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  %ADMONISH PEACEMAKER CONFLICT RESOLVE PREPARE WAR+960904
   %COVENANT INTIMATE SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS ARROGANT+960904
   %MACHO MILITARISTIC MENTALITY ADDICTIVE CODEPEND+960904
 %CONFESS FORGIVENESS RECOVERY LETTING GO LOVED SIN 960904

     We have been admonished to be peacemakers.   How  are
we  to  be peacemakers?   By focusing  upon  what  ideals,
values, principles, ideas, paradigm?

     Macho militaristic men for countless  centuries  have
focused upon trying to be in control.  The consequence has
been  the  slaughter  of countless millions of  women  and
children  who  just  happened  to be in the way  of  their
collusive games of mutual self deception.

     Self righteous religious men  for countless centuries
have focused arrogantly  upon  their own righteousness and
their duty to get others to conform to their chosen way of
perceiving  and responding.  The consequence has been  the
violent  subjugation  of countless millions of  women  and
children  who  just  happened to be  in the  way  of their
collusive games of mutual self deception.

     Self confident  technocrats for  countless  centuries
have focused in certain ways upon improving techniques for
understanding,   manipulating  and controlling:  inanimate
objects,  sub-human creatures, inferior humans,  imperfect
humans,   misguided  humans,  confused humans,   and  evil
humans.    The consequence has been the escalation of  the
level  of  violence which has disintegrated the  lives  of
men, women and children who just happened to be in the way
of their collusive games of mutual self deception.

     If we are to be peacemakers we must recognize,  name,
describe  and talk openly and  publicly  about  the  above
patterns  of  disintegrative  manipulation,  coercion  and
violence---and  trace  those  patterns to their  roots  in
disintegrative  "high"   ideals,  values,  principles  and
paradigms  which continue to be respected in spite of  all
that they have lead humans into.

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