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%HOPELESS LIFE GRIND ON WITHOUT HEALTHY SELF-ESTEEM 031007
%LOSE GAIN WILLING RISK TRUST GIVE LITTLE DESPERATE 031007
%GROUND ESSENTIAL FOUNDATIONS PERSONAL COMMUNAL GOD 031007
%REGAIN LOST FAITH BELIEFS CONVICTION UNDERSTANDING 031007
 %KEYS KINGDOM HEAVEN SALVATION REDEMPTION FEELINGS 031007
%SUICIDE WAR TERRORISM EXTREMISTS UNBALANCED LOVERS 031007

     People  who  FEEL  robbed  of all  grounds  for hope,
health,  and healthy self-esteem have virtually nothing to
lose in their efforts to regain hope,  health, and healthy
self-esteem ---   so  they are willing to  risk/give  what
little  they  have  in  desperate efforts  to  regain some
grounds for hope, health,  and healthy self-esteem.   They
are willing to give their lives in such desperate efforts,
and willing to take the lives of others who similarly  are
seen as having no grouds for true hope,  helth and healthy
self-esteem.   The KEY to understanding their actions does
not  lie  in any objective realities;  but in how and  why
they FEEL as they do.

     Any  community which acts in ways which  engender and
maintain such personal FEELINGS of having been  robbed  of
all grouds for hope, health,  and healthy  self-esteem ---

       will  lose  its own  grounds for hope,  health, and
       healthy self-esteem ---

         as such HOPELESS people gather  together to share
         their FEELINGS of  desperation,  hoplessness, and
         anger

           to encourage each other to take their own lives
           (and other people's lives) into their own hands
           in

             desperate suicidal acts of personal and
             communal disintegration/denigration ---

               of the nature of the community which they
               feel has

                 robbed them of all of their grounds for
                 hope, health, and healthy self-esteem ---

                   for they feel that that is the best
                   they can do within the context of their
                   lives as their hopeless lives grind on.

     Within  such hopless contexts true-lovers in hope sow
the   seeds   of:   shalom,    reconciliation,    healing,
peacemaking,  conflict-resolution,   kindness,   civility,
hospitality, generosity, etc.   In their  tragically hope-
less RESPONSE ---  many  domineering people  see hope only
within  the  context of gaining:  control,  dominance  and
invulnerability.   They  respond by sowing the  seeds  of:
fear, contentiousness, conflicts, pain, attacks, dis-ease,
defensiveness,  diseases,  arrogance,  self-righteousness,
collusions,    dis-honesty,   addictions,    codependence,
disintegration,  chaos,  confusion, ignorance,  prejudice,
anxiety, etc.

     Within  such hopless contexts true-lovers  have great
difficulty in their efforts to facilitate and promote:

     1.  Open and honest dialogue,

     2.  Active listening,

     3.  Balance and mutuality,

     4.  Civility, generosity or hospitality,

     5.  Reverence, respect or honor,

     6.  Trust, prudent-risk-taking or wisdom,

     7.  Hope, faith or mutual understanding,

     8.  Friendships, love or intimacy,

     9.  Forgiveness, healing or integrity,

    10.  Or other essential foundations of integrity.

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