This is http://www.essayz.com/b0508051.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.} ========================================================== %THE WAY SHALOM DEAL EVIL RELATION ALIENATION ALONE 050805 %ESTRANGE STRANGE MISUNDERSTOOD FRAME QUESTION FAME 050805 %HOSPITALITY CIVILITY GENEROSITY DISTRIBUTIVE LOVER 050805 %JUSTICE GRACE GENEROSITY SERVANT LORD KING DICTATE 050805 %UNILATERAL ARROGANCE SELF RIGHTEOUS SUPERIOR GOODS 050805 %EXPERT TECHNOCRAT VIOLENCE COERCION OVER POWER SEX 050805 In order for us to cooperate in doing anything which will help to reduce the amount of evil in the world --- we need to first cooperate in efforts to recognize and understand: 1. The nature of evil and its roots. 2 What increased evil, and what decreases evil. 3. The roles of blaming and faulting in evil. 4. The roles of guilt and forgiveness in evil. 5. Where evil can, and cannot reside; exist. 6. Fertile circumstances for evil to grow, whither. 7. How evil is sometimes concentrate, then explode. 8. What makes evil become weaker and powerless. 9. How talking about evil may make evil stronger. 10. How thinking about evil may make evil weaker. 11. How framing questions about evil may help us. 12. How framing questions about evil may alienate us. 13. The role of alienation in evil-relationships. 14. The role of reconciliation in healing evil ways. 15. The Way-of-Shalom contrasted to the Way-of-Evil. 16. The Ways Greed, Arrogance and Hubris Augment-Evil. 17. The Ways Grace, Humility and Love Mitigate-Evil. 18. The Ways Pride, Controls and Anger Augment-Evil. 19. The Ways Thanks, Hope and Trust Mitigate-Evil. 20. The Ways War, Violence and Suspicion Make-Evil. Evil often flows from our efforts to control and destroy Evil through the use of alienative technologies. Love often flows in ways which help to mitigate and heal Evil-Relationships in the Gracious-Ways of Shalom. Evil is not a substance we can get rid of, like dirt. We cannot get rid of evil by trying to be perfect. We cannot get rid of evil by trying to be superior. Identifying who is Most-Evil will not Mitigate-Evil. Violence-and-Controls are not means to Mitigate-Evil. Arrogance-and-Coercion do not help to Mitigate-Evil. Attempts to control perceptions and emotions fail. Attempts to control desires and hopes usually fail. Attempts to control impressions often augment evil. Attempts to avoid evil often augment evil-relations. Attempts to eliminate evil people yield tragic fruit. Evil-Relations cannot be healed through violence. Evil-Relations cannot be healed through coercion. Evil-Relations cannot be healed through arrogance. Evil-Relations cannot be healed unilaterally. Evil-Relations cannot be healed without-cooperation. Evil-Relations cannot be healed without-dialogue. Evil-Relations cannot be healed legalistically. Evil-Relations cannot be healed judgmentally. Evil-Relations cannot be healed via superiority. Evil-Relations cannot be healed technocratically. Evil-Relations cannot be healed by hired-hands. Evil-Relations cannot be healed by experts-for-hire. Evil-Relations cannot be healed by War-Lords. Evil-Relations cannot be healed by Terrorists. Evil-Relations cannot be healed by Official-Terror. Evil-Relations cannot be healed by Official-Votes. Evil-Relations cannot be healed by Official-Actions. Evil-Relations cannot be healed by Formal-Acts-Alone. Evil-Relations cannot be healed without Vulnerability Evil-Relations cannot be healed by Invulnerable-Ones. Evil-Relations cannot be healed by Dominant-Ones. Evil-Relations cannot be healed by Controlling-Ones. Evil-Relations cannot be healed by Arrogant-Ones. Evil-Relations cannot be healed by Unilateral-Ones. The-Way-of-Shalom Includes: Humility, Honesty & Grace The-Way-of-Shalom Includes: Generosity-and-Justice. The-Way-of-Shalom Includes: Distributive-Justice. The-Way-of-Shalom Includes: Confessions-Reconciled. The-Way-of-Shalom Includes: Generous-Hospitality. The-Way-of-Shalom Includes: Gracious-Civility-in-LOVE Be-Together in The-Way-of-Shalom. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in "Search for Honesty and Integrity" (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================