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%RIGHTS WRONGS ETHICS MORALITY RELIGION GOD HEAVENS 070112
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     Teachings  regarding:   ethics,   morality,   rights,
wrongs, good, evil, religion, God, heaven, hell, etc.  ---
have   often  emphasized  Isolated-Particular:    actions,
rituals,  beliefs,   etc.   which are to  be  required  or
forbidden;   either/or  ---   with   Sanctions-and-Rewards
Prescribed-in-Great-Detail.

     The  above  ways  of approaching our  need  for  some
regulation  of extremes of human behavior  ---  tragically
encourage  some  of the extremes of human  behavior  among
those  people  who try to regulate  the  extremes;   e.g.:
domination, controls, micro-management,  excommunications,
crusades,    addictions,   perfectionism,   purifications,
polarizations, dichotomies,  etc.

     We  Would-Do-Better   and  More-Often   Enjoy-Shalom-
Together ---  were we to Seek-to-Mitigate The-Extremes-of-
Our-Human-Behaviors in terms of Less-Sharply-Drawn:

     guidelines,   boundaries, suggestions,   role-models,
demonstrations, principles, values, ideals, . . . .

     which  would Point-US-Toward:   attitudes,   desires,
hopes, beliefs, expectations, concerns,  anxieties, fears,
warnings,  perspectives, view-points, . . . . Which-Merit-
Joint-Sympathetic:    consideration, meditation, dialogue,
honor,  and perhaps even reverence ---  and Point-US-Away-
From Those-Which-Entail Great-Dangers.

     We need to be Warned-About-The-Dangers-Inherent in:

     1.  Arrogance,
     2.  Self-Righteousness,
     3.  Alienations,
     4.  Excommunications,
     5.  Airs-of-Superiority,
     6.  Implications-of-Inferiority,
     7.  Unilateral-Actions,
     8.  Hubris,
     9.  Domination,
    10.  Polarizations,
    11.  Dichotomizations,
    12.  Concentrations-of-Power,
    13.  Concentrations-of-Wealth,
    14.  Concentrations-of-Luxuries,
    15.  The formation of Political-Coalitions,
    16.  The formation of Religious-Coalitions,
    17.  The formation of Corporate-Coalitions,
    18.  Trusting-Technologies-and-Technocrats,
    19.  Trusting-Absolute-Truth(s),
    20.  Trusting-Well-Known-Gods,
    21.  Patterns of Exclusivity,
    22.  Patterns of Manipulations,
    23.  Patterns of Segregation,
    24.  Simplistic-Judgementalism,
    25.  Invulnerability,
    26.  Technocratic-Security,
    27.  Technocratic-Certainty,
    28.  Total-Objectivity,
    29.  Total-Subjectivity,
    30.  Avoiding-Reflexivity.

     We  need to be warned about how the dangers  inherent
in the above are ALL Inter-Dependent with each other.

     We  need to have pointed out to us how the advantages
inherent in complementary-virtues are ALL  Inter-Dependent
with each other.

     We need to have pointed out to us how the  advantages
and   dangers  inherent  in  ALL-OF-THE-ABOVE  are  Inter-
Dependent  upon  each  other  --- in  complex  ways  which
simpletons  cannot  perceive  with  any  clarity  ---   an
additional  hazard which we need to  cooperate  with  each
other to deal with in adequate ways.

     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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