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  %HUMANE COMMUNITIES FORMATION SURVIVAL BOUNDARIES 030517
%ACCEPTED REJECTED EXCLUDED INCLUDED PRIVILEGED GOD 030517
  %INFLUENTIAL POWERS CONCENTRATIONS BEING TOGETHER 030517
 %COOPERATE COLLABORATORS ENFORCEMENT POLICE FORCES 030517
 %SMALL INTIMATE GROUPS TOLERATED FORBIDDEN REPRESS 030517
 %DOMINATION SYSTEM SEXUAL TABOOS ALIENATION WEALTH 030517

    Humane  communities  cannot form and  survive  without
some  boundaries  which  speak gracefully to issues   such
as  those  pointed to by the following questions:

     1.  Who should be IN, and who should be OUT?

     2.  Who  should  have what:   privilege,   powers and
opportunities to be influential; and who SHOULD NOT?

     3.  How  much  and  what kinds of  powers  should  be
CONCENTRATED in a few people;  and how much and what kinds
of  power should be distributed WIDELY among all those  in
the community --- however the community is defined?

     4.  How  sharp should the boundary lines be:   drawn,
articulated,   enforced?    By what methods,  and by whom?
Should they be fuzzy boundaries, dichotomous;  both kinds,
or all of one kind?

     5.  What  kinds of subsidiary communities  should  be
tolerated, forbidden, repressed, destroyed, etc?

     6.  What  kinds of further considerations should play
major,  if not dominant roles,  in responding to the above
initial questions?

         a.  Theological?
          b.  Mythological?
           c.  Cosmological?
            d.  Philosophical?
             e.  Ritualistic?
              f.  Confessional?
               g.  Scientific?
                h.  Gender roles/duties?
                 i.  Sexual orientation?
                  j.  Sexual behavior in private?
                   k.  Sexual behavior in small groups?
                    l.  Sexual behavior in public?
                     m.  Sexual discussions in public?
                      n.  How fully should taboos on
                          discussions of sexual behaviors
                          be regulated in private/public?
                          By what means, alienative ones?

                      o.  How should broken-taboos be
                          dealt with?   Through
                          punishments, excommunications,
                          formalities, very informal
                          procedures, etc?

                      p.  What Wealth concentrations
                          should be tolerated;
                          redistributed?

               How much attention should be given to:

               q.  Openness and honesty?
               r.  Authenticity and integrity?
               s.  Dis-ease and diseases?
               t.  Vulnerability, security & sanctuaries?
               u.  Domination and codependence?
               v.  Addictions and collusions?
               w.  Domination Systems of various kinds?
               x.  Arrogance and self-righteousness?
               y.  Humility and repentance?
               z.  Conformity and creativity?

     How  are covenants,  (formal and/or   informal)   ---
which  guide  communities  and small groups to  come  into
being --- to be honored for-the-common-good?

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