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%DOMINEERING CONCENTRATION POWER CORRUPT CHECKS SIN 030610
%BALANCE CONSTITUTIONS BYLAWS PREVENTION LIMITATION 030610
  %PRESCRIPTION PROSCRIPTION SCRIPTURES INTERPRETED 030610
%MANIPULATIVE TOOL VIOLENCE COERCION DISHONESTY GOD 030610
%BALANCE MUTUALITY COVENANT AGREEMENT VULNERABILITY 030610
 %ADDICT CODEPENDENT COLLUSION RELIGIOUS LEADERSHIP 030610

     "Power  corrupts,  and  absolute   power     corrupts
absolutely.    We need systems of checks and  balances  to
prevent the corrupting effects of concentrated power.

     Domineering people in overt and/or covert ways reject
the   belief/convictions   of  many  healthy  people   ---
that  there   should   be clear  limits  placed  upon  the
freedom and ability of domineering people to:

     1.  Coercively  impose commandments,  pre-scriptions,
pro-scriptions, scriptural-interpretations, taboos,  life-
styles, beliefs, rituals, etc --- upon people who are more
vulnerable than they, the domineering people, are.

     2.  Use    dishonesty,    deception,     pretentions,
contentiousness,       arrogance,      self-righteousness,
addictions, collusions, domination-systems and codependent
supporters ---  to impose their own (or any other person's
or  group's)    will  upon people who are more  vulnerable
than they, the domineering people, are.

     3.  Concentrate    power   (religious,     political,
professional,   regulatory,   etc.)   into  the  hands  of
domineering  people like themselves ---  people who  fight
violent  battles  and wars among themselves over  who  is:
best, superior, most-dominant, saved, closest to the Heart
and Power of God, etc.

     4.  Drag   true-lovers  into  courts to be  subjected
to    accusations   of    improper-gracious     behaviors,
communications,   beliefs,   dialogue,   experiences   and
intimacies  ---   which threaten the  power-monopolies  of
domineering people.

     5.  Define  who is good and who is evil ---  in terms
of  conformity and non-conformity to standards which they,
the   domineering  people,   impose  upon  individuals  as
isolated  individuals,   apart from  humane  relationships
and/or dysfunctional relationships.

     6.  Draw  attention away from the alienative kinds of
RELATIONSHIPS between and among people ---   relationships
toward  which domineering behaviors lead people  to  move;
in efforts to protect themselves,  the domineering people,
against being exposed as dishonest leaders.

     True-lovers  need  to ask (themselves,   each  other,
domineering people, and bystanders) why domineering people
should NOT have limits placed upon them by people who  are
NOT domineering people.   Why NOT work for balance?    Why
should  people who are: open, honest,   civil,   gracious,
hospitable,  reverent, healthy, generous, humble, merciful
and just ---  NOT play significant roles in deciding  what
limits  should be placed upon domineering people  ---   to
protect the many different kinds of personal and  communal
integrities  which  God has called into being  within  Her
Diverse  and Holy Creations?   What  principles,   ideals,
values  and  visions of good-living --- would lead anybody
to oppose such non-domineering people playing  significant
roles?
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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