This is http://www.essayz.com/b0102202.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.} ========================================================== %REAL TRUE THREATS PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITY EVIL+010220 %ATTACK DOMINATION SYSTEM HONOR RESPECT SUPPORT SIN+010220 %OVERT COVERT EXPLICIT TACIT CLAIMS HARMED HURT GOD+010220 %BLAME SHAME GUILT PUNISH REJECT EXCLUDE EXCLUSIVE+010220 %VIOLENCE VIOLATION DISHONESTY ADDICTION COLLUSION+010220 %FALSE APPEARANCES ADVERTISING MANIPULATION SEDUCE 010220 REAL/TRUE THREATS are those which threaten the REAL/TRUE INTEGRITIES of realities which merit real/true: honor, respect and support. UNREAL/FALSE THREATS are those which threaten the APPEARANCES OF INTEGRITIES of unreal/false realities which do not merit any: honor, respect or support. When we are in the presence of overt, covert, explicit, and/or tacit claims that an integrity has been harmed, attacked, or is now being threatened --- we need to ask for a clarification of the NATURE OF THE REALITY and the NATURE OF ITS INTEGRITY. Stones, sticks, knives, arrows, poisons, swords, bullets, bombs, and missiles have been used to threaten and/or to disintegrate: humans, and their homes, families, possessions, neighborhoods, and cities. Through violence and threats-of-violence that which was coherent and well integrated is forced to become incoherent; disintegrated. Such actions entail REAL/TRUE THREATS to REAL/TRUE INTEGRITIES. Violence entails the violation of a REAL/TRUE INTEGRITY. On the other hand: We need to become-aware-of, continue to be-aware-of, beware-of, and continue to beware-of realities which merely APPEAR TO DEMONSTRATE some INTEGRITY which ostensibly merits respect, honor, support, and protection. Appearances can be deceiving, and often are deceiving. Some people are in the business of manipulating and/or managing appearances --- so as to gain self-centered advantages through other people's misplaced: respect, honor, support and protection. Such manipulators and/or managers gain advantages at other people's expense. Such occasions of manipulations and/or management usually entail the presence of: DISHONESTY DECEPTION DECEIT ADDICTIONS CODEPENDENTS COLLUSIONS ALCOHOL DRUGS IMBALANCE EXTREMISTS FANATICS IDOLATRY INTOLERANCE CORRUPTION POWER-CONCENTRATED GREED ARROGANCE SELFISHNESS PARANOIA DIS-EASE SELF-CENTEREDNESS PERFECTIONISM JUDGEMENTALISM SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS In the presence of overt, covert, explicit, and/or tacit claims by people that an integrity has been harmed, attacked, or is now being threatened --- ask for a clarification of the NATURE OF THE REALITY and the NATURE OF ITS INTEGRITY --- and ask which of the above realities are indeed present in the deeds of those who make the claims that an integrity has indeed been harmed, attacked, or is now being threatened. False claims do not merit any respect, honor, support or protection. We need to be-aware-of and beware-of efforts of people who seek to blame, shame or guilt us --- because our personal and communal integrities are threats to the appearances of integrity which they overtly, covertly, tacitly and/or implicitly --- ask us to honor, respect, and support. If we yield to their efforts to blame, shame and/or guilt us --- because our personal and communal integrities are threats to the appearances of integrity which they overtly, covertly, tacitly and/or implicitly, ask us to honor, respect, and support --- we will disintegrate as persons and communities. In light of the above it is clear that we need to become-aware-of, name, describe, continue to be-aware-of, beware-of and continue to be-aware-of: 1. The SUPERFICIAL kinds of INTEGRITY which exist within unhealthy "communities"; e.g., those "INTEGRITIES" which are based upon and depend upon: conformity, group-think, coerced consensus, coerced tacit communications, entrenched traditions, concentrated power, domination systems, domineering leaders, addictive organizations, addictive religions, dysfunctional cosmologies/mythologies. 2. The PROFOUND kinds of INTEGRITY which exist within truly healthy communities; e.g., those INTEGRITIES which are based upon and promote/facilitate: creative cooperative work; prayer and meditation; the liberation of individual potentials and gifts; open and honest communications within sanctuaries given/created by people who know and enjoy security as the freedom to be safely vulnerable; learning from blunders, accidents, mistakes, and missed-communications; oscillating regularly between community-building and cooperative-task-work as suggested by Dr. Peck in his book "A New World Waiting to be Born." (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================