This is http://www.essayz.com/b0506151.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %AUTHORITARIANS DOMINATION SYSTEM LOYALISTS SLAVES 050615 %SEEK AVOID RISK EMBARRASS MISTAKE LEARN CHALLENGE 050615 %THINK RESPOND NEW SITUATION CONTEXT REACT EXPLORE 050615 %FEELINGS EMOTIONS TERRITORY GEOGRAPHY RELATIONS 050615 %DYSFUNCTIONAL EVIL INTIMACY SEXUALITY NUANCE GODS 050615 %FUNDAMENTAL THEOLOGY BIBLE SCRIPT LAWS COMMAND 050615 "Authoritarians" are people who usually: 1. Seek-to-Avoid: risk, embarrassments and mistakes, thinking and learning --- which might challenge their Fixed-Ways of: "thinking", and "responding" to Fundamentally-New: situations, contexts, ethical-dilemmas and moral-tragedies. 2. React-Thoughtlessly to Fundamentally-New: situations, contexts, ethical-dilemmas and moral-tragedies --- rather than Take-the-Risks of exploring their nuances in well- informed-ways which are based upon careful research of all available reliable knowledge. 3. Trust other "Authoritarians" whom they regard as being of Their-Own-Kind --- in terms of the above characteristics --- and in terms of being Loyal- Domineering-Servants of "The-Domination-System" and its system of "Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception". 4. Are Impatient-and-Intolerant of people who are Impartial-and-Not-Biased; who are Not-Loyal-Supporters of Whatever-They-Themselves-Support; who are not Yes-Men like They-Themselves are. 5. Are not Truly-Authors of NEW: Insights, Views, Perspectives, Understandings, Articulations, Values, Ideals, Principles, Hypotheses, Proven-Theories, etc. 6. Cannot-Learn-From people who ARE Truly-Authors of NEW: Insights, Views, Perspectives, Understandings, Articulations, Values, Ideals, Principles, Hypotheses, Proven-Theories, etc. 7. Are Frozen-Developmentally as regards normal Stages- of-Growth, Stages-of-Life, Stages-of-Love and Stages-of- Faith; as articulated with authors like James Fowler in his book "Stages of Faith". 8. Have not moved beyond: Concrete-Operational-Thoughts, Thoughtless-Rituals, Self-Centeredness, Narcissism, Mandatory-Conformity, Mob-Psychologies, etc. 9. Welcome Dictatorial-Rulers who lift from their shoulders the Risks-and-Burdens of trying to move beyond being "Authoritarians" who are "Thoughtless-Trusters". 10. Are terrified by Fundamental-Changes in existing World-Views and become Destructive-Terrorists who are "Hell-Bent" on Preventing-Fundamental-Changes in their own Existing-World-Views as "Fundamentalists" who recite thoughtless "Fundamentals-from-the-Past". (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in "Search for Honesty and Integrity" (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================