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 %ESSENTIAL FOUNDATIONS PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITY 050110
%BALANCE MUTUAL OPEN HONEST KIND GENTLE CIVIL LOVER 050110
%TRUTH DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE RELATIONSHIP UNILATERAL 050110
%ONE SIDED DICHOTOMY POLARIZED CONTENTIOUS CONFLICT 050110
 %INSTITUTION RELIGIOUS DOCTRINE CONFESS STATEMENTS 050110
  %POWER WEALTH CONCENTRATION COALITION ALIENATIONS 050110

     Central  to  personal  and communal  integrities  and
integrations  are inter-personal relationships which  are:
balanced,  mutual, open, honest, kind, gentle, civil,  and
demonstrate distributive-justice.   Such relationships are
not:  unilateral, one-sided, dominated-by-one-side.   They
are cooperative/collaborative.

     The   above  observation  suggests  why  it  is  that
institutionalized     religious/political:      doctrines,
confessional-statements,   rituals, procedures,  teachings
and   standards-for-communal-acceptance  ---    tragically
often       do     occasion       unhealthy-relationships,
contentiousness, ideological-conflicts, misunderstandings,
attacks, and otherwise disintegrative behaviors.

     Pre-existing     realities    which     have     been
institutionalized within  large  formalized  organizations
--- by their pre-existing-nature cannot engage in balanced
and mutual  dialogue  with present individual humans.  The
present-young  person  or present-adult-novice is  not  on
equal  terms  with   a past  institutionalized:  doctrine,
confessional-statement,   ritual-procedure,   teaching  or
standard  for  communal  acceptance.    The   relationship
between the past-and-present is not  balanced  and mutual.
The  relationship  is one of dominance and/or  submission;
and  so  cannot be  a  demonstration  of  present  healthy
integrations and integrities.

     At  root there is often an arrogant assumption on the
part of  the powerful leaders of an  institution  --- that
they can helpfully play dominant roles as regards:  truth,
knowledge, righteousness, salvation,  redemption,  purity,
conformity,  etc.   Whenever people shift their focus away
from  the  quality of their own human  relationships;  the
quality  of  their own  relationships  are  likely  to  be
sacrificed in  efforts  to  celebrate  false-idols   like:
controls,    dominance,   wealth-concentrations,    power-
concentrations, absolute-truth,   righteousness,   purity,
ideal-forms, technologies,    military-power,    military-
industrial-complexes,  domination-systems, magical-powers,
etc.  Personal and communal disintegrations inevitably and
tragically follow the shifting of attention away from  the
qualities  of  humane relationships  --- to some realities
which are presumed/said to transcend humane relationships.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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