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 %MAINTAIN PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITIES DOMINATION 040103
%SYSTEMS ANALYSIS WHOLE HEALTHY CIVILIZATION LOVERS 040103
 %RECOGNIZE NAME DESCRIBE TRANSCEND SUBVERT CONVERT 040103
%PEACEMAKERS CONFLICT RESOLUTION RECONCILIATION GOD 040103
%MISLEADING COMPULSIVE NARROW FOCUS ATTENTION DEVIL 040103
%LABEL ENEMIES PREPARE DENIGRATE KILL ELIMINATE SIN 040103
      
      To maintain our personal and communal integrities in 
dealing with  domineering people --- we need to be able to 
recognize, name, describe and transcend: 
      
      1.  The  kinds of foci upon which domineering people 
get us to  NARROWLY-FOCUS our attention ---  in COMPULSIVE 
ways which are tragically misleading; e.g.: 


                                                    
                
          a.  Denigrating  people  whom we do not know  or 
          barely  know anything about ---  to get us to be 
          willing to attack, destroy,  and/or kill them in 
          ritualistic violence as in  terrorists'  actions 
          and wars that use weapons of mass destruction. 
      
          b.  Accentuating  differences  between  us   and 
          people whom the domineering people have labelled 
          as "enemies". 

          c.  Repressing open  and   honest communications 
          between  us  and  people  whom  the  domineering 
          people have labelled as "enemies". 

          d.  Attempting to dominate/control realities and 
          processes  which  are  utterly beyond  anybody's 
          ability to dominate or control. 
      
      2.  The kinds  of  FOCI-AWAY-FROM-WHICH  domineering 
people shift our attention --- in DISTRACTIVE-MOVES  which 
are tragically misleading;  e.g.  away from essential foci 
such as: 

          a.  Reverence towards the essential  foundations 
          for personal and communal integrities of diverse 
          kinds --- foundations that are indispensable for 
          long-term humane:   survival,  health,   wisdom, 
          prudence, civility, hope, meaning, civilization, 
          etc. 

          b.  Reverence  towards diverse life-forms  which 
          play  essential roles in the  ecosystems  within  
          which humans are very late arriving actors. 

          c.  Acknowledging  the  immensity,    complexity  
          and full  scope  in time and  space of the whole 
          cosmos --- within  which   Planet-Earth  and all  
          human civilizations have played,  and can  play,  
          only tiny bit parts. 

          d.  Acknowledging    human   limits   and    the 
          importance of   humility,    cooperation,   hos-
          pitality  and balance   in  dealing  with  those 
          limits  and the limitations they place upon  all 
          humans. 
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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