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  %GOOD DEVIL VIEW PERCEIVE PERSPECTIVE DISCERNMENT+030329
 %APPROPRIATE FOCUS FEAR THINGS OBJECTIVE RELATIONS+030329
%FOCI FOCUS FEAR HELPFUL DESTRUCTIVE DISINTEGRATIVE+030329
%LOVERS WEAKNESS VULNERABILITY SECURITY BALANCE GOD+030329
%CONTENTIOUS COERCION VIOLENCE ARROGANCE PRIDEFULLY+030329
 %SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS BLIND DEAF HEALER DISEASE SICK 030329

     What  is "good"  and what is "evil"  depends  greatly
upon how  we  view  things  and  relationships.   What  is
an  appropriate  focus  of fear,    and  what  is  NOT  an
appropriate  focus of fear ---  also depends greatly  upon
how we view things and relationships.

     Consider the following list of possible  foci-of-fear
which    are    alternately    helpful-foci-of-fear    and
disintegrative-foci-of-fear.

     Note  that they way in which "things"  are viewed can
make a very important difference!

     Love viewed as a sign of weakness.

        War viewed as a disintegrative activity.

     Superiority over-others viewed as being-good.

        Alienation from others viewed as being-evil.

     Achieving invulnerability viewed as being-good.

        Dis-ease in others' presence viewed as being-evil.

     Vulnerability to others viewed as being-evil.

        Honest intimacy viewed as being-good.

     Coerced-conformity viewed as being-good.

        Relaxed-authenticity seen as worthy of reverence.

     Holding-on-to-absolute-truths viewed as being-good.

        Letting-go-of-arrogance viewed as being-good.

     Excommunications viewed as tools for being-good.

        Reverence toward the transcendent viewed as good.

     Conformity viewed as the essence of all virtues.

        Honesty with others viewed as being-good.

     Cooperating with others viewed as being-weak.

        Cooperation with others viewed as being-good.

     Control over others viewed as being-good.

        Control over others viewed as alienative/strange.

     Compromising principles seen as being-evil.

        Integration of principles seen as being-good.

     Honest-descriptions viewed as threats to being-good.

        Honest-descriptions viewed as keys-to-wisdom.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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