, beliefs, convictions
         and ideals they AFFIRM in positive ways through  
          both words and deeds.                           
                                                          
     Many extremists can be effectively described in terms
      of what very few "things" they worship as idols in  
       religious or secular forms of idolatry.  Such      
        extremists are willing to sacrifice all other     
         "things", people, values, ideals, virtues, etc.  
          --- in their idolatrous worship of the very few 
           things which they affirm/idolize as idolaters. 
            Often such extremists are overtly religious   
             leaders within extremists' religious groups. 
              Other times they are overtly non-religious  
               leaders supporting capitalist, socialist,  
                communist, or some other utopian system   
                 for organizing a community/economy --- in
                  ways which please domineering leaders   
                   who concentrate power into their own   
                    hands within such a system. We need   
                     to seek to discern their overt and   
                      their hidden motives for affirming  
                       and idolizing what they worship.   
                        What is the evidence, if any,     
                         that they are demonstrating      
                          forms of personal and communal  
                           integrity which are honest,    
                            open, coherent, graceful,     
                             kind, loving, just, etc?     
                              Absent such evidence        
                               be-aware and beware!       
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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