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       %COMPULSIVE PROGRAM AGENDA TENSION COMMUNITY+941206
   %VIOLENT REACTION TRIGGER GUN TERROR REVENGE WAR 941206

     The   differing  members  of  some  communities   are
programmed  with compulsive fear-full agendas which demand
that   upon  certain  provocations  they  react  violently
against  members of their community---with whom  they  are
not familiar,  whom they fear, and whom they resent.   The
community is wound up like a tight spring, ready to let go
with   the   explosive  energy   of   compulsive/fanatical
convictions.

     Communities  which  are not committed  to  sustaining
personal   and  communal  integrity  through  honesty  and
creative   conflict  resolution---are  vulnerable  to  the
terrors  of  fear-full  agendas  which demand the  use  of
coercive  and  violent  means---which  lead  naturally  to
personal and communal disintegration.

     People  in wise communities work during peace-time to
resolve  conflicts  through honesty and creative  conflict
resolution---to   thereby avoid  the terrors of  fear-full
agendas  which can be triggered by minor catastrophes  and
escalate into major wars.

     When energy has been concentrated in unstable ways in
the tensions  between  differing  members  of  a misunder-
standing community---there is a real danger of a  communal
explosion   being triggered.    Once a communal  explosion
has started, it is nearly impossible to stop the explosion
until  the  concentrated energy has been spent.    In  the
aftermath  of  a communal explosion there is bound  to  be
much resentment,  anger and frustration in the  survivors;
and  the  stage  is  set for  the  re-programming  of  the
survivors  and  their descendants to behave in terms of  a
similar  set of fear-full agendas which demand the use  of
coercive and violent means.

     The  above  tragic  sequences  of  events  have  been
demonstrated  in  many  parts of the world  for  centuries
among people who are committed to remembering and  nursing
the  pains  of  old wounds.   They are  not  committed  to
nurturing personal and communal  integrity through honesty
and creative conflict resolution.   They need to learn how
to GET TO YES by GETTING PAST NO in the manner of books by
Fisher and Ury.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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