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    %ENTRAPPED IMPRISONED CONTENTIOUS RELATIONSHIPS+020206
  %OPPOSING SIDES PARADOX ACKNOWLEDGE AFFIRM OTHERS+020206
    %SELF EGO COMPLEMENTARY TRUTHS INTEGRITIES SELF+020206
 %MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE EXTREME TERRORISTS ENEMIES GOD+020206
   %COMPROMISE COOPERATION PERSONAL COMMUNAL HEALTH+020206
 %INTEGRITIES TRAGICALLY FLAWED ATTITUDES QUESTIONS+020206
 %ASSUMPTIONS REASONING LOGIC CONCLUSIONS JUDGEMENT 020206
                                                          
     Often many people become entrapped/imprisoned within 
       contentious relationships on opposing sides of     
         a paradox which entails truths which opponents   
           cannot bring themselves to acknowledge, & much 
             less can they affirm the complementary       
               truths  which they regard as separable,    
                 if not independent --- for they cannot   
                   acknowledge how they are               
                     complementary.                       
                                                          
     When imprisoned/entrapped as suggested above, people 
       only rarely transcend all of the following         
         probable ways of responding to their situation:  
                                                          
           1.  By regarding the opposite positions as     
               mutually exclusive in extreme ways;        
               un-reconcilable in any way whatsoever.     
                                                          
           2.  By regarding the opposite positions as     
               permitting compromise and/or cooperation;  
               for the sake of the peace and integrities  
               of the community and its members ---       
               seeking some "middle-ground".              
                                                          
           3.  By seeing the intractable situation as     
               being created by tragically flawed:        
               attitudes, assumptions, beliefs,           
               questions, and responses; and calling      
               for the transcendence and/or subversion    
               of those tragic flaws, in as gracious ways 
               as can be engendered with as few losers    
               as possible.                               
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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