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   %HEALTH INTEGRITY HUMANE FAMILIES CITIES NATIONS+030313
%COMPLEMENTARY VALUES VIRTUES ATTITUDES ASSUMPTIONS+030313
  %ABSOLUTE TRUTHS EXTREMISTS FUNDAMENTALS COERCION+030313
  %ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIPS ALIENATION ANIMOSITY GRACE+030313
  %COERCION VIOLENT VIOLATIONS COHERENT COOPERATIVE+030313
%PROPER CONFORMITY INCLUSION REJECTED EXCOMMUNICATE 030313

     The health and integrity of humans,  families, cities
      and nations depend upon how well they integrate
       their complementary values,  virtues, attitudes and
        people who are incarnations thereof; for example
         by focusing much attention upon:

     1.  MUTUALLY-EXCLUSIVE values, virtues, attitudes and
          people --- thus LEADING people toward unhealthy
           relationships, alienation, animosity,
            distrust, coercion, and violent-conflicts;
             i.e., to personal & communal disintegration.

                              OR

     2.  COHERENT-SETS of MUTUALLY-COMPLEMENTARY values,
          virtues, attitudes and people who are working in
           cooperative ways which more helpfully LEAD to
            the inclusion of many different kinds of:
             individuals, couples, families, groups,
              fellowships, etc. --- within civil
               communities and sanctuaries.

     Such  contrasts between life-ways which  focus  human
attention  and  efforts  --- point to the reasons for some
civilizations  being  healthy  and  enduring;   and  other
civilizations destroying themselves as they fight over how
well-integrated-people must  be-forced-to-conform  to what
some domineering-people insist is: proper, right and true.

     We  need  to be clear that just as there are  various
ways  in which complementary values, virtues and attitudes
can be  woven into coherent well-integrated-wholes;  there
are  diverse PEOPLE  WHO  ARE  THEMSELVES  INCARNATIONS OF
SUCH  COHERENT  WELL-INTEGRATED-WHOLISTIC  COLLECTIONS  of
values,  virtues, and attitudes.  We also need to be clear
that   here  the   collection   of   words:      "values",
"virtues",     and  "attitudes"   only point to  the  much
larger  possible  set  of words    which    can   properly
include   words    such    as:   "principles",   "ideals",
"goals",   "myths", "cosmologies", "paradigms", "visions",
"dreams",    "fantasies",    etc.  Complementary different
people   are  themselves incarnations    of  complementary
different   collections  of  different threads ---   woven
into  complementary  fabrics which all civilizations  need
and   depend   upon ---   for  their  survival  as  humane
civilizations.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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