This is http://www.essayz.com/a9806041.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %RECOGNIZE PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITY MERIT TRUST+980604 %EXCOMMUNICATE ALIENATE DECEIVE MISLEAD THREATEN+980604 %VIOLATE ABUSE DOMINATE CONTROL CONFUSE SEDUCE SIN+980604 %ARROGANT LISTEN RESOLVE CONFLICT ACCEPTANCE EVILS 980604 We can recognize people who are fully committed to personal and communal integrity (who merit our respect, trust and support) because they: 1. Do not excommunicate/alienate anybody. 2. Do not deceive/mislead anybody. 3. Disintegrate/threaten anybody. 4. Violate/abuse anybody. 5. Dominate/control anybody. 6. Confuse/seduce anybody. 7. Treat anybody arrogantly or rudely. 8. Put anybody down in efforts to get ahead. 9. Exclude anybody over issues of control. 10. Are enthusiastic in balanced ways. 11. Accentuate the positive in all affirmations. 12. Are attentive and responsive listeners. 13. Seek to resolve conflicts among ideals/values. We can recognize people who are NOT committed to personal and communal integrity (who DO NOT merit our respect, trust and support) because they: 1. Regard excommunication and alienation as appropriate tools in achieving and maintaining appropriate control. 2. Regard deceptive and misleading behaviors as appropriate tools in achieving and maintain appropriate control. 3. Regard threats and actions which lead to the disintegration of persons and communities as necessary tools in achieving and maintaining appropriate control. 4. Violate and/or abuse people --- in order to promote their own welfare and/or cause. 5. Feel that they have a high calling, right, or privilege to dominate and/or control people who are "lesser" than they themselves are. 6. Confuse and/or seduce people into serving them and their collusive games of mutual self-deception. 7. Treat people arrogantly or rudely when it suits them and/or their purposes. 8. Put people down in efforts to get ahead --- or up the ladder of of success/achievements. 9. Exclude different people because of issues of control. 10. Are enthusiastic in un-balanced ways as extremists and/or fanatics. 11. Disagree with other people's affirmations as a way of advancing their own special interest or cause. 12. Are unwilling to reveal themselves or listen attentively to others. 13. Maintain and/or accentuate conflict among ideals, values, principles and people --- out of preoccupation with issues of control. The areas of such people's activities are varied: Political Religious Educational Professional Familial Business Sexual Scientific Militaristic Ethnic Racial Technological It is often not at all clear how their patterns of behaviors in the various areas are similar. Their disintegrative effects in some areas --- are much more obvious than in other areas --- where the disintegrative effects are more effectively hidden and so are not recognized. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================