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 %PREOCCUPIED OPPOSITION DEVIL EFFORTS PEOPLE WRONG 041230
%EMPOWER ENEMIES SETTING THEIR/OUR PRIORITIES TRUTH 041230
%COMPLEMENTARY COHERENT INTEGRATIVE COOPERATION GOD 041230
    %WARS TERRORISM TERRORISTS NATIONS FUNDAMENTALS 041230
%INSIGHTS PRINCIPLES IDEALS VALUES META PARADIGM ID 041230
  %GRADUAL SMOOTH TRANSITION STAGES GROWTH LEARNING 041230

     What  are  some insights and principles in  terms  of
which we  can  with  integrity  distinguish between truly-
integrative-efforts on the  one  hand ---  and tragically-
disintegrative-efforts  to  unilaterally-resolve:    human
conflicts, contentious-debates, coercive-actions, violent-
domination and dictatorial-take-overs?   The following may
help:

     Truly-Integrative-efforts often involve:

     1.  Gradual  step-by-step  progresses  which  involve
honest-respect  for  whole:  contexts,   situations,   and
complementary  ---  people,  ideals,   values,   insights,
paradigms,  views, perspectives, experiments, experiences,
authorities, etc.

     2.  Authentic committments  to:  honesty,   openness,
transparency,  civility,  hospitality, kindness,  balance,
mutuality, sharing, generosity, distributive-justice, due-
process, cooperation, collaboration, etc. --- demonstrated
by coherent-words-and-actions.

     3.  Clear  efforts  to  clarify  the  meanings and/or
implications of:  concepts, questions, images,  responses,
languages,  words, phrases, actions,  cosmologies,  myths,
paradigms, beliefs, faiths, rituals, traditions, etc.

     4.  Efforts  to clarify the origins of  dysfunctional
human  behaviors  in the effects of:  bacteria,   viruses,
prions,  molds, protesoa,   DNA-defects,  micro-biological
processes,    trauma,   injuries,   violence,    coercion,
addictions,  co-dependency,  collusions,  unfounded-fears,
paranoia,  mental-illness, misleading-concepts, confusion,
attacks,   alienation,  excommunications,  cult-religions,
fundamentalism,     exclusivity,     arrogance,      self-
righteousness, etc.

     5.  Good-will  in efforts to integrate the  insights,
perspectives, views and attitudes of objective-scientists,
gracious-peacemakers,   mystics,   and diverse  spiritual-
leaders.

     6.  Dispositions   to   trust   well-integrated   and
gracious  role-models  --- more than the  purity of ideal-
forms, formulas, formalities, and forms-of-conformity.

     7.  Dispositions  to  trust well-informed  and  well-
trained   NON-VIOLENT-RESISTORS  ---   more   than   trust
domineering people who are motivated,  guided and rewarded
by: COLLUSIONS,  "The Domination  System",  "The Military-
Industrial-Complexes", "Economic-Hit-Men", "Nationalistic-
Security-Agencies", "Corpor-Autocracies", "Multi-National-
Corporations"; violence, terrorists, terrorism,  coercion,
nuclear-weapons,   mutually-assured-destruction,   ICBM's,
etc.

     With  a little bit of imagination it is easy to  make
reverse   statements  pointing  to  misleading   concepts,
dispositions,  foci-of-trust, etc.   Usually NEGATIONS and
OPPOSITION   are   not  as  helpful   as   are   positive
affirmations and integrative efforts.

     When   we   become  compulsively   preoccupied   with
IDENTIFYING, LABELING and OPPOSING evil-individuals --- we
tend  to be destroyed by our own  EVIL-RELATIONSHIPS  with
the people whom we have IDENTIFIED, LABELED and OPPOSED as
EVIL-INDIVIDUALS  in-isolation from how we are RELATING to
them in OUR: alienations, estrangements, excommunications,
sin, prejudices, ignorance, exclusivities, judgementalism,
arrogance, self-righteousness, etc.

     When  we  are  blindly  preoccupied  with  being   in
OPPOSITION,   we have given our OPPONENTS the power to set
our  agenda;   we have  surrendered to our  OPPONENTS  ---
because  they  can  yank us around at their will by  their
constantly  changing  their  agenda  while we are  blindly
committed  to  opposing whatever they chose to focus their
attention upon.

     We can get out of the trap we laid for ourselves only
by  becoming  clearly  focused  upon  consistently  making
POSITIVE  AFFIRMATIONS  which are intentionally  COHERENT,
INTEGRATIVE, OPEN, HONEST, and free of preoccupations with
being righteously opposed to anything.

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