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%DIVERSIONARY WARNINGS ACCUSATIONS DANGERS WOLF CRY+980820                                                                     
%COLLUSIONS PROTECTIONS CONCEALMENTS MISLEADING SIN 980820                               
                                                                                                                               
     We  need to be aware that often we may be  misled  by                 
diversionary    warnings,    accusations   and   suggested                                                                     
priorities  ---  and beware of them and those  people  who                                                                    
encourage us to be preoccupied with diversionary warnings.                                                            
The  people  who  encourage  us  to  be  preoccupied  with                                                            
diversionary warnings ---  may  not  be   aware  that  the                                                                     
warnings,    accusations  and  suggested   priorities  are                                                                     
diversionary   ---   rather than authentic,     real   and                                                                     
reliable.    Instead,  the people may  be  participants in                           
thoughtless collusive games of mutual self deception which 
conceal how diversionary they are.                               
                                                                                                                               
     People    who  are  preoccupied  with:   issues    of                                                                    
control,    self   righteousness,     and   inter-personal       
comparisons --- are UNLIKELY  to   lead  us  in ways which      
are:     wise,   gracious,   gentle,     peaceful,     and                                                                     
integrative   of people    and  communities.     They  are                                                                
unlikely   to  comprehend  the meaning or the  reality  of                                                                     
shalom ---   and not be able to recognize shalom even when                                                                     
those who know it point to it as well  as they can.                                                                            
                                                                                                                               
     Diversionary  warnings tend to lead us to ignore  the                                                                     
more serious and important dangers of life;  those aspects                                                                     
of  people,  ideals,  values,   principles,   communities,                                         
ideologies --- which lead us tragically toward alienation,                                        
estrangements,    excommunications,    arrogance,    self-                                                      
righteousness,    exclusivity,   rejections,   collusions,       
addictions,     codependency,     coercion, manipulations,                                                
violence  and war.     If we are ignoring the latter,   we           
are probably being misled by diversionary warnings.                                                             
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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