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  %NATURE SCOPE LIMITATIONS DUTIES RESPONSIBILITIES+030401
  %CONTROL DOMINATE OTHERS BEHAVIORS CONTROL DEVILS+030401
 %JUDGE JUDGMENTS PROPRIETY ANNOUNCE PUBLISH ERRORS+030401
     %PREACH TEACH EVANGELIST LEARN WISDOM ABSOLUTE+030401
     %TRUTH SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS ARROGANCE NARCISSISM+030401
               %EGOCENTRIC FUNDAMENTAL CONSERVATIVE+030401
                          %LIBERATION LOVERS RIGHTS 030401

     What is the nature and the scope of our duties?

     1.  To control other people's behaviors?

     2.  To control other people's behaviors --- when they
are not behaving properly?

     3.  To judge and announce whether or not other people
are behaving properly?

     4.  To  observe and describe the consequences of  how
other people behave --- so all can learn from our wisdom?

     5.  To share with other people our wisdom?

     6.  To make/coerce other people to be like us?

     7.  To  identify good-people and evil-people ---  and
protect the good-people from the evil-people?

     8.  To discern what-is-true-for-us and to-be-true to-
ourselves   and  to-each-other  with:  reverence,   grace,
patience, mercy and civility?

     9.  To unilaterally  do for others --- what  we  know
they need to have done; but cannot do for themselves?

    10.  Other  duties   or other conceptions of the scope
and limits of our responsibilities?

     Domineering people feel/believe that they have a duty
and/or  right to control and/or dominate others;  and that
others have  no duty/right to control or dominate them.

     Lovers  feel/believe  that they have NO duty or right
to dominate anybody;  and that nobody else has any duty or
right to control or dominate true lovers.

     Lovers know that their duties and rights are limited.

     Lovers  know that other people have different  duties
which are complementary to the duties of lovers.

     Lovers  know that different people may not  have  the
same duties as those that they themselves have.

     Domineering  people rarely acknowledge that their own
duties and  rights are limited --- limited  to  the extent
that  lovers have different LEGITIMATE  duties  and rights
---   including  some LEGITIMATE duties  and  rights which
domineering  people  do  NOT:    know  about,  understand,
respect, reverence and/or acknowledge.

     "The Domination System" is preoccupied with issues of
power; i.e., into whose hands should power be concentrated
and  which kinds of people should be deprived of the power
to be influential in any way.   The issues have to do with
inclusion-within  and  exclusion-from  centers of:  power,
influence, control and dominance.

     Domineering  people's duties are defined "externally"
by  "The Domination System"  which  cannot be localized in
any  particular:   time,    place,    group,   scriptures,
writings,   interpretations,    etc.   "The  System"    is
essentially  invisible  ---  so that  it  cannot  be  held
accountable   by   any transcendent:    power,   insights,
perceptions, discernments, experiences, or common people.

     Lovers'   duties are defined in-common by-lovers  in-
Love   through  balanced-dialogue   which    is:     open,
transparent, reverent,    gracious,   patient,   merciful,
civil    and  responsive  ---   with  no  one  having  the
right/duty/privilege  to be in control or dominant;    and
all  persons  are   called to  be in-service   with   each
other  in cooperative  works which benefit  all  neighbors
around.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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