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 %COMPETITION COOPERATION COMPLEMENTARY CONTENTIOUS+020106
  %ENEMY FRIEND GOOD DEVIL SINNER JUDGEMENT CONDEMN+020106
   %RECOGNIZE ACKNOWLEDGE DESCRIBE PERCEIVE DISCERN+020106
  %KNOWLEDGE INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS TRUST RISK LOVE+020106
   %GRACE CONFLICT RESOLUTION PEACEMAKING CONFLICTS+020106
   %DISINTEGRATION TERRORISM WAR MILITARISM DESTROY 020106
                                                          
     Complementary people might cooperate productively    
       with each other, but are far too often in          
         alienative competition with each other           
           over who will coercively dominate whom,        
             over who will be in control of whom else.    
                                                          
     Disintegrative competition between complementary     
       kinds of people who are not kind to each other;    
         undermine the integrities of the people          
           and the integrities of their communities.      
                                                          
     How might such complementary people learn to         
       synthesize their complementary and competitive     
         natures into some coherent whole patterns?       
                                                          
     Athletic competitions do entail teams which do       
       cooperate with each other, under mutually agreed   
         to rules --- to compete with each other team;    
           while within the respective teams the members  
             of the competing teams cooperate with each   
               other member of their own team; and vast   
                 crowds of bystanding spectators cheer    
                   on the competitive teams --- and       
                     mutually-agreed-to referees make     
                       sure that the teams and their      
                         respective members do compete    
                           in keeping with the mutually   
                             agreed upon rules.           
                                                          
     Athletic competitions do channel much human time and 
       energy into non-destructive efforts --- most of    
         the time at least.  How much more might be       
           accomplished if equal amounts of time and      
             energy --- were channeled into               
               comprehensively-cooperative-efforts        
                 to achieve agreed-upon-goals and         
                   cooperative-relationships among all of 
                     the people involved in the efforts?  
                                                          
     How can we learn to COOPERATE with COMPLEMENTARY     
       kinds-of-people in kind-new-ways which are         
         integrative --- rather than dis-integrative;     
           because "different" people are seen as beings  
             who are COMPLEMENTARY rather than as:        
               CONTESTANTS who are CONTENTIOUSLY in       
                 CONFLICT over who will DOMINATE as       
                   servants of THE DOMINATION SYSTEM.     
                                                          
     How can we transform senseless-and-disintegrative-   
       competition over-being-dominant -- into integrative
         cooperation within-civil-relationships designed  
           to civilize-human-tendencies-to-compete for    
             positions-of-dominance over vulnerable       
               members of the whole community?            
                                                          
     How can we learn to recognize "different" people who 
       might be complementary-people-cooperating-with-us  
         in doing what both-we-and-they-need-to-do        
           together-for-our-mutual-integration/benefit?   
                                                          
     How can we focus more upon the words on the right    
       below, and what they point to; than we focus upon  
         the words on the left, and what they point to?   
                                                          
     CONTEND                   COMPLEMENT                 
                                                          
     COERCE                    COMPLIMENT                 
                                                          
     COMPETE                   COOPERATE                  
                                                          
     CONDEMN                   CIVILIZE                   
                                                          
     COMPEL                    COMPLETE                   
                                                          
     CONSTRAIN                 CO-EXIST                   
                                                          
     CONTEST                   COLLABORATE                
                                                          
     CENSURE                   CULTURE                    
                                                          
     CRUSH                     CONSUMMATE                 
                                                          
     CRITICIZE                 COMMUNE                    
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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