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 %PROSPER SUCCESS JOY SATISFACTION COMFORT PLEASURE 980626                                                                     
                                                                                                                               
     Communities  which  openly and deliberately  work  to                                                                
find ways to resolve conflicts and cooperate in fulfilling      
mutually understood and articulated ideas, ideals,  values                            
and  principles  ---   are more  prosperous,   successful,                                                                     
joyful, satisfied, comforted and full of pleasure --- than                                                                     
are:                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                               
     Communities which play collusive games of mutual self                            
deception   regarding   their   exaggerated   differences, 
conflicts,  and disagreements --- making obvious that they                                              
are  far  more  concerned  with  maintaining  their  self-                               
righteousness,  arrogance and conflicts ---  that they are       
concerned  with  communal  prosperity,   successes,   joy,                               
satisfaction   and   comforts.   Dysfunctional communities                                                                
often engage in collusive  games  of mutual self-deception 
---  pretending that they are not, what they are: and that                                                                     
they are, what they are not.                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                               
     Communities which play collusive games of mutual self                            
deception cannot: 
                                                                                                                               
     1.  Learn from their own or their enemies'  mistakes;                   
for   the  mistakes  are  concealed  by  their   collusive                               
dishonesty.                                                                  
                                                                                                                               
     2.  Deal  with  environmental  changes --- because of                          
collusive  convictions  that  all  that  is  important  is                                                   
eternal; thus dealing with change is not important.                                                                            
                                                                                                                               
     3.  Understand  how  different  languages  articulate                                     
common   truths   in   ways  which  threaten   their   own      
collusions.                                                   
                                                                                                                               
     4.  Come to mutual understandings which transcend the                            
differences  in  the  ways in  which  different  languages      
communicate common truths which threaten collusions.                                                   
                                                                                                                               
     5.  Enjoy  the fruits of creative people who  develop                         
new ways  of  cooperating  with  different people ---  who      
challenge conventional/traditional wisdom and skepticism.                                                                      
                                                                                                                               
     6.  Cooperate  in  successful  common  ventures  with                                                                     
different people whom they have demonized because of their                          
complementary ideas, ideals, values and principles.                                         
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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