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  %TRUE ACCURATE DESCRIPTION STATEMENTS DOMINEERING+030417
  %PRESCRIPTION PROSCRIPTION SHOULD COULD WOULD MAY+030417
  %BEHAVIOR QUESTIONED NATURAL CONSEQUENCE ENGENDER+030417
  %ALIENATION ESTRANGEMENT EXCOMMUNICATION DISTRUST+030417
  %CONTENTIOUS CONFLICT VIOLENCE DESTRUCTION ATTACK+030417
  %SAFELY VULNERABLE SECURITY SANCTUARY HONESTY GOD 030417

     The  following statements are here presented as  true
and accurate descriptions of how some here-unnamed persons
behave.  The statements are NOT presented as prescriptions
or   proscriptions stating how particular people should or
should-not  behave.    The statements are NOT  represented
here as based upon any scriptural statements,  or based on
any other authoritative foundation.

     In regards  to  the following statements one question
which needs to be asked and addressed  is  the question of
the accuracy of the following descriptive statements.  Are
the  statements accurately  descriptive  of how some here-
unnamed persons behave; e.g., accurate descriptions of how
some  domineering  persons  behave.   Are   the statements
regarding the NATURAL consequences of domineering peoples'
behaviors --- accurate statements?

      Domineering  people's   behaviors  often   engender:
alienation,    estrangement,   excommunications, misunder-
standings,    distrust,   contentiousness,  conflicts  and
violence  ---   leading   to both  personal  and  communal
disintegration as NATURAL consequences of domination.

     Some   domineering   people  will  object   to   true
statements being made --- because they expose to the light
of   public  discussion   the   nature   of   the  NATURAL
consequences   of domineering peoples'  behaviors!    They
want  to  be  left free to  dominate  people's:   beliefs,
thoughts,  feelings, hopes, fears  and  desires.      Such
domineering    people    often  violate   other   people's
constitutionally  guaranteed rights to communicate  openly
and honestly with each other ---  about the   consequences
of  domineering  people's   alienative behaviors!      Why
leave  domineering  people free of all criticism?

     Some domineering religious leaders will contend  that
it is right and proper for them to  impose upon vulnerable
people --- certain religious: beliefs, teachings, rituals,
prohibitions, prescriptions and proscriptions ---  because
of  commandments  found  in reliable religious scriptures;
and   because   of  conclusions  and  traditions   derived
therefrom.  Such domineering religious leaders do NOT base
their demands on accurate statements  which  describe  the
NATURAL consequences  of unwise and imprudent patterns  of
behavior.    In fact,  such domineering  religious leaders
often  insist that we ignore  many  accurate  descriptions
of   the  NATURAL  consequences  of  the   behaviors    of
domineering people.   On what grounds should such accurate
descriptions be ignored and/or repressed?

     NATURAL  consequences flow from NATURAL causes  which
are rooted in the cause-and-effect relationships which are
described    in  the  laws  of  NATURE  which  have   been
articulated by honest and well-disciplined scientists such
as: Copernicus, Galileo,  Brahe,  Kepler, Newton,  Maxwell
and  many  others.    Domineering religious  leaders  have
often   attempted  to  suppress  such  true  and  accurate
descriptions    of  the patterns  of  NATURAL   cause-and-
effect  relationships   in  the  objective  and  reflexive
realms   of life.    (Reflexive realms pertain  to  realms
wherein  people reflect  upon  their own and each  other's
actions  and  the consequences which flow NATURALLY   from
their   own  and  each  other's  actions.)     Domineering
religious leaders often try to control the  objective  and
reflexive   consequences   which  flow  from   their   own
domineering  actions and relationships.  The    alienative
consequences    of    domineering    religious    leaders'
behaviors are NOT INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCES  which transcend
human  choices;    they  are consequences  which   can  be
avoided   through   wise   and  prudent   human   choices.
Domineering religious leaders unwisely and imprudently try
to  control much which they cannot control with integrity;
e.g., other people's: beliefs, thoughts, feelings,  hopes,
fears and desires.

     It  follows  from the above that it is important  for
common people who are true lovers --- to be clear in their
own  minds and in their own communications about  who  are
the  domineering  people  whose behaviors  often  lead  to
personal and communal disintegrations.  However, rarely is
it helpful for such distinctions to be made through formal
procedures lead by religious or political leaders.

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