This is http://www.essayz.com/b0302071.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %DESTRUCTIVE NEGATIVE FEED BACK LOOPS CYCLE AROUND+030207 %REPENTANCE TURNING BACK REVERENCE CIVILITY LOVERS+030207 %HOSPITALITY GENEROSITY FORGIVENESS RECONCILIATION+030207 %CEREMONY OBSERVANCE CELEBRATION DEFENSIVE SELFISH+030207 %ISOLATED SEPARATED ALIENATED INVULNERABILITY EVIL 030207 In a community where reverence, civility, courtesy and similar related virtues are rarely observed --- people are likely to be far more insecure and defensive --- than in communities where reverence, civility, courtesy and similar related virtues are regularly observed. The consequence is that in the absence of the observance of essential virtues (and ceremonies which celebrate the essential virtues) --- negative feed-back-loops build up and further undermine both personal and communal integrities. The way to deal with EVIL is in the way that healthy people observe the importance of essential virtues and ceremonies --- so as to eliminate the conditions which feed destructive feed-back-loops. An observance/ceremony --- in time saves the need for nine observances/ceremonies at a later time when negative- feed-back-loops have cycled around many destructive times and a war looms over all people. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================