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%PREVENT HARM DAMAGE EVIL DISINTEGRATE CONTROL SINS+980820                                       
%ADDICTION CRIME DISCIPLINE WAR TERROR FEAR DISEASE+980820                                                
  %ABUSE COSTLY PRIORITY EVIL WRONG DEATH SUFFERING 980820                                       
                                                                                                                               
     It is human to try to prevent that which humans fear,                                            
suffer from,  and which undermines human integrity.     We                                            
are prone to think well of ourselves for how  diligent  we                                               
are in our prevention efforts ---  and for the great harms                                                            
which we work to mitigate.  It is difficult, however,   to                                               
recognize  the  great costs  which people bear because  of                          
our  fanatical,    compulsive,   and addictive efforts  to                                                
control that  which we cannot control  ---    and  because                          
of   the  excessive    pride  which  we   take   in    our                                                            
fanaticism, compulsions and addictions.                                                
                                                                                                                               
     The   roots  of what we fear---are often to be  found                                                                     
in  each   other's compulsive,   fanatical  and  addictive                                                
efforts to prevent that which we fear.     We fear to  let                                                                     
go of our fears,  compulsions,  fanaticisms and addictions                                                
---     and harvest even more of  them,   because  of  our                          
fears.    We often believe  that because of the fruits  of             
our fears ---    our fears  were  justified.    Because of                          
our fears ---  we  cannot recognize  the  collusions which                                                   
blind  us  to what  we  are doing to ourselves and to each                                                            
other.                                                               
                                                                                                                               
     We  will  do well and be well when  we  make  prudent                                                                     
cooperative efforts to assess  the costs of our efforts to                                                            
prevent  what we fear ---  and do not take great pride  in                                                                     
our  efforts  to control what we  cannot  control.     Our                                                           
preoccupations  with  issues  of  control  do  not   merit                                                           
respect,  honor or support.   We need to learn the ways of      
Love,  Charity,  Gentleness,  Forgiveness, and Peacemaking                                           
--- if we are to learn what is the meaning of Shalom.                                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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