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  %COMMON SENSE PERSONAL COMMUNAL MINDS COOPERATION 031028
%INTEGRATION INTEGRITIES DIVERSE KINDS GRACIOUS SIN 031028
 %GODLY DEVILS ACTS ALIENATION RESENTMENT ESTRANGED 031028
%WORSHIP REVERENCE HONOR IDOLATRY COERCION VIOLENCE 031028
%ARROGANCE SELFRIGHTEOUS PRIDE NARCISSISM GREEDY IT 031028
%BEING PRESENT THOU HOLY GRACIOUS CIVILITY HOSPITAL 031028

    These  following are a few things for common people to
think about:

    Can it make sense for us, or for others, to say, teach
or  believe  that it is God's Will that  we,   or  others,
accept  the notion that it is God's will that  domineering
people use: threats, coercion and violence to force "evil-
people"   to  think,   feel,  believe  and  do  ---   what
domineering people  say  that  the  labeled  "evil-people"
should think, feel, believe and do; because God said so?

    Can any good come from submissive people conforming in
ways that domineering, coercive and violent people demand?

    Can  any good come from submissive people copying  the
attitudes,    assumptions,    beliefs,   and   domineering
TECHnologies  which  coercive and violent people TEaCH  as
narrow  minded TECHnocrats/TEaCHnocrats ---  through their
own coercive/violent words and deeds?

    Can we as peacemakers  facilitate  or promote personal
or communal integrities  by  imitating  the  ways in which
arrogant,  self-righteous, domineering and/or coercive and
violent people ---  try to make us be "good" like they are
"good"?

    Can  anyone  as a peace-MAKER   MAKE  others be "good"
through   domination  ---   in  the  absence  of   willing
cooperation  which  is  graciously  elicited  from  common
people to whom God as Love has given  his gracious freedom
to  MAKE their  own gracious choices ---  to promote  both
personal  and  communal integrities of diverse  KINDs  ---
through KIND and creative Acts of Love?

    Can anyone promote mutual understanding,  cooperation,
creativity,  honest-dialogue or integrity  of any KIND ---
through the use of any  means and  technologies which are:
MEAN,  MEANingless,  unilateral,  arbitrary,   capricious,
prejudiced,   narrow,   unbalanced,   extreme and/or prone
to promote terror and resentment of any KIND?

    Can any teachings, doctrines, or rituals make sense in
ways which will be truly accepted by common people ---  if
those teachings, doctrines, and rituals do NOT demonstrate
common forms of: coherence, integrity, honesty,  civility,
hospitality,    kindness,   patience,   grace,    balance,
mutuality, cooperation, reverence and integrity?

    Can  domineering experts unilaterally  supply  us with
any meaningful forms of integrity,   health,   well-being,
meaning,    significance,   success,   pleasure,   joy  or
fulfillment?

    The  above  are a  few things and questions for common
people to think about --- for their own good and  for  the
good of each other.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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