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%FALSE CONFESSION DOCTRINE STATEMENT REAL HARM DONE 050715
   %DOMINEERING RELIGIOUS LEADER INSTITUTION CHURCH 050715
%ARTIFICIAL CONSEQUENCE NATURAL OUTCOME FRUITS TREE 050715
%KNOWLEDGE WHO IS GOOD EVIL SAVED DAMMED FALLEN GOD 050715
%CONTEXT MEANING SIGNIFICANT BEING TRUE TRUTH TRULY 050715

     The  word "confession"  and its congnates mean  quite
different things depending upon the context in which it is
used; and so they mean different things depending upon who
uses  them.    Different  people  using  them   constitute
different contexts.

     1.  If  a person has actually harmed  another  person
without  the other person knowing who was responsible  for
the  harm,   the  person who did the actual  harm  may  be
gracious and confess that they did the harm.   That is one
meaning  of  "confess".     The person who offers  such  a
confession  demonstrates  personal integrity and helps  to
facilitate and promote communal integrity.

     2.  If   a   person   has  Failed-to-Conform   to   a
Domineering-Person's or  a Domineering-Group's "Standards-
of-Propriety",   and The-Authorities have been unaware  of
the So-Far-Secret Failure-to-Conform,  the person who  has
Failed-to-Conform  may  be  submissive and  confess  their
Failure-to-Conform.      Such  a  "confession"   is  quite
different from the voluntary confession of the one who had
done  actual  harm.   This latter confession is  hardly  a
demonstration of personal integrity and in reality it  may
help Domineering-People under the guidance and motivations
of "The Domination System"  to undermine both personal and
communal forms of integrity.

     3.  When  a person publically states and demonstrates
the virtues,  truths,  ideals and values which they regard
as being of great importance and of high priority --- they
thereby  make a "confession"  which demonstrates  personal
integrity  and  helps to facilitate and build up  communal
integrity.   Here the word "confess"  is being used in yet
a third way, a way which has integrity.

     4.  When  a  person  publically  recites  as  true  a
standard doctrinal "confession" of a domineering religious
institution  ---   even  though they  do  not  regard  the
"confession"   as  meaningfully  true   ---   the   person
demonstrates a lack of personal integrity in pretending to
believe what they in fact do not believe in any meaningful
sense.     The  recitation  is an  act  of  submission  to
domineering   people  who  undermind  both  personal   and
communal integrities.  Here the word "confession"  is used
in  a  way which lacks integrity because dishonesty is  an
integral part of the process of "confession".

     5.  When  any  person who is truly innocent  makes  a
false  confession of having done something which they have
in  fact not done ---  because of threats  made  regarding
those  near and dear to him or her ---   the  "confession"
lacks integrity;  and to term the action as a "confession"
within  the context of suspected threats;  is an act which
lacks integrity.   This  is a false recitation,  yet it is
different  from the false recitation of a formal doctrinal
statement of "confession"  of something which is not truly
owned by the "confessor".

                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                    (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)

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