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 %CONTENTIOUS TENSION FACTS BELIEF DOCTRIN CONTRARY 040201
   %EVIDENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIMENTS SCIENCE DEMANDS 040201
%MISLEADING BEHAVIOR INCOHERENT DISINTEGRATIVE LOVE 040201
%TRUTHS DESCRIPTIONS ALIENATION ANGER DISTRUST EVIL 040201
   %SACRIFICE PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITIES BALANCE 040201
%DESIRES DIALOGUE PERCEPTIONS PRAYERS SPIRITS GRACE 040201

     CONTENTIOUS-PEOPLE  with-tension = con-tension try to
affirm  statements of:  "fact",   "belief and/or doctrine"
which are contrary  = against-the-evidence of many common-
human-experiences.

     CONTENTIOUS-PEOPLE   keep   people   in-tension    by
demanding  that vulnerable-people agree  with  mis-leading
statements of "fact", "belief" and/or "doctrine" which:

         1.  Are incoherent; i.e., do not hang-together.
         2.  Lack integrity with supportive evidence.
         3.  Demand the acceptance of dishonest-living.
         4.  Generate alienation, anger and distrust.
         5.  Presume the acceptance of false cosmologies.
         6.  Demand acceptance of false/incoherent myths.
         7.  Mislead people into alienative relationships.
         8.  Sacrifice personal and communal integrities.
         9.  Lead to imbalanced/extremists' behaviors.
        10.  Promote fears, doubts and uncertainties.
        11.  Denigrate the authority of our experiences.
        12.  Denigrate the authority of our discernments.
        13.  Try to DOMINATE/CONTROL many people's
             thoughts, desires, hopes, communications,
             aspirations, ambitions, motivations, fears,
             perceptions, dreams, visions, dialogues and
             personal/communal relationships/prayers.

     The above considerations suggest how dangerous it  is
to  trust contentious/domineering people to hold positions
of formal leadership in our businesses,  political offices
and   religious   organizations.     It  is  dangerous  to
nominate,   honor and/or elect such persons  to  positions
where  business,  political  and/or  religious  powers are
concentrated.  Such people are prone to corrupt themselves
and  each  other by  concentrating wealth, possessions and
powers  into  the  hands  of contentious  and  domineering
people;  and  to  promote  preparations  for  battles  and
wars  against  the  people  whom  they  have  labelled  as
evil-enemies --- without  first  really   knowing  them as
individual   people   or   communities    with  their  own
distinctive  kinds  of integrities.

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