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      %OVERCOME ELIMINATE DESTROY KILL EVIL ESSENCE 030606
      %PURITY GOOD PEOPLE GODS DOMINATION PROPRIETY 030606
%STANDARDS REACTION RESPONSIBLE EITHER/OR DICHOTOMY 030606
  %QUESTION UNDERSTAND SUBVERT CIVILITY HOSPITALITY 030606
       %REVERENCE SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AUGMENT CIVILITY 030606
              %GRACE GENEROUS LOVERS RECONCILIATION 030606
                     %HEALING EDUCATION FORGIVENESS 030606

     Some   domineering   people  presume  to  be   proper
sources/channels   of  authority and/or of  authoritative:
statements,  commandments, pre-scriptions,  proscriptions,
etc.    Such people often demand either/or responses  from
us.   Either we agree with them as domineering people;  or
else  we fight with them as domineering people.   They win
us over to serve as a supporter of "The Domination System"
in  either  case.  On their terms, we  and  our  community
cannot win.

     We  cannot understand,  transcend,  or  subvert  "The
Domination System"  in either of the two dichotomous  ways
that domineering people demand that we respond to them.

     When  we believe that we are fighting "The Domination
System" with the weapons of domineering people ---  we are
playing  their  kind of collusive  games  of  mutual  self
deception; we have surrendered to them and "The Domination
System".  In trying to dominate/destroy domineering people
--- we  augment  the  evil-relationships  which  undermine
healthy-relationships  among true lovers who are:    open,
authentic,   gracious,   generous,   honest,   hospitable,
humble,   reverent,  civil,  cooperative,   collaborators,
peace-makers, etc.

     We,   for the sake of others,  need to understand and
transcend the destructive pattern of ways in which we  are
prone to respond to domineering people in domineering way;
thereby  becoming domineering people.   In our  mis-guided
efforts   to  OVERCOME  domineering people ---  we  become
domineering  people.   We must find/create non-domineering
ways  (gentle and honest ways)  to understand and  subvert
"The Domination System".

     To   "overcome  evil"    we must first  and  foremost
avoid  augmenting:    resentment,  anger,     frustration,
revenge, alienation,  estrangement, prejudices, ignorance,
chaos,  distrust,   fears,  anxiety,  hopelessness, excom-
munications,   entrapments,     double-binds,  dishonesty,
duplicity, pretentiousness, arrogance, self-righteousness,
bluster, power-concentrations, power-corruptions, etc. ---
because  such   "things"   are the  essence  of  the  evil
relationships among us.

     We  cannot  overcome  evil  by  augmenting  the  very
"things"   which are the essence of the evil relationships
among us!
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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