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%REFRAIN PARTICIPATE ALIENATIVE VIOLENT RITUALS SIN 061109
%SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY INVITATION JOIN GUN DUEL FAIR 061109
%TEST MANHOOD BULLY ATTACK INSULT DENIGRATE JUSTICE 061109
%PRETENSE DUE PROCESS JUDICIAL PROCEDURE GODS WILLS 061109
%FALSE CONFLICT RESOLUTION ELIMINATE ENEMY EVIL GET 061109
 %VIOLENCE COERCION DOMINATION SYSTEM ANALYSIS FAIL 061109

     True-Lovers  Find-Conceive-Create  ways  to  Refrain-
from-Participating    in    the   Violent-Rituals    which
Domineering-People are regularly  inviting  others to join
as participants.

     Some  think/feel that the invitations are  mandatory;
i.e., cannot be declined in any realistic and/or effective
way.    Of  course if  you treat such invitations as being
really mandatory;  there is no way to avoid  participating
in them.   In many Southern States in earlier times if you
were   invited  to  participate  in  a  duel   with   each
participant  having one gun,  with which to kill the other
in a "fair" way; many could not imagine any way to decline
the invitation with honor; until finally it became illegal
to  offer  and/or  participate in that  tragic  ritual  of
Simplistic-Idealists.

     How  is it that True-Lovers can  Find-Conceive-Create
ways  to  Refrain-from-Participating  in  modern  Violent-
Rituals which have not yet been made illegal or taboo?

     True-Lovers  know  through  experience  and  gracious
consideration ---  that the modern  Violent-Rituals  which
Domineering-People invite others to join in --- are tragic
rituals of Simplistic-Idealists who are:

 1.  Playing Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception.
 2.  In Greedy-Ways Concentrating-Power-and-Wealth.
 3.  Pretending that there are no more-integrative ways.
 4.  Unwilling to honor the authority of human experience.
 5.  Willing to sacrifice personal & communal integrity.
 6.  Willing to sacrifice honesty & authenticity.
 7.  Willing to sacrifice civility & hospitality.
 8.  Willing to sacrifice distributive-justice & love.
 9.  Willing to sacrifice fellowship & coherence.
10.  Willing to sacrifice balance & mutuality.
11.  Willing to sacrifice cooperation & collaboration.
12.  Willing to sacrifice Shalom --- to Create-Peace.

     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)

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