IPUT organised the «Exclusion Exercise Punishment Preventing Autotherapy» in a Roman Catholic chapel, in 1972. The dispatcher was sitting 8 hours/day for one week with a pail on his head. On the wall he displayed questions which visitors could put to him:

I. You can ask from the selfsentenced anything
and
II. You can ask the following:
– Are all life-styles immoral which exclude even one other human being?
– Can one form a community with another person without being free oneself?
– Is culture real purpose to make one conscious of the identity of one’s fate and history?
– Is it the most important thing to discover and realise what is needed by life?
– Is it true that those who bear the unbearable know nothing about life? Know nothing about that interdependence that is contained in life?
– Can he bear himself without us, or is everything hopeless?
– Can the blockade of the present be broken only by a new attitude?
– Is the realisation of the future in the present an acceleration of our lives?
– Because historical time applies to the totality and not to the individual, would you try to live the facts of the present and your future desolation simultaneously?
– Is this all to manifest difference and therefore there to activate a potentially different matter?
– Can the changeable also be unfinished? Is the unfinished to be changed? Is constancy: suffering? Is unfinishedness: suffering?
– Do you hope that you can make interdependence conscious by demonstrating that we are all at each other’s mercy?
– Does your action include the punishment?
– Does your punishment include the action?
– Is action a sin? Is punishment a sin?
– Is sin action?
– Is action punishment?
– What is a sin?
– Is that action the sin that causes suffering?
– Is that action the sin tha causes no change?
– Is there anything at all that you can call an action, would it not produce a change, and is its existence provided to decrease suffering?
– Are you punishing yourself because by selfpunishment you accept the punishment of selfpunishment and by this you release the punisher from the punishment that is not worthy of action: the sin?
– Do you feel particularly exposed because you can not see whom you are talking to?

(1969 – 1972)

(Source: IPUT – Tamás StAuby)

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