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   %DYSFUNCTIONAL MEANINGLESS INSIGNIFICANT RITUALS 051204
 %REALMS LIFE LIVES INSURE BALANCE MAINTAIN AUGMENT 051204
 %PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITY COHERENCE COOPERATION 051204
 %FAMILY TRIBE SCHOOL HIGHER EDUCATION RELIGION SEX 051204
%SPIRIT WORK VOCATION FRIEND INTIMACY SCIENCE KNOWN 051204
%FUNDAMENTAL ESSENTIAL FOUNDATION GROUND BEING GOOD 051204

     There are many Realms-of-Life, and each Realm-of-Life
has   rituals  which  help  to  insure   that  Balance-is-
Maintained as regards that Realm-of-Life;  e.g.,   family,
tribe,  school, higher-education, religion,  spirituality,
work,   vocation,  friendships,   intimacies,   sexuality,
science,  engineering, politics,  travel,  communications,
etc.

         Rituals-are-Dysfunctional whenever:

     1.  Needed-Rituals are Weak-or-Absent.
     2.  Rituals fail to insure Distributive-Justice.
     3.  Rituals fail to affirm Essential-Virtues.
     4.  Rituals affirm mutually-exclusive extremism.
     5.  Rituals concentrate power and/or wealth.
     6.  Rituals concentrate on Negations-and-Destruction.
     7.  Rituals augment Controls-and-Domination.
     8.  Rituals augment Alienation-and-Excommunications.
     9.  Rituals augment Terror, Terrorism, Terrorists.
    10.  Rituals augment Military-Industrial-Complexes.
    11.  Rituals augment Addictions-and-Codependencies.
    12.  Rituals are Insignificant-Meaningless-Traditions.

         Rituals may, and may not, involve:

     1.  Few, or many, people.
     2.  Private, or public, gatherings.
     3.  Formal, or spontaneous, creations.
     4.  Declarations of Dominance, Control, Submission.
     5.  Long-Standing-Traditions or Habits.
     6.  Song, Dance, Rhythm, Doctrines, Confessions.
     7.  Friendships, Intimacies, Sexuality.
     8.  Objectivity, Reflexivity, Subjectivity, Prayer.
     9.  Recitations, Motion, Motions, Standing, Sitting.
    10.  Athletic-Competitions, Political-Competitions.
    11.  Religious-Competitions, Rules, Regulations.
    12.  Commandments, Prescriptions, Proscriptions.
    13.  Collusions, Cooperation, Collaboration, Coherence
    14.  Integrations, Dis-Integrations, Violence, Aliens.
    15.  International-Military-Industrial-Complexes.
    16.  International-Economic-Hit-Men and Assignations.
    17.  Global Concentrations of Powers and Wealth.
    18.  Empathy, Sympathy,  Ministry, Healing, Learning.
    19.  Growth, Evolutions, Adaptations, Adjustments.
    20.  Faith, Hope, Love, Trust, Risks, Sharing, Gifts.

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


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