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%RESPECTED RELIGIOUS LEADERS TRADITIONS PEACEMAKERS 030827
%RECONCILERS HEALERS INTEGRATORS DIPLOMATS LIBERATE 030827
%OPEN HONESTY AUTHENTICITY ACCURATE DESCRIPTION GOD 030827
%CONFLICTING IDEALS VALUES PRINCIPLES COERCION EVIL 030827
 %SUPERIOR FORMS PERFECTION ARROGANCE RIGHTEOUSNESS 030827
 %DISINTEGRATION CONTENTIOUS BATTLES DEATH DISEASES 030827

     Many  highly respected religious leaders within  many
religious traditions have  taught that we are called to be
true-peacemakers;  i.e.:  true-lovers,   true-reconcilers,
true-healers,  true-integrators,   true-diplomats,   true-
liberators,   etc.   Their emphasis has often  been  upon:
honesty,   authenticity, accurate-descriptions,  openness,
sharing, balance, etc,

     We  cannot ourselves truly-be-peacemakers  so-long-as
we-ourselves-cling  to  any firm beliefs/convictions  that
for-us-in-particular there are times when:

     1.  Dominance/coercion/violence are good/right.

     2.  We our-selves are superior to other-selves.

     3.  Our-forms-of-perfection are superior to others'.

     4.  Arrogance and self-righteousness are O.K.

     5.  We are closer-to-God than most-others.

     6.  Others'-ideals should yield to our-ideals.

     7.  Others'-values should yield to our-values.

     8.  Others'-principles should yield to our-own.

     9.  Others'-desires should yield to our-desires.

    10.  Others'-goods/needs should-be-sacrificed for-us.

    11.  Our-ways are-superior-to other-peoples'-ways.

    12.  Our-standards are-better-than others'-standards.

    13.  Other-people should-communicate in-our-language.

    14.  Other-people should-think/reason in-our-language.

    15.  Other-people should-compete under-our-rules.

    16.  Other-people should-worship our-idols as-we-do.

    17.  Other-people should-not embarrass-us in any way.

    18.  Other-people must-not-challenge our-assumptions.

    19.  No-reality can truly-transcend-us as-a-reality.

    20.  No-reality can truly-merit-our-reverence.

    21.  Our self-righteousness will-be-validated.

    22.  Our-enemies will-be-proven to-be evil-people.

    23.  Our power-concentrations will-last for-ever.

    24.  Truly-good-people are like-us.

    25.  Truly-good-people conform-to-please us-alone.

    26.  We should-not yield-anything to different-people.

    27.  Conflicts are resolved only when-we-alone-win.

    28.  There is no need for me to cooperate.

    29.  There is no need for me to be balanced/moderate.

    30.  It is evil to cooperate with "strange-people".

    31.  I-alone will be utterly-invulnerble by-myself.

    32.  YOU must help me-alone to be-invulnerable/safe.

     The  death  of an organ,  organism,  person,  family,
community, organization, city,  state, nation or world ---
comes about as, and because,  its respective parts fail to
communicate/cooperate   with  different  parts.    In  the
absence  of  honesty,  openness and  accurate  sharing  of
information ---  integration,  cooperation,  collaboration
and integrity cease to exist.     Disintegration and death
then prevail.

     The  process  of  disintegration  and  death  may  be
gradual  ---   as  in  occasions  of  slowly   escalating:
dominance,  coercion,   violence and preparations for war.
Or, the process of disintegration and death may be sudden,
as in  occasions  when terrorists and official militarists
explode   unofficial   and  official   weapons   of   mass
destruction which  disintegrate the terrorists/militarists
of  both  unofficial  and  official  kinds.    The use  of
official   acts   of   terrorism  often  leads   to   more
disintegration   that  the  use  of  un-official  acts  of
terrorism.    Official  terrorism  does not  eliminate  or
reduce unofficial terrorism.

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