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    %BEING CONFLICT RESOLUTION GROUND GOD INTEGRITY 870417

     Considering   the  amount  of  coherent  behavior  in
evidence in the universe, it does not  make coherent sense
to  believe  and  act as if the  ground  of  being  is  in
essential  conflict  over  the nature of  its  being  with
integrity.    If  being  lacks  integrity we  can  not  be
ourselves  with integrity.   If we assume that the essence
of being is to be in conflict,  we are bound then to be in
conflict  with ourselves and with each other whom we  find
willing to play  our game of mutual self deception.  It is
then our duty to be in conflict, and it is treason to seek
conflict resolution with  our  enemy.    If the essence of
being  is to  be  in conflict,  then it is essential  that
every  part  of  being  be in conflict  with  every  other
separated part of being.

     It follows therefore,  that members of a  conflicting
society must not trust each other.  They must use a secret
police  to  spy  upon  each  other  of  their  essentially
conflicting  society.   In such a society there can be  no
ground for both personal and communal integrity.  Everyone
must be suspicious.

     If  the ground of being lacks integrity no being  can
have integrity.

     There is an alternative.

     If the  ground of being is personal with personal and
communal integrity,  then it is possible for all beings to
participate  in  being  with both  personal  and  communal
integrity.

     The  difference between the two conceptions of  being
makes  all  the difference.   Being in one  way  leads  to
disintegration.     Being  in  the  other  way  leads   to
integrity.    In  one way of being, integrity  can  not be
achieved.  In  the  other way of being, integrity  is  not
achieved;   it  is accepted as the ground  of  being  with
integrity.   Being with integrity comes naturally if it is
accepted as the ground of being.   Being with integrity is
resisted as a threat to achieving integrity, if  integrity
is not accepted as the ground of being.

     People  who  believe  in the importance of  being  in
control  can  not  be with integrity,   because  being  in
control   undermines  personal  and  communal   integrity.
Integrity  can not be controlled.   People with  integrity
can not be controlled.   Communities with integrity do not
respect people who seek to be in control.

     Being  with  personal and communal integrity  is  the
essence of peace and security.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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