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  %ABOVE ABUSE IGNORE NATURAL DESCRIBE LAW DOMINATE 050722
%MERIT REVERENCE HONOR VIRTUE VICE FALLEN POWERS BE 050722
%LEGAL DEFINED RIGHT WRONG WAY SHALOM EXPERIENCE ID 050722
%BITTER FRUIT TREE KNOWLEDGE WHO PERSON EVIL MORALS 050722
%NEIGHBOR RELATION REAL BASIC HUMANE NEED DESIRE IT 050722
 %AUTHORITY AUTHENTIC WILLING SERVICE HUMILITY HOLY 050722

     It  is often noted that nobody should be  "above-the-
law". Yet domineering people often "dominate-the-law"  and
"make-the-law" something which does not merit-reverence.

     When "The-Law" does not merit-reverence, what is left
to  restrain  (a) domineering-people  who  do  not  merit-
reverence  and/or (b)  "The Domination-System"  which does
not merit-reverence?

     The  virtues which do-merit-reverence are not defined
by formal law; i.e., by The-Law of Domineering-People.  We
may  speak-truth-to-fallen-powers by pointing to The-True-
Virtues which transcend The-Fallen-Powers-That-Be.  We may
do this by describing in our own words our own experiences
of The-True-Virtues; and  their  Corresponding-Vices  with
their Bitter-Fruits; i.e., their alienative-consequences.

     Our   honest   descriptions  need   to   be   clearly
distinguished   from   willful-prescrptions and   willful-
proscriptions.     Honest  descriptions  point   to   what
transcends us and so to what we cannot control.   Willful-
proscriptions and willful-prescriptions are expressions of
our wills which  are  inherently ours; and at our pleasure
are   under  our  control.    Our-prescriptions  and  our-
proscriptions clearly do not transcend us.

     What     about    God's-Prescriptions    and    God's
Proscriptions?    Who is presumptious enought to  be  sure
that   they  know  what  God's-Prescriptions  and   God's-
Proscriptions are?   Let them declare who they are and let
others   honestly  describe  what  they  observe  in  such
declarations!

     True-Authority  does not reside in that  who  declare
that they Know-With-Certainty what God's-Prescrptions  and
God's-Proscriptions are.   True-Authority resides  instead
in the   honest-descriptions   of   humble-people's   own-
experiences.
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                    (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)

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