This is http://www.essayz.com/b0610081.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.} ========================================================== %PROTECT SELF OTHERS DOMINATION GOOD EVIL ISOLATED 061008 %DIFFERENT ENEMY DICHOTOMOUS POLARIZED CONTENTIOUS 061008 %SINCERE RELIGIOUS SELF SACRIFICE RIGHTEOUS FALLEN 061008 %ORIGINAL SINNER CREATIVE NON CONFORMISTS DREAMERS 061008 %FANTASIES VISIONARY INTIMATE OUT TOUCH SYMPATHETIC 061008 %CRAZY MENTALLY ILL ILLNESS SICK IMMORAL ILLEGAL IT 061008 What must we do to protect ourselves and each other from DOMINATION? 1. Recognize that "good" people have been and will be domineering in ways which are sincere, religious, and self-sacrificing. 2. Recognize that there are "good" theological- grounds for being DOMINEERING. 3. Recognize that there are "good" economic-grounds for being DOMINEERING. 4. Recognize that DOMINATION is affirmed as "good" by many variants of the Myth-of-Redemptive-Violence. 5. Recognize that people who believe in the doctrine of "Just-Wars" have blessed Unilateral-Wars-of-Liberation. 6. Recognize our own temptation to slip into the Tragic-Ways-of: Domination, Polarization, Dichotomization, Attack, Negation, Denigration, Coercion, Control, Commands, Demands, etc. 7. Recognize that the roots of our tragedies are in our incoherent ideals and values. Be Graciously-Together in the Many-Ways-of-Shalom. (c) 2006 by Paul A. Smith in "Search for Honesty and Integrity" (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================