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%TRANSCENDING CONFRONTATIONS DEMANDS EITHER OR GODS 060808
%ABSOLUTE TRUTH SPLIT PARADOX IDOLATRY WORSHIP GOOD 060808
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     Under  what  circumstances  is it  truly  helpful  to
engage in confrontations which entail:

     1.  Demands to choose either of just two options?.
     2.  Confrontations which are not gracious or civil?
     3.  Behaviors which engender lasting animosity?
     4.  Determining who is superior and who is inferior?
     5.  Concentrating wealth/power into just one place?
     6.  Identifying who is evil and who is good?
     7.  Rank-ordering people into a pecking-order.
     8.  Giving privileges to a few at the expense of many
     9.  Eliminating mutual understanding and cooperation.
    10.  Making conformity the essence of integrity.

     Can  a  community  be civilized when it  accepts  the
above  kinds of confrontations as normal,  natural  and/or
inevitable?

     Be Graciously-Together in the Ways of Shalom!

                         (c) 2006 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                    (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)

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