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%WISDOM WISE PRUDENT RESPONSE DOMINATION SYSTEM ACT+020830
 %ENTRAP RESPECT ARROGANT DUTIES POWERS RESPONSIBLE+020830
%VULNERABLE THIRSTY HUNGRY ILLITERATE IGNORANT GOOD+020830
%FEARFUL ALIENATED SEDUCED ABUSED DECEIVED ATTACKED+020830
%TERRORISM COERCION VIOLENCE MODERATION BALANCE GOD+020830
%NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE TRANSCENDENCE SUBVERSION SIN 020830
                                                          
     In order to to act wisely and prudently in responding
to  domineering people ---  we need to seek to  understand
WHY domineering supporters of "The Domination System"   so
regularly do some of the following:                       
                                                          
     1.  Lead  each  other  (and us)   to  give  excessive
attention  to those myths,  concepts and  doctrines  which
entrap and mislead many people into respecting domineering
people.                                                   
                                                          
     2.  Arrogate unto themselves many duties, powers, and
responsibilities  ---  at the expense of people  who  are:
thirsty,  hungry, illiterate, ignorant, confused, fearful,
homeless, sick, ill-at-ease, vulnerable, dis-eased, etc.  
                                                          
     3.  Seduce   people  into  becoming  participants  in
diverse collusive games of mutual self deception --- games
which undermine both personal and communal integrities.   
                                                          
     4.  Neglect  to facilitate and promote both  personal
and communal integrities.                                 
                                                          
     5.  Tempt   gentle  people  to  become   domineering,
coercive and violent.                                     
                                                          
     6.  Denigrate true lovers who are authentic imitators
of Jesus of Nazareth --- both in word and deed.           
                                                          
     7.  Focus their and our attention primarily upon Laws
--- to the exclusion of focusing attention upon God who is
Love.                                                     
                                                          
     To  be  well and stay well we need to understand  HOW
the above patterns of behavior "make-sense" to domineering
people.    The  dysfunctional  patterns of  behavior "make
sense"  only within the framework of domineering people's:
experiences, fears, perceptions, and ways of understanding
the natures of:  security, evil, vulnerability, integrity,
love, etc.                                                
                                                          
     In responding to domineering people we need to:      
                                                          
     1.  Be  moderate  and balanced;  insuring  that  due-
consideration  is  given to  all  essential/complementary:
values,  ideals,  ideas, insights, perspectives,  desires,
hopes, visions, fantasies, etc.                           
                                                          
     2.  Minimize extremism,  exclusivities,  dichotomies,
arrogance, self-righteousness, idolatries, etc. --- WITHIN
OURSELVES.                                                
                                                          
     3.  Keep in mind that we lose-it-all, when we fail to
work  together cooperatively to promote both personal  and
communal integrities for the sake of all ---  rather  than
for the sake of a few at the expense of most others.      
                                                          
     4.  If  we fail to be moderate in opposing  terrorism
and domination ---  we are likely to become extremists who
resort to terrorism and domination in our "good"   efforts
to overcome terrorism and domination.                     
                                                          
     5.  If  we fail to recognize the natures of traps  in
the realms of:  concepts,  doctrines, cosmologies,  myths,
legalistic-systems,  scientific-systems ---  we are likely
to become entrapped,   miss-led and imprisoned.    Then we
cannot  escape the traps we have created for ourselves ---
(and fallen into) because we have blinded ourselves to the
truths which we did not like or respect.                  
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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