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            %LACK PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITY 980510      
                                                                                                                               
     We  lack personal and communal integrity so  long  as                                                                
we:                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                               
     1.  Are   involved   in   enduring   coercive/violent           
conflicts with each other and/or within our selves.                             
                                                                                                                               
     2.  Cannot fully trust  each  other  in the making of                                                               
complementary affirmations.                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                               
     3.  Cannot  fully trust each other in the sharing  of                                                               
open   and   honest  descriptions  of  our  own   personal                   
experiences, beliefs, hopes, fears and aspirations.             
                                                                                                                               
     4.  Are more  concerned with our appearances --- than                               
with our personal and  communal integrity in being true to                        
ourselves and each other.                                                            
                                                                                                                               
     5.  Do not recognize the differences between dilemmas                                     
in our personal relationships --- and technical problems.                                                  
                                                                                                                               
     6.  Believe  that  we can  prevent/control  tragedies             
through technical manipulations and controls.                                
                                                                                                                               
     7.  Regard good and evil as attributes of  individual                                 
isolated  people  --- rather   than   as   attributes   of                                                                    
relationships between/among persons/communities.                                                              
                                                                                                                               
     8.  Regard blame,   shame,  guilt,  condemnation  and                                 
exclusion --- as manipulative tools which can be  used  in                       
integrative ways which are worthy of respect and support.      
                                                                                                                               
     9.  Regard excommunication of  evil people and/or our                                 
enemies --- as an effective  tool  for  dealing  with  the                                                                     
behaviors  of those whom we do not understand,  respect or                                      
trust.                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                               
     10. Fail  to  learn from our mistakes  and  from  the                                                            
mistakes  of those other persons who most  influence  our:                                                            
emotions, thoughts,  attitudes, fears, hopes, aspirations,                                                                     
beliefs, convictions, decisions, and actions.             
                                                                                                                               
     11. Waste our energy, time and available resources in                                                            
trying  to  control  each  other  and/or   those   natural   
processes which we cannot ever control.              
                                                                                                                               
     12. Play collusive games of mutual self-deception --- 
while  denying  the  existence of those games and  of  the                                                                     
tacit    rules   which   govern   our   dishonest   plays,                                                            
pretentiousness, arrogance and self-righteousness.       
                                                                                                                               
     13. Go  to  unbalanced extremes in our efforts to  be                                                            
better,  more righteous and successfully dominant --- than       
are others who we do not truly know, understand or trust.                                                    
                                                                                                                               
     14. Fail  to  honor  and  respect  people  who   work                                      
effectively/honestly in efforts to promote mutual/balanced                            
understanding, reconciliation and conflict-resolution.                                              
                                                                                                                               
     15. Are  not  distressed  by  the  fragmentation  and                                                                     
disintegration  engendered  by  our  continuing   coercive                                                            
and/or violent conflicts with others.           
                                                                                                                               
     16. Pretend   not  to  lack  personal  and   communal                                                                
integrity under the above circumstances.                                                    
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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