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%ABSENCE OPEN HONEST ACCURATE REPORT OWN PERCEPTION+030929
  %INSIGHTS EXPERIENCES INTERESTS YEARNINGS DESIRES+030929
%PLEASURES HOPES ASPIRATIONS FEARS ANXIETIES DEVILS+030929
  %HYPOTHESES LAWS THEORIES COMMANDMENTS SCRIPTURES+030929
%CLAIM DOMINEERING SKILLFUL PRETENTIOUS AUTHORITIES 030929
$TRUST SELF OTHER RISKS TRUE LOVERS COLLUDERS GOODS 030929
                                                          
     In the complete absence of open,  honest and accurate
reports of their own perceptions,  insights and experience
---   from people who are now alive ---  we have no  truly
reliable way to test the modern reliability of:           
                                                          
     1.  The  claims  made by domineering  people  of  the
         ancient past and/or the present.                 
                                                          
     2.  Hypotheses and conclusions offered to us for our 
         support.                                         
                                                          
     3.  True Lovers compared to Skillful Pretentious-    
         People.                                          
                                                          
     4.  Political leaders within: secular elective       
         offices, religious elective offices,             
         professional elective offices,                   
         scientists'-elective offices, etc,               
                                                          
     5.  Competing paradigms for truly understanding      
         ancient: reports, scriptures, stories, myths,    
         parables, literature, and official documents.    
                                                          
     6.  Views of participants in power conflicts over    
         leadership positions in the past, present and    
         future.                                          
                                                          
     7.  Past, present and future cosmologies, myths, and 
         convictions.                                     
                                                          
     Domineering  people  who  seek  to  cling  to   their
positions of concentrated power,  control and benefits ---
will not be pleased to  see  many people be free to report
openly, honestly  and accurately  their  own  perceptions,
insights and experiences.    True Lovers will be wise  and
prudent  in their intimate communications with each  other
and  with  people whom they discern to be on the  road  to
being Mature True Lovers.   Be aware and beware!          
                                                          
     So  long  as we have no  sanctuary  community  within
which  we  can  be totally open,  honest and  accurate  in
reporting our own perceptions, insights and experience ---
we  have no truly reliable way to help each other to  test
the  modern reliability  of different people's  claims  of
what is true, right,  integrative;  or false,  wrong,  and
disintegrative.  How are we to escape from such a hopeless
situation?                                                
                                                          
     No authoritarian system can effectively transcend the
above   noted   human  limitations.      Beware   of   any
authoritarian system which attempts make it appear that it
has transcended the above human limitations.   The  BURDEN
TO   PROVE  that an authoritarian system  has  transcended
the above  noted  human  limitations ---  should be placed
upon  those   who  make  the claim.    We  should   expect
them  to present CONVINCING  GROUNDS FOR US TRUSTING  THEM
and their methodology for proving what they claim.        
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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