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%ROOTS INCOHERENT HUMAN PATTERNS BEHAVIOR CRAZY GOD+020909
%MENTALLY ILL DERANGED DISINTEGRATION QUESTION SINS+020909
    %COERCION VIOLENCE VIOLATION INTEGRITIES HEALTH+020909
  %EVOLUTION SPECIES SURVIVAL FITTEST TERRORISM WAR+020909
%DISEASE PLAGUE MOB GANG CLIQUE SELF RIGHTEOUS WILL 020909
                                                          
     What  are the roots of incoherent human  patterns  of
behavior?   Some people are crazy, mentally ill, deranged.
It  is not their incoherent behaviors which are  addressed
in   this   question.     The question here is about   the
overall  pattern   of incoherence in the violent  ways  in
which   most humans  respond  to  human violence.      Why
is  the  most dominant  species of creatures ---  so prone
to  do  violence  to other  members of the  same  species?
In  what  way is that overall  pattern of behavior  to  be
understood?      How  does that pattern of  responding  to
violence with violence to be understood?    In the  modern
era  it has become a threat  to the survival of all  kinds
of  creatures;   not just a threat to the survival of  one
kind of creatures.    Such a threat needs to be understood
if we are to survive the threat.                          
                                                          
     How   is  evil  related  to  the  threat  of  violent
responses to violence?                                    
                                                          
     How  is  evil  related to incoherence,  the  lack  of
integrity,    the  absence of integrative patterns in  our
behaviors?                                                
                                                          
     What are the roots of incoherence and evil?     Where
do they grow in the most threatening ways?    What are the
contexts  within  which incoherent and  evil relationships
become  the  dominant  kinds of relationships?     Why  do
people (and communities)   and  communities  disintegrate;
i.e.,    become incoherent  ---   rather  than increase in
coherence   and  integrity?     Why do some people  become
more  coherent   and  well   integrated,    while   others
become    incoherent  and disintegrate?      Why  do  some
people   ask   incoherent   and  disintegrative  kinds  of
questions;  and others ask coherent and  integrative kinds
of  questions?      Why do some people  respond   to  good
questions  in  incoherent ways,   and others  in  coherent
ways?                                                     
                                                          
     What  is  it about the ways in which  humans  evolved
that has lead members of the human species to be the  only
ones who systematically try to destroy vast collections of
other members of their own species --- without there being
any  practical  advantage to doing  so?    How  does  that
promote  the  survival of the species?    Is such behavior
"inbred" or an "aberration"?                              
                                                          
     Might  the  "disease-model"   and  the  notion  of  a
"plague"   be  helpful  in dealing with the  phenomena  of
the threats of coercion, violence, terrorism and war?   In
what  ways?      In  framing  questions?       Envisioning
appropriate   responses?      In   promoting   cooperative
efforts?                                                  
                                                          
     Is the attitude/belief that we can improve things for
just   ourselves  and   others   near   us  (through   the
use/threat   of   coercion  and/or   violence)    like   a
virus/bacteria   able  to infect the minds  and  souls  of
people  who  are NOT IMMUNE to the    attitude/belief  ---
because    such   people    HAVE    NOT  internalized    a
coherent/well-integrated set  of  beliefs; intellectually,
emotionally, and communally.                              
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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