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%COERCION MANIPULATION VIOLENT VIOLENCE WAR TERROR+991121
%CHRISTIAN ROMAN ARMY BELIEF COLLUSIVE SYSTEM EVIL+991121
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Throughout human history there have been conflicts
between: tribes, nations, belief systems, races,
religions, paradigms, ethnic groups, etc. In each
conflict various questions have in effect been asked:
1. Who will be dominant and/or dominate --- and how?
2. Who will generate profound changes --- and how?
3. Who will preserve advantages --- and how?
4. Who will capture/gain advantages --- and how?
5. Who will SUBvert dominant SYSTEMS --- and how?
6. Who will SUBvert dominant PEOPLE --- and how?
7. Who will CONvert dominant SYSTEMS --- and how?
8. Who will CONvert dominant PEOPLE --- and how?
9. Will collusions or honesty win in the end?
10. Will addictions or health win in the end?
11. Will violence or cooperation win in the end?
12. Will authority or creativity win in the end?
13. Will legalities or grace win in the end?
14. Will dichotomies or integration win in the end?
15. Who will be creative and/or destructive leaders?
16. Who is honored and respected in healthy ways?
17. Who is honored and respected in unhealthy ways?
18. Who creates and uses power in healthy ways?
19. Who creates and abuses power in unhealthy ways?
20. What will be remembered, and what be forgotten?
21. Who will be remembered, and who be forgotten?
21. What ideas/ideals will be clarified/remembered?
22. What ideas/ideals will be confused/forgotten?
23. What ideas/ideals will be perverted/converted?
24. What ideas/ideals will be abused/enslaved?
Histories tend to be written by the dominant
survivors --- who often fail to give accurate accounts of:
the lives, views, ideas, ideals, perspectives, beliefs,
integrities, and life styles --- of those who were
dominated, oppressed, vanquished, destroyed, misunder-
stood, reviled, etc. It is often hard to discern with
any real degree of reliability the truth about
participants in ancient conflicts --- or about the real
nature of the roots of the conflicts.
Sometimes small minorities learn how to deal with
oppressive people without becoming oppressive people
themselves. Some minorities learn to subvert and
convert the world-view/paradigm of oppressive people;
surprise them, and liberate them from their collusive
games of violent mutual self deception. Some people
transcend oppressive people's preoccupations with issues
of control --- and help such people become people who
learn to cooperate with each other --- and with those
peoples whom they have oppressed as being beneath them.
In his book "The Powers That Be" Walter Wink
suggests that the very early Christians were such a
gracious minority people --- before the Christian religion
was itself subverted and became the state religion
exercising oppressive powers and dispositions.
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