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%AVOID PERSONAL COMMUNAL ALIEANTION EXCOMMUNICATION 040421
%RESOLVE CONFLICTS TRAGIC CYCLES MISGUIDED CONSIDER 040421
%BITTER SWEET FRUIT MUCH PUBLIC ATTENTION NEWS EVIL 040421
%GOOD INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE BLAME SHAME GUILT LABEL GOD 040421
  %POLITICLA RELIGIOUS ARROGANCE SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS 040421
%PROJECT EXPORT EXTERNALIZE OBJECTIFY REFLEXIVE SIN 040421

      Peoples'    efforts  to  resolve  conflicts   and/or
eliminate war have often been tragically misguided;  i.e.,
focused  upon  considerations  other  than  the  following
considerations which  would   bear far sweeter fruit  than
have the considerations which  have traditionally received
much  public  attention.  Traditional considerations  have
focused upon:

      1.  Blaming and/or guilting ostensibly "evil":

           isolated individuals;
           isolated minority groups of people;
           ideals, values, principles, goals;
           thoughts, visions, fantasies, etc.

      2.  Identifying:

          "forces" which are "out-there" in nature,
          "principalities", "powers", "angels" to blame,
          "unchangeable" aspects of history or the cosmos,
          "unchangeable" aspects of "God's Will",

      3.  Laws of nature/evolution which we cannot change,

      4.  Genetic considerations which we cannot change,

      5.  Consequences of cosmic-ray-damage to tissues.

      All  of the above are safely outside of the realm of
what we-can-influence and be-responsible-for;  and so  are
preferred   over  considerations within the realm of  what
we-can  influence    and   be-responsible-for.    Avoiding
considerations  of what is within the realm of what we can
influence and be-responsible-for ---  is a very  effective
way of ostensibly avoiding blame,  shame, guilt,  failure,
etc.  ---  while laying the foundations for blame,  shame,
guilt,   failure,  tragedy,  personal-disintegrations  and
communal disintegrations.

      We  will do well to consider the following kinds  of
considerations  which are well within the realms of  what-
we-can influence and be-responsible-for:

      1.  Our   own  but   differing/conflicting   ideals,
values,  principles,  goals, desires, fantasies,  visions,
dreams, hopes, intentions, etc.

      2.  The   flawed  qualities/characteristics  of  our
own, but unexamined, personal and communal relationships.

      3.  Our    assumptions,     attitudes,      beliefs,
convictions,  traditions, etc. --- which motivate/drive us
to  be  "together"  doing "things"   which  drive-us-apart
because of:  resentments, fears, anger,  excommunications,
mental   illnesses,   physical  illnesses,    false-pride,
arrogance, self-righteousness, defensiveness,  insecurity,
and desires for invulnerability.

      4.  The  possibilities  of  improving  our  creative
potentials   through:  balance,    mutuality,    civility,
hospitality,   cooperation,  collaboration, and working to
facilitate and promote trust.

      5.  Creating   and  sharing  abundance  which   will
mitigate  our tendencies to fight over what we perceive as
being  inevitably scarce,  but essential to  our  isolated
well-being.

      6.  Being concerned about the welfare and health  of
the whole community;  rather than of just ourselves and of
our own few isolated friends.

      7.  Making  wise  and  prudent changes  in  our  own
misleading: assumptions, attitudes,  beliefs, convictions,
traditions, demands, habits, etc.

      8.  Our   own  failures  to  engage  in  cooperative
systems-analyses of what are the factors within us and our
relationships  which lead and motivate us  into  preparing
for  the continuation of endless-cycles-of-wars which  are
dishonestly-justified.

      9.  Addictions, codependent-relationships, collusive
games  of  mutual-self-deception,    power-concentrations,
coalitions,  exclusivities, arrogance, self-righteousness,
etc.

     10.  Refusals  to admit to complicity in refusing  to
learn  from: mistakes made,  reconciliations  avoided  and
other  forms of laying firm foundations for tragic  cycles
of personal and communal disintegrations.

                                Shalom

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