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   %EVOLVING IDOLATROUS MISSIONS STATEMENTS PERSONS 030508
%GROUP CHURCH RELIGION BUSINESS MILITARY INDUSTRIAL 030508
%COMPLEX PUBLIC GOAL MEANS TECHNOCRATS GOODS DEVILS 030508
 %COMPONENTS OPERATIVE ULTIMATE CONCERNS LEGITIMATE 030508
%TACIT HIDDEN COLLUSIVE DENIGRATION AFFIRMATION SIN 030508
%UNILATERAL BALANCE CONTROL DOMINATION ARROGANT GOD 030508

     Often it is helpful for a group, business,  church or
other   organization   to  formulate  a   public   mission
statement;  e.g.,  a  statement of what its goal is to be.
Such  a public mission statement lets the public know what
to  expect of those who make it known ---  so that members
of  the public may be attracted for services or to  be  of
service  ---   with those working to  fulfill  the  stated
mission.

     It  is sometimes difficult to sort out what  are  the
operative components in a "mission statement".    What are
the  ultimate  values which are affirmed?    What are  the
legitimate  means which may be used in seeking to  fulfill
the  mission  statement?    What are means which  are  NOT
legitimate?     What affirmations MUST be avoided?    What
affirmations must be denigrated?   Some of these questions
are  never asked ---  but yet are answered in tacit/hidden
ways which are not published.

     Some   groups   become  focused  upon   some   means,
technology,     tools  or machinery;    rather  than  upon
anything  having  to  do   with   humane;   relationships,
ideals, values, virtues, reverence, etc.

     Some   groups   become   focused   upon   trying   to
UNILATERALLY:   manage,  change,    indoctrinate,    save,
redeem, or rescue people.

     Some groups UNILATERALLY try to eliminate "evil" from
wherever they discern "evil"  to reside; e.g.,  in certain
people, groups, or places.

     When  we consider overt or covert missions of various
people  or  groups ---  we need to be aware of and  beware
of UNILATERAL  "missions"   which are prone to  evolve  in
ways   which  threaten  the  "Essential  Foundations   for
Personal  and Communal Integrity."   Such  missions  often
become idolatrous!
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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