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%REGARDING VIRTUES VICES AFFIRM DIALOGUE ACTION SEX 050507
 %INCARNATION STORY PARABLE SONG DRAMA POETRY SONGS 050507
%SOLOMON WISDOM SOPHIA TRUE LOVERS PRESENT ABSENTED 050507
%MATTHEW FOX BLESSINGS SPIRIT FLESH PERVERTED CHAOS 050507
  %LAWS ORDERS PRESCRIPTIONS PROSCRIPTIONS JUDGMENT 050507
%SINS EVIL RELATIONSHIPS RECONCILE EXCOMMUNICATE IT 050507

     As regards a virtue we may:

 1.  Affirm it verbally and/or via action/incarnation.
 2.  Affirm it in story, parable, song, drama or poetry.
 2.  Recognize it as present, absent or perverted.
 3.  Clarify, obscure, confuse or denigrate it.
 4.  Integrate it with or isolate it from related virtues.
 5.  Introduce it where it has been absent/wanted/needed.
 6.  Weave it into a relationship, community, dialogue.
 7.  Challenge its opposite and/or its perversion with it.
 8.  Relate it to some good/evil course of human events.
 9.  Relate it to an essential foundation for integrity.
10.  Recognize how it is related to other virtues/vices.

     As regards a vice we may;

 1.  Affirm it as being a virtue via actions/incarnation.
 2.  Affirm it in story, parable, song, drama or poetry.
 3.  Recognize it as present, absent or as a perversion.
 4.  Conflate it with or isolated it from related virtues.
 5.  Introduce it where it has been absent/wanted/feared.
 6.  Weave it into a relationship, community, dialogue,
 7.  Graciously challenge it with all opposing virtues.
 8.  Contrast it with the essential foundations for Love.
 9.  Expose/subvert it with Love's foundational integrity.
10.  Reveal how is is related to other vices/virtues.

     In  the  absence of recognitions of  the  inter-woven
roles of virtues-and-vices in our  lives-and-relationships
--- we cannot respond to them with creative integrity.

     More likely than not, we  will  become victims of the
unrecognized  absence-of-virtues  and  the   unrecognized
presence-of-vices   ---   and  so   contribute   to   more
demonstrations  of  each  kind  of  absence/presence   ---
without knowing what we are doing.

     More  likely  than not,  we will regard  virtues  and
vices as purely academic concepts,  detached from the real
world of our own actual human relationships within our own
neighborhoods,  families,  conflicts,  intimacies,  hopes,
yearnings, disappointments, frustrations, blessings, pain,
and fulfillments.

     Multi-national-corporations  are  not truly dedicated
to responding to our overall desperate situation; e.g., to
helping  us  to  make a humane difference;  they  seek  to
profit  from IT,  our overall desperate  situation.   They
pretend to be "persons"  with the rights of  persons;  but
without  the responsibilities of humane-persons.     There
pretense is overall disintegrative in tragic ways.

     Few secular political leaders are truly dedicated  to
responding  to our overall desperate situation;  e.g.,  to
helping us to make a humane difference;  they seek to gain
more power, influence and money from us.

     Few religious leaders  within major institutionalized
religions are truly dedicated to responding to our overall
desperate situation; e.g.,  to helping us to make a humane
difference;   they  seek to concentrate power,  wealth and
influence  so  that  they  can be dominant in  regards  to
doctrines, rituals, membership, ordination, power,

     Few scientific/technical leaders in institutionalized
centers   of  scholarship/research/technology  are   truly
dedicated  to  responding  to  our  overall  situation-of-
alienation;   e.g.,   to  helping  us  to  make  a  humane
difference;   they seek to  concentrate power,  wealth and
influence so that  they can  be  dominant  in  regards  to
setting   research,    publication,    engineering,    and
technocratic  priorities in the use/abuse of the  Natural-
Resources-of-Space-Ship-Earth   given  to  humane-kind  by
powers   which   transcend  our  systems  of:    analysis,
prediction,    planning,    manipulation,    control   and
domination.

     Read  Matthew  Fox's   book:   "Sins  of  the Spirit,
Blessings  of the Flesh,  Lessons for Transforming Evil in
Soul and Society".   It is rooted in centuries of writings
by diverse  peoples  engaged  in  a  variety of  spiritual
journeys, scholarships,  writings,  and  being  authentic.
Be true to yourself and others.

                         Be Shalom

                         (c) 2004 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                    (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)

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