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%IMPOTENT EVIL RELATIONSHIP INCOHERENT DISINTEGRATE 030823
%COUPLES GROUPS GANGS FAMILIES CITIES STATES NATION 030823
%MISLEADING COSMOLOGIES MYTHOLOGIES STORIES ASSUMED 030823
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%DOUBLE BINDS DOMINATION SYSTEM COLLUSION DISHONEST 030823

     We  will remain impotent in dealing with evil so long
as  we believe that  evil resides in individual people and
the  supreme-evil-individual,   the  Devil.   That  belief
successfully   diverts   our  attention  away   from   the
most  potent  residences  of   evil,    evil-relationships
between alienated/estranged:

     1.  Individuals,

     2.  Couples,

     3.  Families,

     4.  Tribes, cities, counties, states, nations;

     5.  Religious traditions and organizations,

     6.  Confessions and professions,

     7.  Scholarly traditions and organizations,

     8.  Political/economic traditions and organizations,

     9.  Cosmologies, mythologies, and magic systems;

    10.  Informal patterns of spirituality.

     So  long  as we are preoccupied with  the  issues  of

which-INDIVIDUALS-are-EVIL and which-INDIVIDUALS-are-GOOD;

which-INDIVIDUALS-are-SAVED & which-INDIVIDUALS-are-DAMMED

---   we  cannot  then  deal  with  how  helpfully/best to
cooperate/collaborate in  healing our  own   dysfunctional
RELATIONSHIPS  of: alienation,   estrangement,   distrust,
excommunication,  coercion, domination, resentment, anger,
revenge,  etc.

     1.  So   long  as  we  compulsively   ask  misleading
questions  ---   we cannot discern the helpful answers  to
truly revealing questions.

     2.  So  long  as scholars asked questions based  upon
the traditional Aristotelian belief that air,  water, fire
and earth are the  four primary elements;  they could  not
discover  any  of  the  true  elements such  as:   oxygen,
hydrogen, nitrogen, and silicon.

     3.  So   long   as  scholars believed  that  diseases
are  rooted   in  human  disobedience,     non-conformity,
and spiritual  impurity  ---    they  could  not  discover
the  bacteria,  molds,   prions,   and viruses which  play
central roles in many human diseases.

     4.  So long as scholars believed the fermentation was
a  chemical  reaction --- they could not discover its true
root  in  microscopic  biological  processes  ---   before
microscopes were created..

     5.  So long as scholars were firm in their conviction
that the earth was flat ---  they  could  not discover how
big  it  was  nor  how it related to  other objects in the
universe.

     6.  So long as scholars were firm in their conviction
that the earth was the center of the cosmos --- they could
not discover how the sun  was the center of our relatively
tiny solar system, that the sun revolved around the center
of the Milky Way Galaxy, and that the Milky Way Galaxy and
the  Andromeda Galaxy revolve around a point between  them
at a distance of about 1,500,0000-light-years.

     7.  So long as religious scholars  were firm in their
conviction  that  the  space  of  the cosmos is  flat  and
unchanging,   they  could  not discover  how  the  massive
objects  within  the expanding cosmos move  within  space-
time   which  is   curved  by  the  presence  of   massive
objects     moving   "straight-ahead"      through   four-
dimensional locally-curved-space-time.

     8.  So long as religions  leaders continue to believe
that religions should be firmly rooted in dominant ancient
authorities, divorced     from    contemporaneous   humane
experiences ---  they  will  be  immune to contemporaneous
visions,  revelations,  and movements of God in Her Wisdom
and  Integrity  throughout all of  the  cosmic  space-time
manifolds.

     9.  So   long  as  religious  leaders  maintain  that
ultimately  things  do not change within  their  religious
institutions,   neighborhoods,   nations   and   spiritual
realms  ---   God in Her Wisdom and Love will be kind  and
patient and not coerce them in divine efforts to overthrow
their misguided convictions.

     10.  In  the end,  eternal movements  through  space,
time, and spiritual manifolds will reveal to those who are
truly  sensitive  ---   what is real,   true,   right  and
righteous  in  humane  relationships;  and what is unreal,
dishonest,   evil  and  disintegrative  within  alienative
relationships  that  have demonstrated  where  evil  truly
resides.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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