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  %GRACIOUS HONEST RESISTANCE SPEAKS TRUTH TO POWER 040902
  %RISK LOSING LIFE PROBABLE HIGH LEVEL TRUE LOVERS 040902
%IMPOSSIBLE ACHIEVEMENT SECURITY INVULNERABILITY GO 040902
%LETTING SELF OTHERS RELAX RECOVER RECONCILE HEALTH 040902
%SHALOM PEACEMAKERS CONFLICT RESOLUTION QUESTION IT 040902
%I-THOU EVIL RELATIONSHIPS ALIENATION DISMISS DEVIL 040902

     Does  RESISTANCE  which-is-non-violent always  entail
the    risk-of-being-killed?      With   what   level   of
probability?   A high-level-of-probability?    If so,  why
so?

     Is  it  impossible to engage in RESISTANCE  which-is-
non-violent   ---   when   the   risk-of-being-killed   is
essentially zero?  If so, why so?

     Might it be that non-violent-resistance is  dismissed
as impractical because people have not thought through the
above kinds of questions ---  and so have not responded to
the above kinds of questions thoughtfully.

     In   fact  it  is  often  possible  to  RESIST   some
domineering  efforts  of domineering-people ---   in  ways
which entail no violence; e.g., by:

     1.  Studying  the  teachings of  Jesus  of  Nazareth,
Ghandi,  M.L.  King,  Nelson Mandella,  and others of like
kind, especially their teachings about RESISTANCE which is
not violent.

     2.  Studying    the   nature   of   the    attitudes,
assumptions,  beliefs and thought patterns of bullies when
they  are  young  and as they grow  more  sofisticated  as
domineering people --- using covert, overt, or tacit forms
of coercion and violence.

     3.  Studying  how  people's  patterns  of   religious
bliefs  and  rituals  relate to how well  they  relate  to
different people whom they do not know well?

     4.  Studying  the SUCCESSFUL  NON-VIOLENT-REVOLUTIONS
in  places like:  India regarding independence from  Great
Britain,    the   USA  Civil-Rights-Revolution   regarding
segregation,    The  South  African  Revolution  regarding
segregation;    and   non-violent   revolutions    against
dictatorial  goverments  in Poland and the Philapines,  as
some of the most outstanding examples.  In each case there
were   extensive  educational  and  training  preparations
before each success story.

     5.  Studying the relative costs to all those affected
---   in instances of violent-revolutions compared to non-
violent as compared to non-violent-revolutions?

     6.  Studying   transitions  between  revolutions   of
violent-resistance into the evolution of democratic-forms-
of-goverment --- where conflicts are resolved through  the
election  of  representatives  by large fractions  of  the
people in each extended community.

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