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 %ALIENATE META ESTRANGED DISINTEGRATE IDOLS VALUES 030526
 %PRINCIPLES GUIDELINES BOUNDARIES LAWS LAWYERS SIN 030526
 %COMMAND SCRIPT TABOO REALITY INFALLIBLE GUIDE GOD 030526
 %REVERENCE CONTEXTS PROVISIONAL SITUATIONS HUMBLED 030526
  %GRACIOUS UNPRETENTIOUS GENTLE DOMINATION SYSTEMS 030526

        No ONE:  person, group, gang; idea,  ideal,  idol;
value,  principle, guideline, boundary; law, lawyer, rule,
commandment, scripture, prescription, proscription, taboo,
or  other  reality  of which we are aware (or  can  become
aware)   ---   can  always  be  safely  regarded  in   ALL
circumstances  as our ONLY infallible guide ---  in  terms
which  we can mutually understand,  agree upon and utterly
rely  upon.   All such realities can be safely  reverenced
only  contextually and provisionally ---  in the light  of
many  other  such realities ---  including especially  the
most:  humble, gracious,  unpretentious and gentle of them
all ---  when they have been getting less of our attention
that is their due.

     To  become  (and continue to be)   people/communities
that are demonstrating personal/communal integrities ---we
must usually be willing, able and free --- to turn some of
our  attention to some:  humble,  gracious,  unpretentious
and gentle realities ---  which have recently been getting
too little of our  attention.   NONE of them can safely be
allowed to dominate over all others at any time.   None of
them  be  allowed to be regularly ignored and fall by  the
way-side.     No   ONE  reality  within   our   realm   of
consciousness   and  understanding  ---   can  safely   be
worshipped as "Our God" --- to the denigration of others.

     It  is  idolatrous and ultimately  disintegrative  to
worship  any ONE REALITY which we can understand and  make
use of.   The more sure we are of our perceptions and ways
of  understanding ---  the more dangerous it is for us  to
worship  that which we presume to perceive,   analyze  and
understand  with  total  reliability.     Be-aware-of  and
beware-of  those  people  among  us  who  feel  and  think
otherwise.   They are usually not wise, prudent, gracious,
humble or gentle.   As leaders they lead others toward the
disintegration of people and communities.

     So  long as any ONE isolated:  person,  group,  gang,
ideal,  etc. ---  is permitted to dominate most others ---
so   long  will  personal  and  communal   disintegrations
dominate them all; including ALL of us.

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