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Defending One’s Self

DEFENDING SELF EACH PERSON WANTS HIS OR HER WORTHINESS VALUED IF IT IS NOT VALUED, THEN THE PERSON FEELS SHAME WHEN A PERSON FEELS SHAME, THAT PERSON DEFENDS SELF BY EMPLOYING A SAFEGUARDING ROLE AND A DISTRACTING RITUAL AND, IF … Continue reading

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ABILITY: Safeguarding Roles and Distracting Rituals

The above is a frame of coordinates with column factors that intersect with row factors resulting in INTERSECTION variants.  Each variant is unique. Thus, consider intersection 1A, Diplomatic Preempting. Note how different it is from, say, intersection 4A, Diplomatic Accommodating, … Continue reading

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Distracting Rituals

DISTRACTING RITUALS Anthropologist James Frazer claimed that myth emerges out of ritual during the evolution of religions. In his twelve volumes of The Golden Bough Frazer argues that man progresses from the rituals based on magic, through belief in deities, … Continue reading

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