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  %SHOLOM TRUE LOVER GOD VULNERABILITY BALANCE OMNI 050214
 %POTENT KNOWING SCIENTIST CONCENTRATED POWER TIMES 050214
 %ETERNAL BEGINNING ENDING PRIMARY CAUSE CONSEQUENT 050214
   %SECURITY SAFETY SANCTUARY FORTRESS CASTLE KINGS 050214
 %QUEEN DICTATOR DOMINANT CONTROLLER ISOLATED DEVIL 050214
 %INSENSITIVE DEMAND COMMAND EXPECT REJECT ACCEPTED 050214
      
           We  cannot-know much-about true-security until we can
      together   explore  the  possibilities  of  enjoying   the
      pleasures-of-true-security within-the-context of balanced-
      and-mutual-vulnerability --- because:
      
           So long as we are domineering-people we cannot permit
      ourselves-or-others    to   be-together   within-intimate-
      relationships exploring the possibilities  of enjoying the
      pleasures-of-true-security within-the-context of balanced-
      and-mutual-vulnerability   with  distributive-justice  ---
      because:
      
           We  cannot-be-securely-invulnerable-by-ourselves  ---
      so  long  as others are free to expose-to-public-view the-
      true-fact that within  God's  finite-spaceship-Earth it is
      IMPOSSIBLE for us to be SECURELY-INVULNERABLE-BY-OURSELVES
      in ways which entail:  greed, self-centeredness, coercion,
      arrogance,   hubris  and  UNILATERAL:   violence, attacks,
      denigrations,  labeling-evil-people, labeling-good-people,
      destroying-evil-people,  protecting-good-people, rescuing-
      good-people,  being-superior, being-inferior --- because:
      
           The  above  all  entail  TRULY-TRAGIC:   alienations,
      estrangements,  biases,  excommunications,  judgmentalism,
      misunderstandings,    prejudice,    selective-favoritisms,
      collusions, ignorance, deafness, blindness, insensitivity,
      blockages,   suppression and repressions of  complementary
      truths/people --- because:
      
           Healthy-humane-relationships   are   OFTEN-IMPOSSIBLE
      within  the  contexts described above;   and  God  Himself
      cannot truly-command that Healthy-Humane-Relationships be-
      achieved   within the contexts  described  above.   God is
      NOT-ALL-POWERFUL.     God is NOT-OMNIPOTENT.   God is  not
      made in the image of any domineering-person.   God is NOT-
      KING and is NOT-QUEEN.  God is NOT the SUPPREEM-ADDICT-OR-
      CODEPENDENT. God is NOT-INVULNERABLE.  God is NOT-SEPARATE
      from the HUMAN-CONDITION.   GOD  is NOT-SUPERIOR.   God is
      NOT-TRANSCENDENT; beyond the human condition.  God is NOT-
      IMMUNE  TO-CHANGE.    God is NOT-UNCHANGING.   God is NOT-
      ETERNAL; because ---
      
           God   was   NOT-MADE   in-the-image   of    SUPERIOR:
      Domineering-Ones, addicts,   codependents,   arrogant-men,
      arrogant-women,  arrogant-children,  invulnerable-leaders,
      invulnerable-ones, isolated-humans, alienated-humans, etc.
      
           IN-THE-BEGINNING  God was  NOT  CONCEIVED  by:   Men,
      warriors,   women,   children,   Constantine,   Augustine,
      theologians,  managers, domineering-people,  business-men;
      nor was (or is) God revealed by such people.
      
           God  is  REVEALED by:   True-Lovers,   humble-people,
      people-cooperating-with-others,       acts-of-hospitality,
      civil-behaviors, true-peace-making, true-intimacy,  people
      who are free to be truly and gracefully vulnerable because
      ---
      
           True-Lovers do not want to be invulnerable; they want
      to  be mutually-vulnerable in true-intimacy which is well-
      balanced   all-the-way-around  Space-Ship-Earth  which  is
      truly-round  in all true-and-authentic-ways  of  Being-In-
      Love.
      
           What  kinds  of people will disagree with  the  above
      statements?  True-Lovers?   Domineering-People?   Know-IT-
      ALL people?  Humble-Lovers?  Arrogant-Dominators?
      
           Of   what   relevance  is   the   modern   scientific
      discernment  that the best way of making sense of all  the
      available  existential-evidence ---  is to  conclude  that
      IN-THE-BEGINNING the whole-cosmos was in a state of UTTER-
      CHAOS?   Is that scientific discernment best:
      
             1.  Ignored?
               2.  Denied?
                 3.  Denigrated?
                   4.  Repressed?
                     5.  Suppressed?
                       6.  Dismissed?
                         7.  Complemented?
                           8.  Integrated?
                             9.  Worshipped?
                               10.  Idolized?
      
           What  do  we  affirm  about the  ultimate  nature  of
      reality  when we affirm any one  of the above ten possible
      responses?     What other possible responses  might  merit
      more respect, than any one or few of the above responses?
      
                               Shalom!
      
                               (c) 2004 by Paul A. Smith in
                            "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                          (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)
      
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