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%DOMINANT EXPECT DEMAND COMMAND GET STAND ISSUE SIN 050803
%TAKE POSSESSION GOOD WEALTH POWER CONCENTRATE EVIL 050803
 %RELATIONSHIPS REFLEXIVE OBJECTIVE SUBJECTIVE KNOW 050803
 %SEXUAL KNOWLEDGE INTIMACY VULNERABLE INVULNERABLE 050803
%SECURITY SAFETY SANCTUARY OPEN HONEST DIALOGUE GOD 050805
   %SUBMISSIVE FACT SCIENCE EVOLVE COMMUNITY HEALTH 050805

     Domineering  People  often expect/demand that  people
will  Take-a-Stand on each and every issue which  comes up
and  which  is  important  to  them,   explicitly   and/or
implicitly.   To fail to Take-a-Stand is explicitly and/or
implicitly to Challenge-their-Authority.

     All-Issues  are  treated  dichotomously.   We are  to
support them as  they have  Authoritatively-Taken-a-Stand.

     We dare Not-Be-Submissive;  and must Take-a-Stand ---
even  if  we do not have the facts,  have not studied  the
issue  from  more  than  one point of view,   and  do  not
understand   the   nature   of   the   conflicts   between
complementary values, ideals, principals, and people.

     We  must  be loyal supporters of those who have given
meaning to our lives; else we are likely to be:  rejected,
excommunicated, shunned, banished, excluded, etc.  Beware!

     Thinking  is suspect.   Doubt is suspect.    Lack  of
faith  is suspect.   Conformity is honored  and  rewarded.
Take note and behave wisely and prudently!

                       - - - - - - - - - - -

     The  challenge  is  to survive  behaving  wisely  and
prudently  ---  within communities which are dominated by
domineering-people who are loyal supporters of The-Fallen-
Powers-That-Be as described by Walter-Wink in his powerful
book "The Powers That Be".

     We cannot fight The-Powers-That-Be on their terms and
have much chance of surviving.   To survive with integrity
we must resist The-Powers-That-Be in ways which are  wide,
prudent, non-coercive, reconciling, integrative,  healthy,
honored, neighborly, and reverent.  That is not easy.   It
cannot  be done without a lot of thinking and  seeking  to
understand  people  in ways which  transcend  technocratic
objectivity.
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                    (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)


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