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  %GOD TALK THEOLOGY BEING ENTITY SPACE-TIME COSMOS 040304
%THINGS OBJECTS I-THOU I-IT RELATIONSHIP TRUE-LOVER 040304
%FAR AWAY HEAVEN PLANETS STAR GALAXIES ASTRONOMY GO 040304
%DISTANT DETACHED DISINTEGRATE INCOHERENT SPIRITUAL 040304
%NATURES CHARACTERISTICS HONESTY INTIMACY REVERENCE 040304
 %RESPECT TRUST INVULNERABILE SAFETY DECEPTION EVIL 040304

     If  we  formulate  our  questions  about  God  as   a
being/entity  among beings/entities within the  space-time
of the cosmos, THEN:

     1.  We are tragically MIS-LED AWAY-FROM focusing upon
the   natures/characteristics   of   our   own    personal
RELATIONSHIPS:   honesty,   intimacy,   trust,    respect,
integrity, health, reconciliation,   healing,  sanctuaries
offering  safe vulnerability;    OR  deception,   attacks,
suspicion,   denigrations,   contentiousness,    dis-ease,
alienation,  decay,  battle-fields, fearful-vulnerability,
etc.    Power  corrupts,   and   absolute   (unrestrained)
concentrated-power   corrupts  absolutely.   Any  ULTIMATE
being/entity in  which ULTIMATE POWER IS CONCENTRATED  ---
is naturally  expected   to be  ultimately corrupt as  are
absolute/unrestrained:     dictators,  emperors,    kings,
lords, tyrants,  addicts, etc.

     2.  We    are    diverted   into    focusing    upon:
concentrating-power, forming-coalitions, evil-individuals,
conformity,    good-individuals,     superior-individuals,
purity,  rights, labeling,  ideal-forms,  enemies/friends,
domination and/or control  of enemies/friends,   contests,
contentiousness, competitions, endless-conflicts, battles,
attacks,       defenses,      security-as-invulnerability,
technocratic-means-to-salvation/security, etc.

                 - - - - - - - - - - - -

     If  we formulate our questions about God as the power
of the inspiration and creation  of many diverse forms of:
beings, things, relationships,  integrities, integrations,
health,  friendships,  intimate-relationships,   intimate-
communities,   honesty,  open-and-honest-dialogue/sharing,
love,  True-Lovers, reconciliation,  peace-making,   etc.;
THEN:

     1.  We  are led to RECOGNIZE AND ACKNOWLEDGE the ways
in   which   our   OWN  things   and   relationships   are
characterized by:  disintegrations,   decay,  destruction,
dis-ease, diseases,   enmity,  anxiety,  fears,  distrust,
armies, attacks,  demands,   commandments,  prescriptions,
proscriptions,   taboos,   hate,  excommunications,   war-
preparations,   war-making,  revenge, terrorism, etc.  ---
and  to  act  wisely/prudently  in   the  LIGHT  of   such
RECOGNITIONS and ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

    2.  We are led to facilitate and promote many kinds of
healthy:    relationships,    integrities,   integrations,
friendships,  intimacies,  honesty,  openness,   dialogue,
sharing, love, reconciliation, peace-making, etc.

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