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 %REGULAR SYSTEMATIC SYSTEMIC ABSENCE PRESENCE FAIL 040105
 %FOCUS TIME ATTENTION RESOURCES AFFIRM CONFESS ACT 040105
 %ASSOCIATE REVEAL FIGHT AGAINST ATTACK SUPPORT GOD 040105
 %PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITY INTEGRATION SYNTHESIS 040105
 %ASSEMBLY RELIGIOUS CHURCH POLITICAL SCHOLARY LOVE 040105
  %EVIL REJECTION ESCLUSION RACIAL PREJUDICE SEXUAL 040105
 
     There  is a human tendency to focus attention on what 
people DO:  say,  affirm, confess and associate themselves 
with;  rather than upon what people DO-NOT:  say,  affirm, 
confess, do, and associate themselves with. 

     Often  it  is very revealing to  take  note  of  what 
people spend much time fighting against;  for that reveals 
much  about what it is that they FEAR.  Even  though  what 
they  fight  against may not be that which they most FEAR, 
we may be able discern some interesting things about  what 
they most FEAR ---  by taking note of what they fight most 
strenuously against. 
     
     We  will do well to take note of what kinds of people 
are regularly/systematically  absent  from assemblies  of: 
religious, political, scholarly, scientific, business, and 
other kinds of groups.    Their regular and/or  systematic 
absence  may be due to overt exclusions,  lack of interest 
on the  part  of  those absent,  due  to more  interesting 
and/or  important  activities at the same time,  or  other 
understandable reasons.    We need to keep in mind that it 
takes  a  higher  level of internationality to   recognize 
a  regular  and/or systematic absence of  some  particular 
kinds  of  people  ---   than it takes to   recognize  the 
presence  of  unexpected kinds  of  people.       Who   is 
regularly  and/or  systematically absent from a group  may 
tell  more  about  the group than who  is   regularly  and 
systematically present in the group. 
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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