This is http://www.essayz.com/b0408211.htm         
Previous-Essay      <== This-Essay ==>     Following-Essay
Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words.
{Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.}
==========================================================
       =====>   See what editing of this essay will come later.  <======

  %ABSENCE LACK MISSING SYSTEMATIC WELL DISCIPLINED 040821
  %TRUE LOVERS UNDERSTAND TRAINED RESISTING VIOLENT 040821
 %DESTRUCTIVE DISINTEGRATIVE COERCION DISHONESTY IT 040821
 %THOU HEALTHY INTIMACIES RELATIONSHIPS MYTH COSMIC 040821
 %REDEMPTIVE ALIENATION EXCOMMUNICATE ESTRANGEMENTS 040821

    In  the  absence of systematic and  well  disciplined
efforts  of  true-lovers to understand  and  become  well
trained in the successful ways of RESISTING-NON-VIOLENTLY
--- most  communities  fall  into  destructive  ways   of
RESISTING-VIOLENTLY  under the DOMINANT-LEADERSHIP of  of
leaders who believe in the MYTH-OF-REDEMPTIVE-VIOLENCE.

    RESISTING-NON-VIOLENTLY  is essential to  maintaining
the the personal and communal integrity of each community
--- so that there is no tendency to drift and  fall  into
the destructive ways of RESISTING-VIOLENTLY the DOMINANT-
LEADERS who are present within virtually all communities.

    RESISTING-NON-VIOLENTLY   is   not   a   last-minute-
strategy  which  can  be used just WAR  preparations  are
about to engulf a community;   but rather RESISTINNG-NON-
VIOLENTLY  is THE-FIRST-MINUTE-STRATEGY which must be use
minute-by-minute to avoid  the slippery slopes created by
the  MYTH-OF-REDEMPTIVE-VIOLENCE  as  described by Walter
Wink  in  his graciously powerful book "The  Powers  That
Be".

    We  need  to  be clear about the ways  in  which  the
tragic  vices  of the MYTH-OF-REDEMPTIVE-VIOLENCE  infect
the  hearts,   minds and priorities of children  who  are
taught to believe in the MYTH-OF-REDEMPTIVE-VIOLENCE  by:
cartoons,   comic-books,   video-games,   computer-games,
movies,   war-games,  military-schools,   Sunday-Schools,
Private-Schools, Public-Schools,  religious-institutions,
feature-movies, news-reports, multi-national-corporations
and their advertising-arms/armaments.

    We  also need to be clear about the ways in which the
liberating-virtues  of True-Lovers inoculate the  hearts,
minds and  priorities  of children who  are taught how to
expose-the-incoherence of the MYTH-OF-REDEMPTIVE-VIOLENCE
by integrative:   parents,  extended-families, relatives,
and    True-Lovers   participating   in   True-Sanctuary-
Communities which-model  the liberating-virtues which are
the   essential-foundations   for   personal-and-communal
integrations-and-integrities.

    In  the absence of the above kinds of systematic  and
intentional  efforts  ---  we tend to drift  towards  and
slide  into  the black-holes of  the  MYTH-OF-REDEMPTIVE-
VIOLENCE.  There is nothing very original about such sin!

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