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%FEW ABSENT LACKING SUCCESS STORIES DOMINEERING SIN 030604
%CONFORMITY CONVICTION BELIEF THOUGHTS DESIRES EVIL 030604
   %INTIMATE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS IMPOSE COERCION 030604
 %INTERNATIONAL RULES HUMAN RIGHTS PRIVACY DIALOGUE 030604
%OPEN HONEST CIVIL GRACIOUS GENEROUS HOSPITABLE GOD 030604
%ARROGANT SELF RIGHTEOUS DISHONESTY ADDICTION GAMES 030604

     Are   there   any  well   documented   occasions   of
domineering  people  successfully imposing their own rules
---  rules that demand conformity to their own patterns of
conviction,   belief,  thoughts,  desires,  pleasures  and
inter-personal relationships --- WITHOUT at the same time:

     1.  Alienating themselves from those people upon whom
they have "successfully" imposed such rules?

     2.  Violating   national  and   international   rules
defining  the  human  rights of citizens who  are:   open,
honest, civil, gracious, generous, hospitable and reverent
toward others?

     3.  Themselves    demonstrating   arrogance,    self-
righteousness,   dishonesty,  addictions,  and  collusive-
games-of-mutual-self-deception.

     4.  Themselves  triggering disintegrative  feed-back-
loops  of   behaviors which UNDERMINE  both  personal  and
communal  forms of integrities of diverse kinds ---  among
people who have been healthy before?

     5.  Subverting/interfering-with healthy  covenants of
gracious   mutual-understandings   ---   which have   been
the  basis  for:   gracious,    civil,    open,    honest,
generous,    hospitable   and   reverent   ---    personal
relationships.

     6.  Violating the most integrative/gracious teachings
of the original founders of  most  of the widely respected
religious traditions.

     7.  Resorting   to  unwelcomed  forms  of  intrusion,
coercion, violence and/or threats.

     8.  Undermining,   subverting,   suppressing   and/or
repressing:  creativity,  authenticity,  common-sense  and
wisdom?

     9.  Promoting: anger, contentiousness and terrorism?

    10.  Undermining:     cooperation,      collaboration,
conflict-resolution and peacemaking.

     If  there  are  few,  if any,  such  well  documented
occasions of success ---  why are they not celebrated, and
why   are  there  not  more  of   them?    What    helpful
conclusions  should we draw from there  being few  success
stories?
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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