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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9009111.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.} ========================================================== %VALID QUESTION ASSUMPTION TRANSCEND TABOO ATTITUDE 900911 It is futile to be preoccupied with questions which are framed within the context of tragically misleading beliefs, assumptions, convictions and taboos. All answers to such questions are likely to contribute to the undermining of personal and communal integrity; especially if the answers are viewed as fixes with which to still the troubling questions. Many alcoholics are preoccupied with the question of what kinds of alcoholic beverages they may safely consume and still avoid alcoholic problems: or at what times of day, or in what mixtures, or in what kind of company, or etc. All such questions are asked in the context of the tragic belief that by finding the answers to them it will be possible for the alcoholic to properly control the use of alcoholic fixes for what ails them. Many addicts are preoccupied with the questions of how to go about quieting/quitting their preoccupation with their addictive substance/activity of choice. Their questions focus upon relationships which pertain to the substance/activity of addictive choice. They are preoccupied with asking technical questions which focus on their addictive preoccupations. Even their questions are symptoms of their addiction. Such questions are asked in the context of the tragic belief that by finding the answers to technical questions, it will be possible to control their preoccupations. Many questions are asked in a desire to find explicit verbal statements which will fix the questions; i.e., the explicit verbal statements are expected to serve to still the preoccupation with the questions. Searching for explicit verbal statements with which to fix such preoccupations is an addictive activity. We may become preoccupied with formulating and answering technical questions pertaining to the contexts within which we engage in addictive behaviors. It is probably impossible to find an explicit verbal statement which will serve as a fix for the misleading tragic assumptions which form the context for such preoccupations. The way out of such reflexive prisons may lie in exemplary behavior on the part of people who demonstrate personal and communal integrity. Such people may not be able to formulate explicit verbal questions and/or fix-it answers; and yet by example they may show how to transcend the preoccupations which trouble many addicts and their codependents. There is a danger, however, that those people who are trapped in preoccupations with fix-it technologies will regard such strange exemplary people as being in violation of sacred taboos, showing disrespect for collusive truths, failing to be adequately knowledgeable or technically sophisticated, etc. Such addicts need to consider the fruits of alternative people's life styles, and make informed wise judgments based upon how sweet or bitter such fruits are. Addicts will do well to become sympathetically familiar with the attitudes and life styles of people whose lives bear sweet fruit, rather than spend most of their time in the presence of and copying the attitudes and life styles of people whose lives bear bitter fruit. Integrative exemplars as individuals have much to offer to addicts and codependents, and exemplars working communally have even more to offer than they do as isolated individuals. Where two or three creative exemplars are gathered together in the spirit of love, there integrity is better served than when exemplars remain isolated from each other. This is why some addicts seek to exercise control over the behavior of creative non-conformists; for addicts fear that creative non- conformist exemplars through their integrative work will undermine the respectability of addicts' programs for fixing what is wrong in the world. The sweet fruits of the works of exemplars in Love flow from secure, open and honest communications; not from effective systematic controls. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================