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   %REDUCE MITIGATE DELIMIT EVIL UNDERSTAND NATURES+030413
%SUBSTANCE PLACE IDEA IMAGE PERSON RELATIONSHIP SIN+030413
%POLLUTION SUBSTANCE IMPERFECTION NONCONFORMITY GOD+030413
%ARROGANCE PRIDE SELF RIGHTEOUS DOMINATION CONTROLS+030413
%ESTRANGEMENT EXCOMMUNICATION ALIENATION DENIGRATED+030413
  %SUPERIORITY INFERIORITY JUDGMENT LAWS CONFORMITY 030413

     Before  we  can behave in ways which will reduce  the
amount  of  EVIL  in  the  world ---   we  have  to  first
understand  what  the  nature of EVIL  is;    we  have  to
identify  wherein EVIL resides.  It is often easier to say
what EVIL is not,  and where EVIL is not to be found; than
to say what EVIL is, and where EVIL is to be found:

     1.  Evil is not a substance like  rock, iron  or gold
---  which can be weighed professionally by a physicist in
a  physics laboratory.

     2.  Evil is not a chemical element or compound  which
can  be  identified  professionally  by  a  chemist  in  a
chemical laboratory.

     3.  Evil is not a physical-form-of-energy  which  can
be  measured  in terms of the official  Metric  System  of
International  Units  of Measurement with its unit  called
the   "Joule"  in terms of which to measure all  forms  of
physical-energy.

     4.  Evil  is not a feature of the natural environment
such as a mountain, river, lake, cloud or storm.

     5.  Evil  is  not a feature or aspect of any  of  the
above; and does not reside within any of the above.

     6.  Evil   is not a physical or physiological feature
of any isolated-individual person,  and does not reside as
a measurable "substance"   within  any isolated individual
person.

     7.  Evil is not a "stuff"  which can be taken out  of
any  isolated-individual person ---  to thereby  make  the
person be "free of evil".

     8.  Evil  is not a  form-of-pollution  which  can  be
shown   to  exist within any isolated:   physical  object,
place, idea, image, text or person.

     9.  Evil exists only within RELATIONSHIPS between and
among people; pertaining to the ABSENCE of integration and
integrity within RELATIONSHIPS.

    10.  Evil  is  to be recognized  within  RELATIONSHIPS
which are characterized by:

         Alienation,             Arrogance,
          Estrangement,           Self-Righteousness,
           Misunderstanding,       Judgementalism,
            Prejudice,              Condemnations,
             Ignorance,              Excommunications,
              Extremism,              Denigrations,
               Fear-of-Differences,    Domination,
                Mutual-Distrust,        Coercion.

     To reduce the amount of EVIL within  SPACE-SHIP-EARTH
we must work cooperatively to promote:

          Reconciliation,       Humility,
           Healing,              Mercy,
            Hospitality,          Forgiveness,
             Civility,             Hospitality,
              Reverence,            Sharing,
               Listening,            Balance,
                Dialogue,             Mutuality,
                 Integration,          Respect,
                  Gentleness,           Tolerance,
                   Integrity,            Coherence.

     Evil-RELATIONSHIPS   grow  worse  in the  ABSENCE  of
people  who  are   working  constantly  to  promote  those
realities  which are  pointed to by the words listed  just
above.

     It  is a terribly tragic mistake to believe  that  we
can eliminate evil in any true sense by:

     1.  Attempts to DESTROY what we regard as the foci of
evil in whatever form we conceive-evil-to-be.

     2.  Attempts to BANISH or SEND-OUT of our communities
those  things  and/or people whom we regard as tainted  by
the presence within-them as that which we regard as evil.

     3.  Attempts  to CONTROL or DOMINATE  those  isolated
individuals and/or groups of people ---  that we regard as
defective,  impure, imperfect, embarrassing,  threatening,
"different", "intolerable", or in any sense "evil".

     4.  Promoting  and  enforcing  superior standards-of-
individual-personal:      propriety,     conformity     or
righteousness  ---  while avoiding  consideration  of  the
characteristics  of our own defective  RELATIONSHIPS  with
others.

     5.  Guns,  bombs,  tanks, airplanes, land-mines,  and
other destructive technologies are impotent when it  comes
to  the tasks of transforming the characteristics of EVIL-
RELATIONSHIPS    into    the   characteristics   of    the
relationships among TRUE-LOVERS.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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