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   %DEFEND PROTECT INOCULATE SECURE SAFE SHIELD BAR+931229
  %AGAINST MADNESS INSANITY RAGE VIOLENCE FEAR EVIL+931229
%ADDICTION COLLUSION ALIENATION REVENGE FUNDAMENTAL+931229
   %INTEGRATE IDEAL VALUE COERCION FANATIC VIOLENCE 931229

     How are we to protect ourselves against all that  may
cause   the   disintegration   of  our  selves   and   our
communities, without in the process having our efforts and
methods  be  the  immediate cause of the disintegration of
our selves and our communities?

     Being defensive can occasion fears and  defensiveness
in   the   other  people  whom we  need  to  cultivate  as
friends,   and whose cooperation we  need  if we are to be
people and communities of integrity.

     Being protective of  what we value  in exclusive ways
can  similarly  occasion fears and  defensiveness  in  the
other  people  whom  we need to cultivate as  friends  and
whose  cooperation  we  need if we are to  be  people  and
communities of integrity.

     Seeking  to  achieve security for  ourselves  at  the
expense of others and the security of others---can lead to
more  of the madness,  insanity and alienation which we so
fear.

     Letting our  resentments,   anger,  rage,   fears and
alienations  lead  us  to try to  even  the  score through
revenge  as a self centered form of "justice"---will  lead
us   to   escalate  the  very  forms  of   violence    and
disintegration  which occasioned our resentment,    anger,
rage,  fear  and alienation.

     The many religious,   ethnic,  national,  capitalist,
communist,   fascist  and  dictatorial  wars  of   history
illustrate  the futility of all of our  human  efforts  to
unilaterally  defend,  protect and make secure that  which
some  humans  have  regarded as of  such  great  value  to
themselves---as   to   serve as the    justification   for
the  sacrifice    of   others   people's   personal    and
communal  security and integrity.    The ideals,   values,
attitudes,  assumptions,    beliefs and convictions  which
lead  us   into such inhumane efforts are  misleading  and
disintegrative  in  tragic ways.    We must learn  how  to
transcend such ideals,  values,   attitudes,  assumptions,
beliefs  and convictions;  no matter how much  we  believe
them to be of divine origin.

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