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%TRUST STABLE PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITY RISK WISE+020628
%DISCERN PRUDENT HEALTHY COMBINATIONS CHARACTER GOD+020628
   %WARNING SIGNS POINTERS DANGER COERCION VIOLENCE+020628
     %DECEPTION DISHONESTY ESCAPE CONCENTRATE POWER+020628
   %SELF OTHER COMFORTABLE SECURE VULNERABLE WEALTH+020628
  %UNBALANCED EXTREMISTS CERTAINTY EXCLUSIVITY SINS 020628
                                                          
     When trying to figure out which people we may trust  
        while we remain wise, prudent and healthy;        
          we may do well to seek to discern               
            which COMBINATIONS of human                   
              traits, characteristics                     
                and behaviors are                         
                  warning signs                           
                    OF DANGER IN:                         
                                                          
     1.  The willingness to use COERCION and VIOLENCE     
           in ways which encourage people to become       
             DECEPTIVE and DISHONEST --- in efforts       
               to escape from the COERCION and            
                 VIOLENCE thus engendered.                
                                                          
     2.  The tendency to CONCENTRATE POWER within         
           SELF and THOSE-LIKE-SELF in compulsive         
             efforts to make SELF and THOSE-LIKE-SELF     
               more comfortable, secure, and wealthy;     
                 in the presence of their enemies who     
                   are different, creative-peacemakers,   
                     gentle, gracious and honest.         
                                                          
     3.  CRITICS and DENIGRATORS --- of people who work   
           together in cooperative ways to RESIST ---     
             NONVIOLENTLY --- the efforts of the above    
               kinds of people - to DOMINATE and CONTROL  
                 people who are poorer, weaker, sicker    
                   and traditionally-oppressed within     
                     various kinds of caste systems.      
                                                          
     4.  People who demonstrate ARROGANCE and SELF-       
           RIGHTEOUSNESS --- in taking advantage of others
             who are HUMBLE SERVANTS seeking to PROMOTE   
               and FACILITATE both PERSONAL-INTEGRITY and 
                 COMMUNAL-INTEGRITY.                      
                                                          
     5.  PRETENTIOUS-AUTHORITIES who seem to KNOW-IT-ALL  
           with EXTREME-CERTAINTY as they GO-TO-EXTREMES  
             in making MUTUALLY-EXCLUSIVE-CLAIMS about    
               what is RIGHT, RIGHTEOUS, TRUE & CERTAIN --
                 against the COMPLEMENTARY-AFFIRMATIONS   
                   of HUMBLE-COMPLEMENTARY people who     
                     graciously serve many different      
                       kinds of people who are truly      
                         in need of the basic necessities 
                           of life.                       
                                                          
     6.  PREACHERS who RARELY-LISTEN with care to what    
           others are DEMONSTRATING & SAYING in diversely 
             creative  ways  ---   which  leave  DIFFERENT
               PEOPLE free to be true to themselves       
                 and others.                              
                                                          
     7.  People who are willing to sacrifice both PERSONAL
           INTEGRITIES and COMMUNAL INTEGRITIES while     
             defending themselves through TERRORIST ACTS  
               sponsored by private, religious, political 
                 and governmental agencies which are/feel 
                   threatened by changing environments,   
                     ideas, visions, ideals and values.   
                                                          
     8.  People who are threatened by honesty, grace and  
           Love --- while they are playing collusive games
             of mutual  self deception in support of their
               addictions   and deceptive   networks    of
                 codependent supporters of great and      
                   wonderful differences in               
                     power and wealth.                    
                                                          
     9.  UNBALANCED PEOPLE who sing the praises of their  
           lack of: balance, mutuality, generosity,       
             grace; tolerance, civility and cooperation.  
                                                          
    10.  LEGALISTS who sing the praises of their SURE     
           JUDGEMENTALISM --- in support of PLACING HEAVY 
             BURDENS upon the backs of poor people who are
               surely: imperfect, impure, unsure,         
                 confused, uncertain, alienated, weak and 
                   sick of dis-ease and diseases.         
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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