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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8806151.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.} ========================================================== %ANXIETY FRUSTRATION ADDICTS REALITY DENIAL RITUALS 880615 Dishonest rituals designed to deny the reality of painful truths tend to generate anxiety, frustration, fear, tension, etc. The rituals are expensive in time, energy, money, honesty, etc; but are doomed to failure. The participants in the rituals hope that the rituals will succeed, but at some subconscious level participants know that they will fail, and are tense over their ambiguous state of perception. Dishonest rituals are used to deny the reality of birth, sexual desires, and death; because they point to human finitude. Dishonest rituals are used to deny the injustices of economic systems because they make people uncomfortable with the possibility of the collapse of the economic system which is unjust. Dishonest rituals are used to deny the limitations of human knowledge and power, because most humans are not free to be vulnerable in secure contexts. Dishonest rituals of money spending are used by spendaholic addicts to deny the reality of their desperate condition, and thereby make their conditions more desperate. Similarly smokers, over eaters, alcoholics, gamblers, workaholics, sexaholics and other forms of addicts use their own peculiar rituals to try to deny or conceal the truth of their conditions. Militarists use militaristic exercises to try to deny the truth of their vulnerability and defensiveness; and their lack of security. Their rituals do not increase their security; they merely try to deny the reality of their insecurity. Defensive rituals declare insecurity, they do not eliminate insecurity; even though the ostensible purpose of the rituals is to eliminate insecurity. Security is the freedom to be vulnerable, and cannot be achieved by any form of defensive maneuvers no matter how scientific, technical and potentially destructive are the means of the defensive maneuvers. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================