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  %VIOLENT CONFLICT ROOT ASSIGN MEANING SYMBOL WORD+930301
   %RESOLVE DIFFERENCE SIGNIFICANCE ACTION BEHAVIOR 930301

     Many  of  our  conflicts and much of our violence  is
rooted in the human ability to arbitrarily assign  meaning
and significance to symbols,  words, signs,  decisions and
actions;   different people making different  assignments.
Different   assignments   may   be  made   in   ignorance,
indifference,   arrogance or conflict---and engender  much
conflict and violence thereby.  We need to understand  how
such  assignments engender many of our conflicts and  much
of our violence.

     If  we  are ignorant of the differences  between  our
arbitrary  assignments  of  meaning  and  significance  to
symbols, words, signs,  decisions and actions---we may not
be   able   to  communicate  clearly  and  are  likely  to
misunderstand  each other;  and so to experience  conflict
and violence.

     If our different assignments occur  in  indifference,
arrogance or conflict;  therein we accentuate the conflict
and violence which already exists.

     To  transcend our conflicts and violence we  need  to
look for the roots of them in our different assignments of
meaning  and  significance  to  symbols,   words,   signs,
decisions  and  actions.   While  all  the  roots  of  our
conflicts and violence may not lie therein;  many of  them
do,   and we will do well to be informed of where they  do
lie, and be honest about what our situation is.

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