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%ORGANIZE SYSTEMATIZE OVERVIEW COMPETE VIRTUE VICES 061125
 %FAITH COMMUNITY RELIGIOUS RITUALS DOCTRINES GOODS 061125
%ISOLATED EVIL PEOPLE IDEALS VALUES PRINCIPLES GODS 061125
 %PARADOXES IDOLATRY UNBALANCED EXTREMISM TERRORISM 061125
 %ALIENATION ESTRANGEMENT EXCOMMUNICATION POLARIZED 061125
%DICHOTOMY EITHER SIDE NEITHER ALTERNATIVE SPECTRUM 061125

     Each  Faith-Community has its own  favorite  Stories,
Parables,  Words,  Concepts,  Doctrines,  Rituals,  Songs,
Poetry, etc.  which  it  uses to  point  to  its  favorite
Clusters-of-VIRTUES;  and its own favorite ways to  Point-
With-Alarm toward its most despised Clusters-of-VICES.

     Favored-Clusters-of-VIRTUES are Mutually-Supportive.

     Despised-Clusters-of-VICES are mutually-Supportive.

     Opposing-Clusters are Despised by their Opponents who
view  Each-Other  in Opposing  Dichotomous-and-Polarizing-
Ways which Regularly-Generate:  Alienation,  Estrangement,
Confusion, Excommunications, Prejudices, Biases, Ignorance
and other Mutually-Debilitating Dysfunctional-Relations.

     Well-Integrated  People-and-Communities transcend the
above Tragic-Patterns  --- by Cooperating-in-Collaborative
works ---  to CLARIFY-and-AFFIRM what  are  the  Coherent-
Clusters-of-VIRTUES  which are  Essential-Foundations  for
Personal-and-Communal Integrations-and-Integrities.

     Well-Integrated  People-and-Communities also work  to
CLARIFY-and-UNMASK  what  are the  Incoherent-Clusters-of-
VICES which Regularly-Undermine Essential-Foundations  for
Personal-and-Communal Integrations-and-Integrities.

     Opposing-Domineering-People often  honor-each-other's
Vices-as-their-own-Virtues;     and   despise-each-other's
Virtues-as-their-own-Vices.    Their  Opposing-Domination-
Systems  help  to generate  confusion-and-prejudices  all-
around.

     True-Lovers  work  to  CLARIFY-and-AFFIRM  all of the
Coherent-Clusters-of-VIRTUES    which    are    Essential-
Foundations  for  Personal-and-Communal  Integrations-and-
Integrities.

     True-Lovers work to  CLARIFY-and-UNMASK  all of   the
Incoherent-Clusters-of-VICES   which   Regularly-Undermine
Essential-Foundations for  ESSENTIAL Personal-and-Communal
Integrations-and-Integrities.

     Given  the above convoluted circumstances ---  people
on opposing sides are bound to make mistakes in discerning
the True-Implications of what each other says and does.

     Domineering people  are  often  unable  to  recognize
and/or  admit  that they have made mistakes ---   and  are
unable  to  learn  the  essential lessons which  might  be
learned by meditating openly and  honestly upon the actual
consequences of the actual mistakes which they and  others
have been tragically led into making --- by simplistic and
often poorly-informed-idealism.

     Coherent   and   well-informed-idealism   takes-into-
account all-that-has-in-the-past Been-the-Bitter-Fruits of
--- and Tragically-Occasioned --- Alienative:

     1.  Arrogance,
     2.  Self-Righteousness,
     3.  Pretense,
     4.  Dishonesty,
     5.  Secrecy,
     6.  Hubris,
     7.  Dominant-Coalitions,
     8.  Power-Concentrations,
     9.  Wealth-Concentrations,
    10.  Unilateral-Decisions-and-Actions,
    11.  Prejudices and Systemic-Biases,
    12.  Unbalanced-Extremism,
    13.  Technocratic-Procedures,
    14.  Abuses of Vulnerable-People,
    15.  Attempts to Fulfill-Impossible-Goals.

     Domineering-People and Domination-Systems Are-Bullies
that  in Exclusive-Ways seek  to Gain-Advantages for their
Narrow-Special-Interests at-the-expense-of-others  who are
More-Vulnerable.  Distributive-Justice is their enemy! All
who work  to  Augment-Distributive-Justice are their Evil-
Enemies.

     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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