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    %CAREFUL ABOUT RELIABLE SIGNS WHOM SAFELY TRUST 040818
  %HONOR SUPPORT REGARD REVERENCE MISLEADING BEWARE 040818
 %EVIL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN AMONG DIFFERENT PEOPLE 040818
  %ALIENATION ESTRANGEMENT SEPARATION ARROGANT SINS 040818
  %SELF OTHER RIGHTEOUS EXCLUSIVE UNILATERAL COERCE 040818
  %COERCION VIOLENCE NUCLEAR WAR WMD MUTUAL DESTROY 040818

    We need to be careful about which "signs"  we view as
"reliable-signs"   as regards WHOM we can  safely  trust,
honor, support or regard with reverence.  Not all "signs"
are  equally  reliable.    Some "signs"   are  misleading
"signs"  and we  need to be-aware-of and beware  of being
mislead by such misleading "signs".

    1.  "Signs"  are misleading when:

        trusting, honoring, supporting, or-showing-
        reverence for  them --- leads us into EVIL-
        RELATIONSHIPS which are characterized by:

          alienation, estrangement, separation,
          arrogance, self-righteousness, exclusivity,
          unilateral-actions, domination, coercion,
          violence, etc. ---

            on the part of leading-participants within
            the relationships; even if the "leaders" are
            a-relatively-small-fraction of all-those-who-
            are-involved in the EVIL-RELATIONSHIPS.

    2.  We  cannot  truly rely  upon "religious-beliefs",
"positions-taken",      "doctrines-affirmed", "political-
affiliations", "rituals-performed", "cultural-heritages",
"habitual-patterns" and their like --- as "safe-signs" to
tell  us  WHOM we can safely trust,  honor,   support  or
regard   with   reverence  ---    apart-from   the-above-
considerations.

    3.  We cannot truly rely upon any "signs"  to tell us
which people are GOOD-PEOPLE and which people  are  EVIL-
PEOPLE;  because the "categories"  GOOD-PEOPLE and  EVIL-
PEOPLE are inherently misleading "categories" ---  as are
the "categories":    GOOD-COLORS;    EVIL-COLORS,   GOOD-
WAVELENGTHS,    EVIL-WAVELENGTHS;   GOOD-WEIGHTS,   EVIL-
WEIGHTS;   GOOD-DISTANCES,  EVIL-DISTANCES;   GOOD-TIMES,
EVIL-TIMES;  etc.    Such misleading "categories"  do not
merit our trust,  honor,  support or reverence within any
contexts or situations.

    4.  We cannot truly rely upon any  "signs"  to serve-
us-preferentially    and   help-us-to-be:     SUCCESSFUL,
DOMINANT, IN-CONTROL, IN-VULNERABLE == SECURE,  SUPERIOR,
etc.    ---   because  the-nature-of-the-cosmos  is  not-
sympathetic  to such    unilateral-achievements   at-the-
expense-of-vulnerable-others;   AND/OR  at-the-expense-of
any     personal-and/or-communal      integrities-and/or-
integrations.

    5.  We  cannot  truly create  and/or make use  of any
LABELS  of ANY-KIND which can  serve-us-preferentially in
any  ways as RELIABLE-SIGNS.    Isolated-people  WHOM  we
have LABELED as EVIL-PEOPLE  are not EVIL-PEOPLE  WHOM we
can truly use-successfully-as-means   to    acieve    our
UNILATERALLY-CHOSEN "goals", "purposes", or "ends".

    People  who are unintentionally,  thoughtlessly,   or
maliciously unaware-of  and/or indifferent-to  the  above
considerations --- are likely to become involved in EVIL-
RELATIONSHIPS which they do not understand, transcend, or
heal in any meaningful ways.

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